Finally, a brief tater tosser update. With hunting and Christmas out of the way and me gaining some spare domestic time for finally cleaning out the basement, I managed to get around to yanking the scope, rings and mounts apart. Turns out nothing was really torqued down with any force and one of the forward mounting screws was even loose. That ought to teach me to check everything over with a torque screwdriver when buying a used gun, but further cements my belief that this thing was possibly never fired by the previous owner.
Then it was off to WSS to check out the mount and rings department. After some brief comparisons it was determined that we didn't know what the hell this mount was designed for (Winchester 70 seemed sorta close) and it had probably had some minor modifications made to fit the action. Luckily, the base itself is in good shape and turns out this old Browning mount is essentially the same as a Burris or Leupold. I wound up leaving with bases and a set of medium rings for a Weatherby that happened to have all the miscellaneous screws and bits I needed. She now sits all back together downstairs, windage adjusted the best I can get it bore sighting across my downstairs with the rings lapped and awaiting new glass. More to come when I have enough spare change to buy a decent low power optic. I was thinking of a Zeiss Terra 2-7x? Thoughts on that appreciated but it's near the top of my budget at around $500. Final pick might depend what I can get a good deal on, as per usual.
