why has nobody done this before....

Beater

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so for a long time I looked and looked for a nice sks scope mount that looks the part, is nice and low, AND WORKS, and there isn't one out there as far as I'm concerned. they are all super high and stupid with screws on the edge that snag on everything or like the long waratec ones are so long I can flex it 1/8" so easy . just not tough enough for me. so along the road to figuring out something better, I found that the weaver 74 rail fits the top cover very well. so if your top cover is tight, it works only ok. still to much movement tho.

thought about it and thought about it, and came up with this idea



good idea, get a spare topcover, save the original, drill and tap that hole in the back, get a grubscrew and bingo . tighten it up against crosspin and it works prity good. but still not perfect it can still move some. still not happy.
so today I'm bored in the shop, and pissed off my fance 200$ sks wont hold zero, and get an idea. here is the idea, don't think anyone has done this yet



drill two holes on the under side right through the receiver into the back of the topcover. not much meat there, but just enough for 2 6-48 screws. tap the topcover, and countersink the holes, so no wood needs to be removed from the stock.althou a wandering drillbit will teach me to centerpunch the next one.



nice and clean.



so all happy with myself, yes there is now 2 extra holes in the rifle, but nobody is going to know.
yes you have to take the gun out of the stock and take the screws out to dis assemble it,this particular rifle sees no corrosive, but even if it did its not a big deal.
ok snugged up the screws put it back in the stock headed out the door with 60 rounds and tested it out. no paper shooting but I have a special rock at 100 and it took a beating today. I'm very very happy it sure holds zero and looks awesome. I love the holosun it works great for dog hunting, but now I'm going to have to put a decent scope on this and try it on the paper to see how good it will actually do. I selected this sks for bore condition to build this, and it should do very well I hope if my rock shooting today is any indication

 
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I'm working on a different approach because I find that the limitations of the receiver cover doesn't allow for proper forward mounting required of most scopes.

Right now my work bench has about a dozen variations, some homemade and some store bought. All have been cut up or ground down or simply used for parts.

The hard part is the removable and back to zero requirement. I think for the prototype I will skip that part so that I can ensure ejection and loading and worry about modifying to allow ease of removal and re-attaching.

I like what you did Beater and the obvious thought that you applied to your design.
 
yes I'm sure the zero thing will be decent but will have to be tweeked once the cover comes off. frankly I'm allright with that because I don't run corrosive in this rifle, so it shouldn't have to come off for a while. its to windy today to put up paper, but I'm confident that this will be good.

I understand what you are saying, ive tried lotsa different things aswell. my goal mainly was to have a rifle that you could put back to millspec aswell. so take a standard un molested sks and do this, nobody knows when you put it back to millspec.

get a spare topcover an away you go.
 
warrenlikesboats said:
Drill tap a side rail to the receiver and your DONE. The solution to any SKS optic mounting problem.
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ive used the side rails, dislike them as they are all to high. got some ugly ass holes in the side of my receiver to . then usually you have to cut up the wood aswell no sorry not a fan of the sidemount. that is a timbersmith thumbhole
 
Your title caught my attention. I thought it unlikely that there was any idea that someone else had not already done.

To anchor the cover solid, just remove the lever from the side and tap the holes across with a 1/4" tap. I wanted to use a nice black bolt but could not find one the day i did this, so just used an ordinary bolt and because it was a bit too long, I put a nut on the end of it. Lots of meat in there and this holds everything solid. This was not a new idea. I copied it from someone else here.

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