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Help identifying an old scope base?
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:17 pm
by dpack
Not sure if this sub-forum is where this belongs.
I am pretty good and finding out what stuff is on the internet but this one has been fun. Anyone know exactly what it is or what it goes on?
Re: Help identifying an old scope base?
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 4:16 pm
by Jimro
That looks like a piece of surveying equipment to me, although the underside could be a European commercial Mauser mount (looks like a Dumoulin) it has the wrong screw hole pattern (one and one instead of the Mauser two and one).
So if I had to guess, it's a scope adapter for surveying equipment. In the Army we use things like that to sight in terrestrial satellite transceivers/receivers. Funny sighting in a million dollar piece of milspec gear with a cheap Tasco 3-9x40 scope, but it works.
Jimro
Re: Help identifying an old scope base?
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 4:51 pm
by dpack
I bet you are right about the transit mount. We had one that burned up in a fire and this got "saved" for some reason. Haha thanks for solving a mystery!