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Scoping a Browning 22 auto

gravley
If you use the dovetail to attach the scope to the receiver be prepared for poor accuracy. The takedown lockup is just not tight enough. The barrel flexes just enough to cause the shots to be all over the target. This is the reason for the cantilever method that attaches to the barrel.
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  • Bill Jordan
    I've heard that, but, as it is not pre-drilled, I'm not looking for 40X Remington accuracy, either. I just want to see the target.
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  • gravley
    You can see the target just fine, you just can't hit it consistently.
    I would zero it in, then try to hit something and it would be all over the place. Took me a while to figure out the problem. Just don't expect too much if you do install the scope.
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  • nmyers
    Are you aware that the takedown lockup can be tightened?

    Neal

    EDIT: From the (old) owners manual:

    On one model the serrated ring located just forward of the breech end of the barrel is merely turned. First, remove the barrel from the stock-receiver portion of the rifle. Then, holding the barrel with the muzzle pointed away from you, turn the adjusting ringto the left (counter-clockwise) the space of one notch. An audible click will be heard for each notch the ring is turned. Reassemble the rifle & check for fit.

    On other models wherein the adjustment ring will not turn against click tension, proceed as follows: Remove the forearm by unscrewing the forearm screw. Push the barrel lock rearward far enough to enable the tooth on the barrel lock to clear the serrated notches in the barrel adjustment ring. Turn the adjusting ring the required number of notches. There will be no audible click on this model. Push the barrel lock forward in place so that its tooth locks in a serration of the adjusting ring. Replace forearm.
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  • dfletcher
    quote:Originally posted by nmyers
    Are you aware that the takedown lockup can be tightened?

    Neal


    Any tips or website info? I like mine alot, but I leave it assembled because unless the barrel nut is turned down tight as hell there's a little wiggle in it. I assemble it, the stud that clicks into place from barrel to receiver leaves a touch of play in it. I twist the barrel to one side, then sock down the barrel nut. I'd like just clicking that stud in place to hold the barrel in place left & right.

    Edit: The little annoyance I've run into is that the barrel lock lever, when pushed forward, doesn't entirely prevent "barrel wiggle" in the frame. There's just a touch of left & right room where the barrel lock clicks into the slot on the frame, that translates into movement for the barrel. Socking down the barrel nut (click variety) removes the wiggle but I'd prefer the barrel lock lever do that and the barrel nut not have to be torqued so tightly.

    If BBrowning sold a tool that slipped over the cuts in the barrel nut so that torquing it was easy to do - no vise grips & leather like I need now - that would be an OK 2nd place fix.
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  • gravley
    The best thing is just use the iron sights which are both on the barrel as it is a great shooter this way. I keep the barrel just as tight as I can and still get the notch to lock up.
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  • jeffb1911
    Browning and Weaver both made a mount that screwed to the barrel-should be a tapped hole in front and behind the rear sight. Cantilever type, comes back over the receiver, and the rear sight needs to be taken out of the slot, but it works.
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  • kimi
    Weaver and WIlliams made the three hole scope-base mounts. They were the Weaver No. 60, and the Williams No. TM 22.

    Added: Bill Jordan, refer to my initial post to you on this subject. This particular post was to simply pass on more information about scope-base mounts should someone have a Browing that was factory/after factory drilled with three-holes. Also, had you scoured the auctions recently, you might have found a 3/4" Browning 4X scope. Good luck on your quest.
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  • Bill Jordan
    Repeat; This gun is NOT D & T , so I'll try to get a decent dovetail mounted scope that is not more $$$ than I paid for the gun.

    I might get a 1" scope and screw the aesthetics.
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  • dfletcher
    quote:Originally posted by Bill Jordan
    Repeat; This gun is NOT D & T , so I'll try to get a decent dovetail mounted scope that is not more $$$ than I paid for the gun.

    I might get a 1" scope and screw the aesthetics.


    It's a bit of a different approach, but Taurus sells a short weaver rail with a dovetail attachment for their rimfire Model 63, 72 and such. I'd bet with a little fiddling you could get it to fit and be solid. Then attach the shortest, smallest 1" scope you can find.
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  • Bill Jordan
    Scouring the auctions yeilds a scope for more $$$ than it's worth to me.
    Thanks for the suggestions.
    Bill
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