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Ned Butts KCA Forum Admin KCA Official Member Offline Krag enthusiast! Posts: 525 Location: western catskills NY Joined: Apr 1^st, 2002 Gender:	side plate scope mount May 27^th, 2020 at 1:08am	Print Post
	A few basic pictures (You need to *Login* to view media files and links) (You need to *Login* to view media files and links) (You need to *Login* to view media files and links) (You need to *Login* to view media files and links) 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


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Tom Butts KCA Forum Admin KCA Official Member Offline Krag enthusiast! Posts: 347 Location: New York State Joined: Apr 1^st, 2002 Gender:	Re: side plate scope mount Reply #1 - May 28^th, 2020 at 1:30am	Print Post
	I put a dot sight on the one we built for me. That is working well.


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Whig KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1324 Location: Balt MD Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: side plate scope mount Reply #2 - May 28^th, 2020 at 10:52pm	Print Post
	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.


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FredC KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 759 Location: Dewees, Texas Joined: May 31^st, 2013 Gender:	Re: side plate scope mount Reply #3 - May 29^th, 2020 at 2:18pm	Print Post
	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.


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Whig KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1324 Location: Balt MD Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: side plate scope mount Reply #4 - May 29^th, 2020 at 4:02pm	Print Post
	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. (You need to *Login* to view media files and links)


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carbon outlaw KCA Forum Member Offline carbon outlaw Posts: 209 Joined: Jul 4^th, 2014	Re: side plate scope mount Reply #5 - Jun 2^nd, 2020 at 10:41pm	Print Post
	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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carbon outlaw KCA Forum Member Offline carbon outlaw Posts: 209 Joined: Jul 4^th, 2014	Re: side plate scope mount Reply #6 - Jun 2^nd, 2020 at 11:04pm	Print Post
	something like this ..


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Whig KCA Official Member Offline Krag Enthusiast! Posts: 1324 Location: Balt MD Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: side plate scope mount Reply #7 - Jun 3^rd, 2020 at 12:02am	Print Post
	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.


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