A New Scope Mount For Older Savage 112s

I had three Savage Model 112 rifles to mount scopes on, one long action and two medium actions. All three are older single shots and very accurate as target and varmint rifles. Earlier I had attempted to mount two-piece bases on one of the medium action rifles and couldn’t reach reticle optical center until I milled 0.050 inch from the flat rear base. While the problem was likely due to how the actions produced at that time were made, it was real and had to be dealt with.

This required fitting both bases with bedding material to attain coaxial ring alignment. Fitting EGW Picatinny Bases Evolution Gun Works Picatinny bases are American made and come with four different length 6-48 Allen head base screws. The two shorter screws are made for the front base and are torqued to a recommended 20 inch/pounds. It is always best to The base is also available in 20 MOA for longer range shooting. be sure the receiver is clean and the scope bases be free of imperfections.

On this particular one-piece base I cut about an inch off the front, even This is one of the few available one piece bases made for the Model 112 Savage rifle with a flat rear receiver bridge. Four number 6-48 Allen head screws are used here. with the receiver ring, just forward of the front base screw hole. With the bases in position I used a pair of Leupold’s very well made

As described in text, pointers show good preliminary alignment of the rings. one-inch PRW high rings. These rings have lift-off caps attached with four Torx screws in each cap. I used Brownells sleeved scope alignment rods to check the coaxial alignment of this setup and it checked out as right on. As is not well known about these sleeved alignment rods, they indicate alignment in two ways.

The preliminary test shows how the two pointers align while the more accurate test of alignment is precisely shown only when the longer of the two rods enters the opposing sleeve. It is entirely possible for the two pointers to touch with one scope ring pointing left and the other pointing right or vice versa. This is actually why the sleeved alignment rods were designed in this way and it’s one heck of a feature.

Conclusions It’s good to have a source of wellmade scope bases—made in the USA—that fit such a wide variety of guns at a reasonable price. These This is a Sightron target scope mounted with Leupold PRW high rings on an EGW Picatinny one-piece tactical base. particular Savage tactical scope bases, as are most of EGW’s other mounts, are also available with twenty minutes of angle elevation (forward cant) built in as optional. For more information on Evolution Gun Works Inc. contact egw-guns.com. AG