I have not yet received my new mosin that I ordered from Westrifle. I am however already thinking of a scope for it. I realize that under the rear sight there will be a 11mm dovetail to accept a rail. My question is what rail? I watched a youtube vid of a guy mounting a rail, and the rail was too long and he ended up having to cut the front stock for the rail to fit. I am not willing to cut my front stock to fit a rail. So who makes a rail short enough to fit the mosin without modification?
scoping a mosin
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I recommend purchasing an S&K mount, very easy to install and fits rock solid in your rear sight and the best part you can put your Rifle back to original...then just get yourself an long eye relief Scope and your all set.
You don't need a rail. There's lot of videos on YouTube about this. All you need to do is remove the pins that hold the rear sight base and tap it forward to remove it, then use 22 rimfire scope rings right on the dovetail the rear sight base is mounted on.
The trick is that you will want to put one of the scope rings where the retainer pin hole is and you use the retainer to keep the scope from moving forward under recoil by grinding a notch for the pin in the scope ring. Again Youtube has the video on this.
The trick is that you will want to put one of the scope rings where the retainer pin hole is and you use the retainer to keep the scope from moving forward under recoil by grinding a notch for the pin in the scope ring. Again Youtube has the video on this.
tungngroove2000
CGN Regular
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and i 2nd this idea......well well worth the $60 bucks or so. the only way to go.
Don't listen to all the bubas that just posted. As there is one rickshaw that made what you are diggen for but he post's on that other web site. Here as some of the pictures. It slips over the dovetail like you mentioned and you use the pins from the original iron sights and pop them back in. Stays rock solid and if there are any manufactures out there that want to make this design I will provided it free of charge but contact me for more details. Now to the picture show were it proves that u can use it as a scout mount with a regular handle or a regular optic with a bent handle.
smelly pete
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Nice bipod CrazyestCanuck! For you I'll post it up over here as well
For the OP, the mount is available out of the States legally, PM for details...Although the one above^ is the one you want based on your question, I think. On mine the cheekweld is just manageable, and only because the fixed 10x is easy on the eyes; anything else would require a riser, which I'll probably still add this winter. This mount is also drilled and tapped, so I've officially bubba'ed this Mosin...so I went ahead and got Peter at Rusty Woods to put a target crown on it as well, he did a superlative, timely job for a decent price. Between the crown, the Timney (Mystic Precision, again timely and reasonably priced), the pillars and the bedding, she shoots pretty good. Although I'd say the crown is the big one.Cheers to all my OC's that are still GN's,
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I have heard of people having problems with the 22 rings slipping with recoil. Most of the mounts you get have much more surface area to resist slipping, YMMV. There are several places that make mounts that replace the sights, dovetail to weaver conversions, and even purpose built mosin mount/ring solid pieces out there, even on ebay. Most will need a scout scope to use.
If you want to install a bent bolt that either drill and tap mounts or a jmeck mount seem to be the way to go.
