Not the same scope mount question.

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   Does anyone know if removing/recounting a catco scope mount from a 2A1 could flex the receiver enough to change the fit in an epoxy bedded stock, or degrade performance?
Thanks!

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Hal9000 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: November 14 2024 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hal9000 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Not the same scope mount question. Posted: June 07 2025 at 12:43pm
	Does anyone know if removing/recounting a catco scope mount from a 2A1 could flex the receiver enough to change the fit in an epoxy bedded stock, or degrade performance? Thanks!

Shamu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Logo Designer / Donating Member Joined: April 25 2007 Location: MD, USA. Status: Offline Points: 20510	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shamu Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: June 07 2025 at 1:02pm
	Wait, what Epoxy bedding? There shouldn't be any!
	Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)

Hal9000 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: November 14 2024 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hal9000 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: June 07 2025 at 9:15pm
	Sorry, missing context. This is not an original rifle. It was sporterized 25 years ago and I'm re-accurizing it for my son. The sporter stock and scope mount needed significant work and its shooting fairly well now (3" 10 shot groups at 100yd) but I have high standards. I've read and heard stories about how enfield receivers were made with as little metal as possible and are prone to harmonics and flexing. It got me thinking that since I started with the stock bedding and ended with the scope mount modifications I might have changed the receiver dimensions enough to require a redo on the stock bedding. Thoughts?

Shamu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Logo Designer / Donating Member Joined: April 25 2007 Location: MD, USA. Status: Offline Points: 20510	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shamu Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: June 08 2025 at 11:52am
	I'd still need to see the mount to give an opinion. I'm afraid I've never heard of the model. If it helps, SMLE's were successfully scoped, but that was in the original configuration.
	Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)

Hal9000 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: November 14 2024 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hal9000 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: June 08 2025 at 8:49pm
	I'm having trouble with the image upload tools. It's gonna have to wait until I cab try on a computer instead of my phone. Gimme a day or so.... Thanks

Hal9000 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: November 14 2024 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hal9000 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: June 09 2025 at 4:37pm
	Okay, sorry for the delay, here are a couple of mid-modification photos I had handy which should demonstrate my concern. The grub screw at the front end (top left in first photo) of the mount bears on the receiver and presses rearward, to provide tension against the rear sight bridge (?) on the receiver. My concern is that there could be some downard flex/distortion of the receiver as a result of this force, and removing/reinstalling (especially after altering the mount) might change that distortion enough to impact the way the receiver nestles into its bedding. Is this just unfounded concern on my part, or am I onto something that I need to pay attention to here?

Shamu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Logo Designer / Donating Member Joined: April 25 2007 Location: MD, USA. Status: Offline Points: 20510	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shamu Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: June 10 2025 at 10:35am
	Just my Opinion, but As long as you don't change the front grub screws its should come (mostly) back to the same poa.
	Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)

Hal9000 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: November 14 2024 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hal9000 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: June 10 2025 at 11:18am
	You have to loosen that screw to remove the mount. I'm worried about possible changes to the force applied to the receiver. I didn't remove the mount using a torque wrench, so it's unlikely to be torqued to the same tension as before.

Hal9000 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: November 14 2024 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hal9000 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: June 10 2025 at 11:39am
	I'm just thinking that a spreading force across the top of the receiver might be bowing the while thing in a downward arc to a greater or lesser extent than when I bedded the rifle. I agree that it should be stable as long as I don't remove the mount... I don't mind rebedding if it's needed, but I just don't have much free time. I'm convinced I can wring more accuracy out of the rifle than I'm getting. At this point that's the end goal. Since it's not worth restoring to Original I don't have much guilt about doing what's necessary to make it a good field rifle for my kid.