My Son, bless him, brought me is new to him Stevens (savage) model 110E in 30-06 and wanted me to build a load, make boolits, and help him get it all lined out for shooting cast. It was in ruff shape. Pain in the butt really. Gun haven’t been cleaned for about 40 years, and the barrel was basically fuzzy looking, outside of the gun was a bit rusty but functioning. Stock was serviceable. Got it cleaned up as much as possible, slapped a weaver rail in place and mounted his inexpensive scope, and took it to the range to sight in. Grouping ok, but not enough vertical adjustment... still shot 10 inches low. Took the rings off, slipped on rings from another rifle, still too low.. took some rings off another rifle that were see thru as well and my Leopold scope, dang if they were also out of vertical adjustment. Shims wouldn’t give me enough vertical lift. Started looking and realized the entire top of the receiver is sloped down towards the barrel nut. Now what?
Anybody else have one of these vintage savage/stevens 110e’s and solved this problem? Gun is from the late 60’s best I can determine. I need to figure out how to get it scoped for my son...
Thanks all