An honest rifle

[jjohnwm]

Guys, guys! My issue is not Weaver rings! My issue is with Weaver pivoting “Tip off” rings as pictured in the OP. These are a totally different can of worms than a standard set of Weaver rings. Standard Weaver rings work fine, albeit with a tendency to leave marks on your scope tube and I personally find them about as ugly as sin.

Guntech, we are both on the same page!!

Oops! Just goes to show that one should re-read a thread when they return to it and post something...and I didn't do that. I was talking about plain ol' regular Weavers. I've only had one gun that ever had those flip-over hinged things, and they didn't work very well for me at all.

To quote Emily Nitella: "Never mind..."

 

[guntech]

With Weaver pivet rings as pictured often they would loosen when piveted... or get too tight... I found the best I could do was lubricate the mating surfaces with Never-Sieze compound, put blue Loctite on the two pivet screws and tighten them firmly... and leave it alone until the next day... then do a test pivot... and hope ...

 

[Mulletard]

That rifle, an FN in 7x57....I bought it and knew the blueing was worn. But not as bad as it is in person. Has a u shaped tang chip I glued back down (not disclosed to me after I asked of course) Looks like its bedded with epoxy resin, sloppily.

And man does it shoot well. With a fixed 4 miroku scope I threw on waiting for my better one to arrive. I can smack my gong laying prone from the driveway with crazy repeatability and thats around 270 yards. Throws 150 noslers at 2830ish fps. Has a great factory trigger on it. FN actions are what all m98 actions should aspire to be, smooooth! Haven't even bothered to change the scope either. Its like a comfy pair of jeans now.