Redoing scope mounts

[boyou]

Hi guys,

If I've got an old rifle which is drilled and tapped for scope mounts, but the mounting point is damaged on the action, can a smith fix that?

Can they fill and re-drill the mounting point or something along those lines?

[disko]

I don't know if they do, but they can fill damage metal with weld, grind it down to the original shape and work over it again.

I'm just talking general metalwork there though from other things I've seen, don't know about a rifle action specifically sorry.

[Swarm]

Why not just drill/tap new mounts a cm further up/down from the existing mounts.

I seriously doubt anyone would bother with "fixing" them.

[Blackened]

Why not just drill/tap new mounts a cm further up/down from the existing mounts.

This.

You're over thinking it. It would be far less work and a better result to just do new mounts a fraction forward/backward and your scope/eye relief dictates.