I saw a whole lot of those when they came to Canada.
Alan Lever purchased 50 out of the first batch and they were all freshly refurbed with matching numbers and accessory kits.
There were two slightly different versions that I saw at the time.
One had an identical scope to that on the OP's rifle and the other had a much different scope with adjustment rings, rather that turrets.
We just picked through for the best of the best, all were close to excellent in the sale, but some didn't have matching numbers and were put together by the Swedes to fill out the sale. Many of the rifles with mismatched numbers had bores that were still acceptable but I believe they had been sent back to the armory for an FTR and just didn't get finished.
I was lucky enough to get my pick from the pristine rifles and chose the 3X scope with the non traditional adjustment rings.
My rifle shot very well, then for no apparent reason would change point of impact. Not enough to worry about under 300yds but for longer shots, in the field, it would be enough for a miss.
I lived with the problem for a few years and was lucky enough to meet a gentleman at a DCRA shoot that had trained and worked on these rifles.
The cause of the POI change was the fit between the rails on the side mount and the scpoe bracket.
The lever is supposed to jam the two contact points, which are slightly wedged, together in a manner they can't move.
This is all fine and well, if the surfaces aren't worn or damaged.
Your rifle may or may not develop this issue.
There is a simple fix, but you need to be extremely careful.
First, it depends on what the issue with the rail mating is.
If it's just a ding or a sharp edge, that can be carefully stoned out.
The second issue is what my rifle had, the mating surfaces were worn unevenly and this caused the scope to shift. Only slightly and always so the POI moved 2-3 inches at 200 yards, left and high.
The fix for this would have been to completely replace the base mount and bracket with a new unit and renumber it to the rifle, which would have happened if it were still in Swede service.
To fix the rifle I had, the rails had to be peened to slightly expand the metal oversize, then stone the mating surfaces back so they would mate up and stay in position when the locking lever jammed them into place.
Hopefully, your rifle won't need this fix. Most didn't and even the units with mixed number bases/brackets were solid.
My rifle liked specific handloads.
It shot 160 grain, cupro-nickel, with exposed lead bullets extremely well. It shot 140 grain vld acceptably.
My rifle didn't shoot surplus Swede ammo any better than any of my other rifles, no matter the type or bullet weight.
I’ll post how it shoots next week.
