Originally Posted by
bronko22000
It's hard to see in the pics Oldtimr but those are low rings on both rifles. Its the nature of the beast that the bases are higher than they should be. The 1895SBL has a Picatinny rail on it so the rings just attached to that. The Guide Gun has a standard Weaver 1 piece mount base. I guess I could have gotten the scope a tad lower if I would have put on Talley mounts. But I just can't see paying their prices.
BTW if you look closely at the Guide Gun you'll notice it is ported. This is one of the early ones. My wife bought it for me after she saw me drooling over it at a gun show down in Florida back in 1999.
I have the 1895 Guide Gun with the ported barrel, and have taken many deer and wild hogs with it. I put my Mod 88 Winchester in .308 back in the gun safe for many years because I liked the 45-70 guide gun so much and only took it out of retirement last year to take my deer. The rings and mount and scope were on the 1895 when I bought is and I have had no problems with the scope being too high.