I installed one of those Badace mounts for a scout scope, but after a few years I'm returning the original sight back in.....forgot how much of a pain this process was haha. Thanks so much for your video-helped me get it back in
Caldwell Lead Sled works great on my bench for working on and shooting from. On the yugoslavian m48 mauser I have been restoring it came without rear sight leaf and spring . I strapped the gun in the lead sled. Tapped the spring in place. Laid the sight leaf on the spring and pushed down with my left hand with a blade screw driver pushed down on spring end while holding the sight at an angle and wiggled a little it popped in place (disclaimer:you're results may vary
What punch are you using again? I don't want to bugger up my Grandfathers Mauser. I have been tapping with a 1/16" punch and it wont seem to budge. Any other tips to remove that pin? It is actually a 1908 Gew 98 that was refitted with the Spitzer k98 sights and the shorter barrel by the Wehrmacht during WWII.
Hmm, sorry I am not familiar with those sight ladders, but maybe you have a pin inside another cylinder of metal? I have disassembled a dozen or so 1909s and the carbines sight ladder looks like a pin but are kind of a C clamp / cylinder with a pin inside them and too large of a punch won't get the pin out. I had one that broke and I think it was because someone banged on the C clamp ring instead of the pin. Wishing ya the best and curious so let me know if you find a good solution? thanks.
Dad, just curious as to why you would go to all the trouble of removing the base, just to put it back on for the scope? Had one of those 09's back in the late 90's. Really nice, accurate rifle. I removed the rear sight and base, cut 4" off the barrel, drilled and tapped, and had the bolt reshaped to clear a low mounted scope. I hunted with it for probably 5 years or so. Basically 308 ballistics. Used Norma 150gr if memory serves. I had it mounted in a black ramline stock that was popular back in those days. It was a good gun. Marine Corps veteran here. Plt 203 USMCRD San Diego, March 1966,
Good point thank you! I guess I did not cover that well, but discussed in one of my other teardown vids. I removed sight ladder entirely on one gun and had to replace one ladder on another damaged one so did this particular vid, but The outfit that cut the barrel down in my other vides needed it removed to do the work. I personally wanted the LER (Long Eye Relief) model scope (9.75") so wanted the base mount method. I have one drilled/tapped with about 3.75" eye relief I used hunting last year and got a lot of scope shadow and difficulty acquiring target/focus/parallax where my LER gets me acquisition quick (my son is currently Marines at 29 Palms and he doesn't like the LER so guess it came down to personal preference 🙂). I haven't gotten around to my 3rd/final video with suppressor and will note there I got 8 point buck first shot out of this gun opening day in Michigan and more meat after that so have been wildly loving this one. I use Norma 174gr now and PPU 174gr for target extreme long range shooting (see my other vids) I've had great consistency at the 840 yard outdoor range at a friends property. For that range have been able to hit gopher sized targets out to 840 over and over - truly loving these 1909s and hoping more of that 7.65x53 ammo gets produced as it is getting harder to find. I'm now researching some BSA scopes and others for another drilled/tapped method on one of them, but need lots of tube travel due to length of this receiver. Not many scopes will fit a tapped 1909 due to short tube size. (talkative s.o.b. here, but hope that answered? haha)
I installed one of those Badace mounts for a scout scope, but after a few years I'm returning the original sight back in.....forgot how much of a pain this process was haha. Thanks so much for your video-helped me get it back in
Thanks much! It is nice to hear others had trouble like me...i removed one last week and actually had to rewatch my own vid haha
Thx for showing the reinstallation of the rear sight. Now I can do it on mine.
Caldwell Lead Sled works great on my bench for working on and shooting from. On the yugoslavian m48 mauser I have been restoring it came without rear sight leaf and spring . I strapped the gun in the lead sled. Tapped the spring in place. Laid the sight leaf on the spring and pushed down with my left hand with a blade screw driver pushed down on spring end while holding the sight at an angle and wiggled a little it popped in place (disclaimer:you're results may vary
What punch are you using again? I don't want to bugger up my Grandfathers Mauser. I have been tapping with a 1/16" punch and it wont seem to budge. Any other tips to remove that pin? It is actually a 1908 Gew 98 that was refitted with the Spitzer k98 sights and the shorter barrel by the Wehrmacht during WWII.
Hmm, sorry I am not familiar with those sight ladders, but maybe you have a pin inside another cylinder of metal? I have disassembled a dozen or so 1909s and the carbines sight ladder looks like a pin but are kind of a C clamp / cylinder with a pin inside them and too large of a punch won't get the pin out. I had one that broke and I think it was because someone banged on the C clamp ring instead of the pin. Wishing ya the best and curious so let me know if you find a good solution? thanks.
Dad, just curious as to why you would go to all the trouble of removing the base, just to put it back on for the scope? Had one of those 09's back in the late 90's. Really nice, accurate rifle. I removed the rear sight and base, cut 4" off the barrel, drilled and tapped, and had the bolt reshaped to clear a low mounted scope. I hunted with it for probably 5 years or so. Basically 308 ballistics. Used Norma 150gr if memory serves. I had it mounted in a black ramline stock that was popular back in those days. It was a good gun. Marine Corps veteran here. Plt 203 USMCRD San Diego, March 1966,
Good point thank you! I guess I did not cover that well, but discussed in one of my other teardown vids. I removed sight ladder entirely on one gun and had to replace one ladder on another damaged one so did this particular vid, but The outfit that cut the barrel down in my other vides needed it removed to do the work. I personally wanted the LER (Long Eye Relief) model scope (9.75") so wanted the base mount method. I have one drilled/tapped with about 3.75" eye relief I used hunting last year and got a lot of scope shadow and difficulty acquiring target/focus/parallax where my LER gets me acquisition quick (my son is currently Marines at 29 Palms and he doesn't like the LER so guess it came down to personal preference 🙂). I haven't gotten around to my 3rd/final video with suppressor and will note there I got 8 point buck first shot out of this gun opening day in Michigan and more meat after that so have been wildly loving this one. I use Norma 174gr now and PPU 174gr for target extreme long range shooting (see my other vids) I've had great consistency at the 840 yard outdoor range at a friends property. For that range have been able to hit gopher sized targets out to 840 over and over - truly loving these 1909s and hoping more of that 7.65x53 ammo gets produced as it is getting harder to find. I'm now researching some BSA scopes and others for another drilled/tapped method on one of them, but need lots of tube travel due to length of this receiver. Not many scopes will fit a tapped 1909 due to short tube size. (talkative s.o.b. here, but hope that answered? haha)
@@devildogdad answered very well. I'll check out your other vids too.
@@easttexan2933 thank you sir. Much appreciated
Thanks very helpful, I used this as a guide to install a ZF41 WW2 Repo “ scout scope “ on a K98k.
Semper Fi