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Does anybody know if its a Grifgin & Howe or a German mount?

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What you have is not a Griffin & Howe mount. It is an AKAH (Albrecht Kind) mount, made in Germany. Judging from the number of used Husqvarna rifles sold in this country with either the base for such a mount or the three threaded holes in the side of the receiver used to secure the base, it must be quite popular in Sweden. Griffin & Howe mounts are secured not only by three screws, but also by two tapered dowel pins, which add greatly to the rigidity of the receiver-base combination.

This is an example of a Griffin & Howe mount. The scope is mounted low enough that the shooter has the same line of sight for both iron sights and scope, so his cheek remains in the same position on the stock, irrespective of which sight he is using. Griffin & Howe used screws with double head thickness to secure their mount bases. Once they were tightly turned into the receiver, the slots were milled off, leaving a base with almost invisible screw heads.

This particular Griffin and Howe mount is an older model with windage adjustment meant for scopes with no internal windage adjustment, or for scopes like this one, with a non-centered reticle.



Edited by CptCurl (13/03/12 09:59 PM)

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