I've attached some photos of the Gew 98 I own that has bases installed. I'm not sure if these were commercial or military. The cross hatching ornamentation makes me think commercial? I bought it because I spent years looking for a gunsmith willing to dovetail the receiver and eventually gave up. Unfortunately the rifle was missing a bolt so I've been using a K98icon bolt that I headspaced properly. Had no intention of modifying an original Gew 98 bolt for that purpose.

I have a pair of claw mounts that work very well with the bases and installed them on the Emile Busch scope in question last night. It required me to disassemble the scope but it went smoothly on my watchmakers bench. The elevation adjustment turret screws were rusted rock solid but under a microscope and using watchmakers oilers I was able to apply microscopic amounts of Kroil until they broke loose.

They required a thin brass shim to really tighten up but the end result was very nice albeit far too cloudy to be usable. I think I'm going to make the required spanner to remove the inner doublet for cleaning. I believe its referred to as the "picture reversal assembly?" Just looking to track down some canadian balsalm now as I'd rather not use any of the modern glues that are so unforgiving.

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