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Actually I'd like to share the process with someone else so they could take some of the pressure off and start building them too. I retired 10 years ago but setting around is not for me. With the demand this gets to be a job instead of a hobby though.


I am no longer accepting orders for the Lightfoot scope mount.
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Unfortunately I don't weld. My father did like nobody's business but I didn't get that gene. Looking for other makers could possibly be a forum effort. Just a thought.


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Originally Posted by Lightfoot
Actually I'd like to share the process with someone else so they could take some of the pressure off and start building them too. I retired 10 years ago but setting around is not for me. With the demand this gets to be a job instead of a hobby though.


Don't worry Mike, when the Chinese get wind of it they'll start making them and put you out of business. That happened to a friend of mine that invented an LED flashlite early on.


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Originally Posted by Sportsdad60
I mounted one of Mike's no-drill Savage mounts on my 1940 S99 .300 savage EG today.

I topped it off with an old Leupold M8 4X I had sitting around (its a little nicked up scope but perfect glass)

Before this, I had a Marbles tang peep sight and the rifle was pretty accurate out to 100 yards with the peep, about 2" MOA. I should be able to tighten that group up now and bring it out to 200 yards now,eh? Most of my shots in Montana for deer have been in the 100 to 200 yard range.

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I've had two late-forties EG's that would group MOA on a good day. You should have no problem menacing deer out to 300 yards.
I'm just awaiting delivery of a very nice EG myself; I'm hoping history repeats. Now if the deer would just move into my region!

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Does anyone know how to reach mr. Lightfoot? Found him on ebay looking for a no drill mount, but ebay won't let him pass along his contact info. He suggested a google search, but all I found were forms with his name... Thanks guys, appreciate any help.... Really hoping to get my 99 back in the woods!!!

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He's lightfoot on this forum but I'm not sure you can PM him with such a low message count. I'm sure he'll be along soon.

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Try: lightfootmountgmail.com

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Hey all just wanted to follow up on that lightfoot mount and echo what others have said. It is SWEET to say the least ! I finally got my pieces together and got a weaver 2-7x28 on my 300 and it works great ! Thanks much for the great work lightfoot !

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Great to hear. If you use it for hunting, be sure to bring a couple pictures back to share.


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Will do Calhoun ! I tried to find instructions on loading pictures earlier maybe I'm too blind to find em 🙃

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If you go to the list of Forums, there's an Image Forum towards the bottom where you can upload full sized pictures into a post. Then just come here and tell us you uploaded them, we can link the pictures in.

Or use one of the online photo sharing sites (not photobucket), they make it pretty easy to upload pictures there and share them here. Something like Imgur.


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Originally Posted by damnesia
Mike, have you considered making a video of the process of making them? I think it'd be interesting. However I'm sure you have better things to do smile

NO, don't need competion

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Originally Posted by texken
Originally Posted by damnesia
Mike, have you considered making a video of the process of making them? I think it'd be interesting. However I'm sure you have better things to do smile

NO, don't need competion


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