Thanks FredC for mentioning about the S & K No drill scope mounts which are made for a variety of older military style rifles. I also have one on my Dad's re-barreled (.30-06) Karab. 98b Mauser. They are still being manufactured by S & K Scope Mounts LLC, 70 Swede Hollow Road, Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania Zip 16350. Their phone number (800) 578-9862 . Here's a link to their website :    (You need to Login

Below is a photo of my Dad's old Mauser with a no-drill S & K Scope Mount just to show how one looks on a different style of rifle

About 25 years ago and I had started discussed taking a guided hunting trip for Caribou in Quebec. That winter without him knowing it I sneaked it from their summer condo and had it re-barreled for him with a Douglas Air Guaged barrel and then I modified the original stock, by adding a recoil pad, a burled walnut fore end and grip cap, glass bedding the receiver and free floating the barrel. Then I checkered the stock and used an S & K Scope mount to put a nice scope on it (Not the one that's currently on it). By the time I was done with it and was able to present it to him as a  gift for him to take on our Caribou hunt he had suddenly encountered such serious health problems that the docs wouldn't permit him to take such aa trip. Still bums me out to think about it. If I had only started it a couple of years sooner..... Looking at it now, the forestock appears so thin I probably should have put one of FredCs barrel bands on it. 

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