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Firearms >> Sporterized and unofficial modified Krags >> side plate scope mount http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1590541719 Message started by Ned Butts on May 27^th, 2020 at 1:08am

Title: side plate scope mount
Post by Ned Butts on May 27^th, 2020 at 1:08am

A few basic pictures

[img]https://i.imgur.com/9wBLPOib.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/DLf59Nu.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/sb9cDkym.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/rJVcDlam.jpg[/img]

started like this, I cut and ground to shape and had it welded to the side plate. rail needed a little tweeking to be "parallel" with the barrel. this is the prototype and I never got to refining it

Title: Re: side plate scope mount
Post by Tom Butts on May 28^th, 2020 at 1:30am

I put a dot sight on the one we built for me. That is working well.

Title: Re: side plate scope mount
Post by Whig on May 28^th, 2020 at 10:52pm

I've never seen a Krag with a dot sight on it. I think that would be a great shooting combination!

Thanks for giving me a future project to work on, Tom.

Title: Re: side plate scope mount
Post by FredC on May 29^th, 2020 at 2:18pm

Whig,
If you look at my old thread on my sporterized 35/40 it has a red dot sight. They are quick to get on target in heavy brush. Just the thing for pig hunting. Since mine has a 3 minute dot it will not let you shoot fine high scoring targets. Also mine does not work in moonlight at all. With my 4 power Weaver I could get one shot off on a pig in near full moon situations. Would take several minutes of setting the cross hairs on the pig then lifting so you could see them again. No contrast with black pigs and black cross hairs at night. Also the weight of the red dot is only a couple of ounces so recoil will have little tendency to move sight around.

Tom, pictures please. Would like to see yours also.

Title: Re: side plate scope mount
Post by Whig on May 29^th, 2020 at 4:02pm

That's one of the great advantages of a dot sight- quick target acquisition.

I remember my brother having an old Qwik Point red dot scope in the early 1970s. It used ambient light collected by a large red fiber optic and offset it to your view through a scope tube. The dot was superimposed over your target and it had a big red dot over the target.

Worked really nice but it was big and obtrusive. Pretty nice for early 70s, though.

I sold it when I got it from him years later. Seemed useless, then, but it would have been nice to have as a keepsake.

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Title: Re: side plate scope mount
Post by carbon outlaw on Jun 2^nd, 2020 at 10:41pm

I was look for a way to mount a scope on the side plate and came up with this idea ... I have a lot of Stith scope mounts and I found one that fits perfect and lines up straight it would be easy to drill and tap and mount these as a base for a side mounted scope base ... have a look ...

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Title: Re: side plate scope mount
Post by carbon outlaw on Jun 2^nd, 2020 at 11:04pm

something like this ..

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Title: Re: side plate scope mount
Post by Whig on Jun 3^rd, 2020 at 12:02am

That looks like it took a good bit of work but you did a nice neat job without damaging the Krag. Many extra side plates around to mount one of these to.

Good job. I like ingenuity.