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Originally posted by dpcd:
I love the 141s; had many and still have two.
First center fire rifle I ever fired.
I highly advise against drilling holes in one; that reduces the value by 50%. The owner needs to know this fact.
The reason your front one (recommended by Weaver) is so high is because it is supposed to be mounted on the barrel, another very strange and to me, bad idea.
I guess if you insist on it; you have the wrong bases. Obviously they need to be parallel to the bore. Do not drill into the locking shoulder in the receiver and drilling into the barrel threads is doing it the hard way. I have seen them drilled all over the receiver however.
Just get a piece of Weaver/Pinctinny base stock and put 3 holes in it. I am cringing now, though.
I admit I have never drilled one; it's sacrilege.

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The 14 and 141 did not come from the factory drilled and tapped for a scope. If you D/T, you will be impacting the collector value of the rifle, if that matters to you. I have some 14/141s that have been aftermarket D/T for scope mounts. No two are alike I once bought some Weaver bases off Ebay that were supposed to be for 14/141, or so the Weaver package said. But as I recall, they were not quite right. And none matched the holes in my rifles. There used to be scope mounts that were meant to be epoxied to SKS rifles. These would work with a little reshaping. Some people put both mounts on the receiver. This causes a couple of problems. First, you have to drill into a thin area in the locking recess. Second, the front mount will not be far enough forward for most scopes. This can be solved by using old Redfield Widefield scopes (because they have short eye relief) or compact scopes. IIRC, old Leupold M8s and newer Leupold compact scopes work. But please be sure to check them out for yourself first. Some people have solved the problem by D/T the barrel for the front mount. Unless someone posts an easy answer, I think you will have to pick bases that fit the receiver contour and then D/T the rifle for those bases. If your rifle is already D/T, figuring out which bases were originally used can be a frustrating challenge..

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Originally posted by clowdis:
I think you have the bases backwards. Turn them around (front to back) and have another look.

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Originally posted by Clemson:
Thanks for the suggestions. I really don't like the idea of the front base on the barrel, primarily because the barrel is tapered in front of the receiver, and I will be building in ring misalignment from the get-go. I think I will look for a piece of lightweight picatinny rail to see if I can get enough of it on the straight portion of the receiver to mount a pair of rings. It would save a great deal of effort if I can find a base that comes close to the rounded contour of the top of the Remington rifle. Alternately, I guess I could cantilever the front ring over the hump by using a somewhat thicker section of rail cut away on the bottom.

Bill

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Originally posted by Clemson:
Thanks for the suggestions. I really don't like the idea of the front base on the barrel, primarily because the barrel is tapered in front of the receiver, and I will be building in ring misalignment from the get-go. I think I will look for a piece of lightweight picatinny rail to see if I can get enough of it on the straight portion of the receiver to mount a pair of rings. It would save a great deal of effort if I can find a base that comes close to the rounded contour of the top of the Remington rifle. Alternately, I guess I could cantilever the front ring over the hump by using a somewhat thicker section of rail cut away on the bottom.

Bill

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Originally posted by dpcd:
That could certainly be made, but I read that the owner doesn't care.