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That is my idea of a perfectly desgned pistol grip. The only thing which detracts from the perfect ergonomic design of the rifle is the period scope mount, which leaves the scope hanging in the air, due (1) to the need to clear the unaltered bolt handle (2) the need to accomodate the "see through" feature which German hunters insisted upon, and (3) the need to provide for windage adjustment in the rear mount, since the scope has provision for internal elevation adjustments only.

In this country, Noske solved the problem of low scope mounting in the early 30's by designing a scope with both windage and elevation adjustment, which had long enough eye relief to allow it to be mounted ahead of the bolt handle and a side mount which in addition to having built in windage, allowed the scope to be mounted as low as iron sights.

Griffin and Howe and Neidner used the same kind of mount, also available with windage adjustment, but tastefully altered the bolt handle to clear the ocular lens for very low mounted scopes.

The Redfield scope mount, both the Senior and Junior models, offered the possibility of iron sight level scope mounts with windage adjustment in the '30's as well, but without the reliable return to zero feature of the Noske, Neidner and G&H mounts.

Since reticles were not centered in those days, windage adjustable mounts were useful even with scopes featuring internal windage adjustments, since the scope could be roughly zeroed using the external adjustements, then fine tuned with the internal ones.

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