(My hobby includes getting the book written. I've written here for help in the past, and the aggravation outpaced the help to the point that I went to other forums, while keeping my eye on this forum. After the recent changes, I thought to try again for help.) I'm about to buy a Savage rifle in 308 Winchester for benchrest cast bullet shooting, and have been thinking about the scope. The Savage-and most other rifles-come with holes drilled in the front and rear receiver rings for scope bases. These will accept, for example, Weaver bases; and rings, fitting, are easy to find. For a good target scope, such as a Weaver T36, I'm looking at ~$450 for scope, mounts and rings. In the old days, at least some Remington and Winchester bolt action rifles were drilled for "scope blocks", for blocks that are made for mounting Lyman SuperTargetspot scopes and others. One block went on the front receiver ring, the second on the barrel. I'd like to use one of my Lyman STS scopes on this Savage rifle, without having any holes drilled in the barrel for the front block. Being completely without design ability, I can't figure out how to do this, or what the arrangement looks like. Ideally, there would be ?Weaver bases on the rifle. An adapter would fit on the Weaver bases, and would have scope blocks so that a Lyman, Unertl, Litschert, Davis, etc. scope would fit. And, wouldn't it be keen if there were an adapter that fit on scope blocks so that a scope with ?Weaver rings could be mounted. I'll send this to Steve Earle, but I'm hoping that someone here knows of an adapter or a design that will work. Thanks; Joe b.
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