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<blockquote data-quote="PillsburyDoughboy" data-source="post: 5868569" data-attributes="member: 14197"><p>Ive mounted hundreds of these in the past. It had to do with manufactures of gun engineers/manufactures not thinking through the process of mounting a scope and designing a gun. So frustrating for the end user of the gun to find out its hard if not impossible to mount a scope on it once you buy it. I know some guns that hit the market that scope companies took years to develop scope mounts/rings and bases and as you can see below it took specialty scopes to get the job done. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Here is a example of a FN Mauser action that required the hence longer tube in the back and a shorter tube in the front. A Longer Tube in the front would have interfered with the Rear Sight. Yes one could remove the rear sight on certain rifles with a removable rear sight but as you can see on this particular model it had a integral REAR base making it impossible to remove. Many Safari rifles of the time with Magnum bolts had extremely awkward bolt throws and hard to fit scope mounts. Picatinny rails were non existent and Weaver bases were deemed insufficient to hold up to recoil to heavy recoiling rounds in a safari rifle. Weatherby, FN, Sako, Browning and several other manufactures were all Guilty of making rifles that required these odd scopes of the time. They were most popular in the 70', 80s to late 90s.</p><p></p><p>I would imagine if anyone had any of these type of bolt guns that had this set up today they would simply use a high quality 1x4 or possibly 2x7 and be done with it.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/fine-rifles/bob-emmons-375-weatherby-mag-total-custom--fn-mauser-action--1-4-rib-with-integral-scope-base--qd-mounts--2-5-x-8-leupold--accurate-rifle--98--cond-.cfm?gun_id=101570412#lg-5[/URL]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/browning-rifles-bolt-action/browning-high-power-safari-30-06-springfield.cfm?gun_id=102623653#lg-3[/URL]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/american-custom-gunmakers-guild-rifles/caboth-kaufman-416-rigby.cfm?gun_id=102623240#lg-5[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PillsburyDoughboy, post: 5868569, member: 14197"] Ive mounted hundreds of these in the past. It had to do with manufactures of gun engineers/manufactures not thinking through the process of mounting a scope and designing a gun. So frustrating for the end user of the gun to find out its hard if not impossible to mount a scope on it once you buy it. I know some guns that hit the market that scope companies took years to develop scope mounts/rings and bases and as you can see below it took specialty scopes to get the job done. Here is a example of a FN Mauser action that required the hence longer tube in the back and a shorter tube in the front. A Longer Tube in the front would have interfered with the Rear Sight. Yes one could remove the rear sight on certain rifles with a removable rear sight but as you can see on this particular model it had a integral REAR base making it impossible to remove. Many Safari rifles of the time with Magnum bolts had extremely awkward bolt throws and hard to fit scope mounts. Picatinny rails were non existent and Weaver bases were deemed insufficient to hold up to recoil to heavy recoiling rounds in a safari rifle. Weatherby, FN, Sako, Browning and several other manufactures were all Guilty of making rifles that required these odd scopes of the time. They were most popular in the 70', 80s to late 90s. I would imagine if anyone had any of these type of bolt guns that had this set up today they would simply use a high quality 1x4 or possibly 2x7 and be done with it. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/fine-rifles/bob-emmons-375-weatherby-mag-total-custom--fn-mauser-action--1-4-rib-with-integral-scope-base--qd-mounts--2-5-x-8-leupold--accurate-rifle--98--cond-.cfm?gun_id=101570412#lg-5[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/browning-rifles-bolt-action/browning-high-power-safari-30-06-springfield.cfm?gun_id=102623653#lg-3[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/american-custom-gunmakers-guild-rifles/caboth-kaufman-416-rigby.cfm?gun_id=102623240#lg-5[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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