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This comes up periodically. Generally when someone asks, "which mounts and rings for my pre 64?", I'm the first to say DD's. Well, not for my H&H rifles. I tried them a long time ago and they hang over the ejection port. Well, the rear mount does anyway, so DD's are not an option for me. How about Talley lightweights?:


Yeah, well you get the idea. I've been of the opinion that Winchester thought those cut-outs for extra clearance of the longer H&H cartridges were put in the top of the receiver bridges for a reason. This is why I chose to use weaver style mounts instead. I will use steel mounts, meaning Leupold PRW:


Or in a pinch, you can use the Warne mounts. One word of caution though, if you choose Warne, the front mount is too long. It extends past the front edge of the receiver, and it looks like garbage. No thought was put into the aesthetics of those bases:


This is kind of a pisser, but can be remedied:




File it flat:


Polish it out and then re-blue:

Install the rings and scope and you are in business: