Mounting Scope on Sharps 1874

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I have (2) 1874 Sharps reproductions and I want to mount a 18" vintage brass scope (see pic) I have to one of them. Anyone have mounting suggestions that would give me a little more height than what the scope comes with?

I like the HiLux Side Scope Mount Kit but can't find it here in Canada and US dealers won't ship.

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I would recommend the setup from Montana Vintage Arms. It doesn’t look clunky and is very efficient to use. I don’t know how they would work with another make of scope. You could call them and find out. What vintage of scope?
 
Just a warning . When mounting a scope on any of the straight stocked SS rifles such as Sharps or RB that the higher you mount it the less stable your cheek weld to the stock becomes and a "repeatable shooting posture" is harder to maintain. Those tube scopes are far from "parallax free" and a minute' change in head/neck posture will change your eye position line-up with the scope.
 
Short Knife Johnson said:
I would recommend the setup from Montana Vintage Arms. It doesn’t look clunky and is very efficient to use. I don’t know how they would work with another make of scope. You could call them and find out. What vintage of scope?
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It is a 18" Tasco Brass 1903 reproduction 4 x 15

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If the tube is 3/4" you could probably use the MVA B5 mounts with the grasshopper spring, or the DZ Arms mounts with one of their Pope rib add-ons. Either would give you more elevation, with the DZ giving the most by far. Both companies make excellent stuff. I use both on my rifles. My first Sharps was a Pedersoli and I mounted one of the Hi Lux Malcolm scopes on it. I can't recommend their mounts. The ones on mine were very poorly made.

Chris.
 
Until I got a set of the MVA mounts for my pal to put on his Pedersoli Sharps - he had the long Malcolm-style scope - he was trying with total lack of success to get the Pedersoli-provided mounts - front and rear - to operate in a manner befitting their upper-crust pricing here in UK. The MVA set worked instantly and properly in every respect, even with that cr^ppy scope that fogged in cooler weather and had pretty-coloured rainbows all round the image, especially when viewed in any kind of sunlight He ended up getting the MVA version, which is what I had recommended to him in the first place.

He finally figured out why so many BPCR shooters use MVA products, and not Pedersoli's.
 
Not to sound like a snob, but Pedersoli sights are just piles of garbage. Everything I have gets full MVA sets. They’re a great product made by great people. Close second would be Kelly and Lee Shaver.
 
as Short Knife said MVA is a great product anything else is a beginner sight or mount and you are just wasting your money and going to get pissed when things are not great.

some people give up and in a fit of frustration sell it off before even getting it to reach its shooting potential.
 
if you want a Hi Lux 6x or other Italian stuff check epps page under the accessories there is a bunch of sights and a long tube scope with mounts.
 
I contacted DZ Arms last week and spoke with the owner Dan Zimmerman. He told me they do not ship any product to Canada and do not have any distributors up here. Apparently they shipped a scope to a Canadian customer and it was impounded by US Customs, he was threatened with $10,000.00 fine because apparently he was breaking some US export regulation.

I will be contacting Montana Vintage Arms this week about mounts.

I do have a Hi Lux 6X 18" scope with mounts that is currently being installed on my Uberti 1885 Highwall and as I indicated I want to mount the Tasco brass scope on a 1874 Sharps Sporting rifle (repro) I recently acquired, the mounts it came with have it sitting too low. My gunsmith suggested he could machine a couple of custom bases that would give me the clearance I need.

Thanks to everyone who commented the feedback is appreciated.

Retreever
 
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You can use an importer like Prophet River. Optics and parts for them will cost you a $50 fee.

It must be a pretty new thing that MVA won't ship directly to Canada ( but I'm not surprised ). DZ Arms ran into the same situation a few years ago and have the same policy. The last scope I bought from them went through Prophet River and it went quite smoothly.

Chris.
 
gunlaker said:
You can use an importer like Prophet River. Optics and parts for them will cost you a $50 fee.

It must be a pretty new thing that MVA won't ship directly to Canada ( but I'm not surprised ). DZ Arms ran into the same situation a few years ago and have the same policy. The last scope I bought from them went through Prophet River and it went quite smoothly.

Chris.
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Thanks Chris
 
cdnrokon said:
The border police shut down MVA scopes??
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NOT MVA, DZ Arms - I talked with the owner Dan Zimmerman and he said they were no longer shipping product to Canada because he had a scope he was shipping to a client in Canada seized by US Customs apparently it was against a US Export regulation and he was advised they could have fined him $10,000.00. The only way he said I would be able to buy one of his products is to go through an importer.

Retreever
 
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PLEASE NOTE - CORRECTION - it was DZ Arms I was speaking with last week NOT Montana Vintage Arms in regards to shipping scope mounts to Canada , I will be editing my earlier posts to correct this.

Retreever
 
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