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Offline zacharoo

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scope mounting
« on: May 13, 2010, 03:48:02 PM »
What is the adverage cost for drilling and tapping 4 holes for mounting a rifle scope base? It is a two part base.

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Re: scope mounting
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2010, 03:01:26 AM »
It depends on the firearm. I normally get $10/hole for normal guns that don't take special fixturing to hold them.
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Re: scope mounting
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2010, 06:47:10 AM »
The cost per hole will vary greatly, depending upon location and local gunsmithing demand, from a low of $10 to upwards of $25. - meaning that, unless you're going to ship it out, you'd better shop around locally, or at least within a reasonable traveling distance.

Think about how a $10 x 4 quote that's far enough away to spend another $10 on fuel for the trip, plus other wear/tear expenses, would put that $20/hole quote from next door in perspective.

Besides which - it's not about how inexpensively the job can be done, IMHO it's how well it can be done, i.e. w/o cratered hole edges, or misdrilling, etc, etc.

I now do my own, but before I did I always first looked at the results of the work of whoever I was thinking of having do the job.

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