30 Carbine Scope Mounts

[The Grand Baboon]

Hey guys, I've seen this discussed elsewhere, but I have some questions that were not answered in other forums.

I have an older 30 carbine (Korea era) made by what seems to be Inland (the rear sight is in the way) with a serial number of 662971.

I'm trying to find a rear scope mount that will fit the rifle. All the scope mounts I've found on Amazon seem to need a screw that fits down into the receiver
(see http://www.amazon.com/Barska-AW11149-BARSKA-Carbine-Mount/dp/B001M5TSJQ/ref=lh_ni_t )

Would you guys know how to install a mount on this thing? Would pictures be needed?

Thanks

 

[TIMC]

I have a B-Square mount on my Universal carbine that has worked well for years. I had the reciever tapped and it is screwed on. If I was to do another I would go with the Ultimak mount and do a red dot; The rifle is not much good for more tha 100 yards anyway. Here are several mounts that are available.

http://www.ultimak.com/M6instructions.htm

http://www.tjgeneralstore.com/modern1.htm

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=255788

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I have and have used on my M1 carbine a mount similar to the B-Square M1 Carbine mount (it could have been the B-Square or a clone--I got it used in a ziplock baggie): you replace the receiver sight with a threaded dovetail that the mount is anchored to by a screw (no alteration to the receiver needed). I did anchor the "skirt" of the mount with a thread of epoxy (which was a bear to remove when I went back to issue iron sights a few years later). Accuracy with typical ball ammo ran 3.5" groups at 100 yards with a generic 4x scope. Softnose hunting rounds were no better than 3" at 100 yards.

As an alternative, there is a picatinny rail that wraps around the barrel and replaces the upper handguard. It should accept any mil-spec or Weaver mounts.

 

[Sunray]

Why would you want to scope any carbine? It's as silly as putting a bipod on one.
In any case, if you drill and tap an issue Carbine, you'll drop its value by half.

 

[1KPerDay]

Ultimak makes good stuff.

 

[hps1]

Why would you want to scope any carbine? It's as silly as putting a bipod on one.
In any case, if you drill and tap an issue Carbine, you'll drop its value by half.

When your eyes are no longer capable of focusing on front sight. Agree that drilling is not a good idea as you stated, but this no drill mount and a Millet red dot brought my carbine out of the darkness (gun safe) and into the light once more.

http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=12461/Product/NO_DRILL__NO_TAP_SCOPE_MOUNT



Regards,
hps

 

[USSR]

Yep, the Ultimak is the way to go. No drill, no tap, and you can restore it to it's original configuration in a matter of minutes. Oh, and target acquisition with a red dot or Eotech is EXTREMELY fast.

Don

 

[Justin Holder]

I have a Weaver side mount on my Universal.

 

[The Grand Baboon]

Ok, I never intended to tap the receiver.

So the scope mount here ( http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=255788 ) works without tapping? Would I just remove the rear sight and insert that triangle shaped screw in?

Oh, and it looks like the mount has been discontinued on Midway.

 

[hps1]

No drilling required for this mount:

http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=12461/Product/NO_DRILL__NO_TAP_SCOPE_MOUNT


Regards,
hps