No offense taken by your inquiry I only took it is that. I’ll post some pictures of how a stateside gunsmith overcame the mounting of a scope with the claw bases. most of my cigarette rifles as I referred to him are based on mouser 98 actions but I do have a handful that are built on 1903 actions. I find them very unique, especially the way they used materials on hand to create some pretty good specimens was still allowing them to build affordably.