LaneP
Single-Sixer
Well...they appear to be manufactured as they were intended.
You have the main mount base, a part of which is the lug which grips the left side of the topstrap frame cut out. As such it fully engages the cut out and because the contact surfaces are mated well to each other, mounting pressure is evenly distributed between the two surfaces. The left side of the frame is virtually mar free:
Then on the right hand side of the mount, the element which contacts the top strap frame cut out is part of the cross bolt. It traverses the mount, and tightened with a nut applied to the left side of the mount.
Because that traversing "bolt" (#1 in pic below) is enclosed within the frame of the scope base, it is necessarily higher (closer to the top most part of the frame top strap) and as a result, closer to the top of the frame cut out to which it is supposed to grip.
I think it is just a poorly conceived design. Properly designed, the right side (#3 position in pic) would be evenly mated to the contact surface of the frame and have its clamping forces evenly distributed as the left side does (#2 position in pic), and minimal marring would result.
But at the end of the day, it will hold the scope to the pistol frame. In my case with sufficient torque applied to hold and then with the exposure to the jarring affects of full charge .454, it's going to result in some frame marring.
I have the Weigand on order and will work with that going forward.
You have the main mount base, a part of which is the lug which grips the left side of the topstrap frame cut out. As such it fully engages the cut out and because the contact surfaces are mated well to each other, mounting pressure is evenly distributed between the two surfaces. The left side of the frame is virtually mar free:
Then on the right hand side of the mount, the element which contacts the top strap frame cut out is part of the cross bolt. It traverses the mount, and tightened with a nut applied to the left side of the mount.
Because that traversing "bolt" (#1 in pic below) is enclosed within the frame of the scope base, it is necessarily higher (closer to the top most part of the frame top strap) and as a result, closer to the top of the frame cut out to which it is supposed to grip.
I think it is just a poorly conceived design. Properly designed, the right side (#3 position in pic) would be evenly mated to the contact surface of the frame and have its clamping forces evenly distributed as the left side does (#2 position in pic), and minimal marring would result.
But at the end of the day, it will hold the scope to the pistol frame. In my case with sufficient torque applied to hold and then with the exposure to the jarring affects of full charge .454, it's going to result in some frame marring.
I have the Weigand on order and will work with that going forward.