Looking for advice regarding silver soldering scope bases. I recently bought a rifle with some odd European bases on it. Tried to remove them and got one screw out of each base. Drilled the head off the others and tried to remove them. No luck. Tried a propane torch to see if it was epoxy or low temp solder. No luck. Took it into Williams Gunsight to see if their smiths could remove them. He told me the bases were silver soldered on and that the receiver and barrel had their temper destroyed and had effectively been annealed and the gun was unsafe to shoot. What say the smiths on here? I don’t want to shoot it if it’s unsafe. Thanks,
Old70
