Rutland lad
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I recently bought a Pulsar C50 digiscope to mount on my Mauser MO3. It sat too low on standard MO3 rings with the belly of the scope and the objective touching parts they shouldn’t.
So I had a picattiny rail fitted to a spare MO3 mount and set off happy as a pig in s@*t to use the scope. After Mike Dickinson had zeroed in in 3 shots (he was upset it took more than 2) I took it out in the field and settled in for a fun evening. I took a shot at a muntjac and had a clean miss. Now I won’t profess to be a sniper, but I don’t normally miss, so having taken stock I decided it was my fault, not being perfectly at one with the new scope. Next evening, an earlier shot at around 180m on a fallow produced a deer on the ground, but with a much lower shot placement than I’d intended.
Now I’m becoming a bit concerned. Check the tightness of scope rings - fine. But, there’s a tiny bit of movement between picattiny and MO3 mount. After investigation this proves to be the issue. I won’t bore up you with the details, but it’s a weakness I now understand fully.
Right - how to get a permanent fix to this issue. As many people have indicated on this forum, Steve Beatty at Ivythorn is a mine of information, and so are some personal contacts I’ve made via this site. I try two avenues - Mauser and Blaser high rings.
Mauser because they used to make a riser block that sat neatly between the mount and rings to give you extra height, and Blaser rings because I know they’ll give me height, but they mean drilling the mount from M4 to M5, and well ……they’re Blaser on a Mauser so this is a last throw of the dice. Mauser don’t make the riser blocks any more (nor the MO3) so spares are becoming rarer, but Archie promises me he’ll search the warehouse to see if there are any remaining.
This week he comes good - he’s found the riser blocks and he sends me them FOC !
I cannot thank him enough for putting the time in and sending me the items. I’m a real Mauser follower/aficionado, and it just proves what you get when you need their support. You get it.
Everyone has their own favoured maker, and I doubt these days there’s a ‘bad’ rifle out there, but this has been outstanding support and deserves my support and acknowledgment.
So I had a picattiny rail fitted to a spare MO3 mount and set off happy as a pig in s@*t to use the scope. After Mike Dickinson had zeroed in in 3 shots (he was upset it took more than 2) I took it out in the field and settled in for a fun evening. I took a shot at a muntjac and had a clean miss. Now I won’t profess to be a sniper, but I don’t normally miss, so having taken stock I decided it was my fault, not being perfectly at one with the new scope. Next evening, an earlier shot at around 180m on a fallow produced a deer on the ground, but with a much lower shot placement than I’d intended.
Now I’m becoming a bit concerned. Check the tightness of scope rings - fine. But, there’s a tiny bit of movement between picattiny and MO3 mount. After investigation this proves to be the issue. I won’t bore up you with the details, but it’s a weakness I now understand fully.
Right - how to get a permanent fix to this issue. As many people have indicated on this forum, Steve Beatty at Ivythorn is a mine of information, and so are some personal contacts I’ve made via this site. I try two avenues - Mauser and Blaser high rings.
Mauser because they used to make a riser block that sat neatly between the mount and rings to give you extra height, and Blaser rings because I know they’ll give me height, but they mean drilling the mount from M4 to M5, and well ……they’re Blaser on a Mauser so this is a last throw of the dice. Mauser don’t make the riser blocks any more (nor the MO3) so spares are becoming rarer, but Archie promises me he’ll search the warehouse to see if there are any remaining.
This week he comes good - he’s found the riser blocks and he sends me them FOC !
I cannot thank him enough for putting the time in and sending me the items. I’m a real Mauser follower/aficionado, and it just proves what you get when you need their support. You get it.
Everyone has their own favoured maker, and I doubt these days there’s a ‘bad’ rifle out there, but this has been outstanding support and deserves my support and acknowledgment.
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