Read First Before Buy M14 RIFLE Generation SCOPE MOUNT
I bought this 3rd gen style scope mount cause it looks durable and it is. Mount is a very thick construction aluminum, but the dovetail block and knobs are steel. Of course, there is minor fitting of the dovetail steel block, but I suspect I could have just hammered it right on, but not adviseable, and also I had to scrounge up a washer for a spacer for the knob that screws directly into the receiver. Removing the stripper clip guide on the rifle in question, my norinco m14 sporter, entails driving out a very small roll pin, then using a hammer and brass drift to drive it out(very tight). Then one needs to install the dovetailed steel block of the mount, separately, and I found it easier to get it started in the dovetail if I took a small needle file and took a little metal off, so little amount its hardly worth mentioning. I jumped the gun initially and tried to bang it into the dovetail, I soon discovered that the block is softer steel than the receiver, and the receiver was just shaving it down and there was a danger of going in crooked, so I stopped and filed a little more and then drove it in, it wasn't easy cause I could have removed more metal, it was more difficult due to the norinco m14 sporter had a ridge of metal inside the dovetail bottom making things more difficult, but I didn't want to file the receiver. Anyway, I drove the dovetail block in the receiver dovetail, and it is in there tight, won't need to ever remove it for my uses, then I drove the supplied roll pin with the holes lined up. From there, its simple to just use the thumbwheels to screw it tight but I had to use a washer as a spacer with the supplied wavy washer on the knob that screws directly into the receiver but I ended up having to file the length down just a bit, but one could in theory not use a washer and just file or dremel the shaft to length(otherwise it interferes with the bolt on the inside), but it's no big deal and probably rifle particular if you have this minor fitting activity, there is ample room to use the rear sight aperature of the rifles' sights if needed up to about 300-400 meters. I will end up using green loctite, the strongest, cause I don't needing anything ever coming loose, ever, though with this sort of scope mount I doubt it would be suspectible to loosening without any loctite of any color/grade.
I ordered with this order some medium height see through rings, why the see through, well, just in case they didn't work for this project and had to go on a different rifle, and the height is just great for a 3x9x40 with long rear adjuster bell, it allowed the 40mm scope to lie nearly above the rail with some space so the scope could be positioned further on back, so I figure if you are using a larger front bell than 40mm, its possible you might need a "tall" set of rings, unless the bell is ahead of the front of the mount rail, all depending on your length of buttstock, mine is one of those surplus brown US military fiberglass stocks, and I will need to add a cheek pad somewhat, likely a blackhawk brand.
All this takes like I said is about thirty minutes and a few tools, oh sure, a smaller file is needed, maybe if I would have went to my tool box in my shed to get a triangular file, that would have been the file to use, a hammer, a wooden dowel or definitely a brass drift, being careful not to drive over the threaded portion of the steel block, cause once again, the steel is not ultra hard, nor does it need to be or should be, cause it eliminates any chance of receiver damage. As most sportsmen or folks who are experienced with guns can attest, if ya can't pick up a file, a hammer, a brass drift and do a little fitting of your gun, then have a gunsmith do the work for you since they are experts, but most gun long time gun owners are already used to doing minor fitting work when they learn that gunsmiths are busy people, with month and a half to two month or more turn around times, AND THAT IS WHY most home gun enthusiasts are experienced with minor fitting of scope mounts, and accessories, I even had to "fit" seven brand new military grade KCI South Korean 20 round mags to my norincos cause there are so many variations in m14's/m1a's out there, a good number of companies over the decades have put together their versions of the rifle.
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