And now for something entirely different ...!

[Machodoc]

OK ... different for me, anyway.

This Tula Mosin doesn't have a scope number on the receiver, but it has one (1) plug ... right in the center of where I'm used to seeing them.

It's also got the Tula "S P" sniper mark over the star, and concentric double "0" accuracy proofs.

This thing has got more numbers than a N.J. racketeer. Anyone got an idea what would have only been mounted with a single screw on a Tula sniper like this one?

 

[Boom Boom]

white flag?

 

[Machodoc]

white flag?

I knew that some smarta$$ was gonna make a comment like that, and I had you toward the top of the likely suspects list.

That's was funny!

 

[yellowsled]

Peep sight sniper?

 

[Alphabrew]

PE mount instead of PU?

 

[Alphabrew]

Like this:

http://www.gunauction.com/buy/73606...-m91-30-pe-sniper-rifle-scope-side-rail-mount

 

[reverendbeer]

Like this:

http://www.gunauction.com/buy/73606...-m91-30-pe-sniper-rifle-scope-side-rail-mount

This looks pretty definitive to me.

 

[Machodoc]

PE mount instead of PU?

Like this:

http://www.gunauction.com/buy/73606...-m91-30-pe-sniper-rifle-scope-side-rail-mount

That could be it. I'll have to look at the plug position more closely.

I'm not familiar with that scope. Did the forward pin (not the screw) just go into the stock, or did it go into the metal of the receiver?

 

[Alphabrew]

Looks like the fwd pin went into the metal because the stock appears to be notch cut (on the linked auction example) to accommodate the mount. Not sure if it went all the way through the metal though.

 

[mvee]

I have one of those. Check for another plugged hole further towards the muzzle. Maybe where the bolt head locks into place.