Fixing crooked scope mount holes

[Twelve1665]

I had my Savage 110 rebarrelled with a custom barrel and it came back from the smith awesome but my scope mount holes are now way off requiring Leupold adjustable mounts. Is it going to be ridiculously expensive to have the holes welded up and re-drilled? Can most gunsmiths handle this job or will I need to send it to a specialist?

[Cris]

ss1, may be best to handle answering this as I think he has done it before. Wait for him to chime in.

[Twelve1665]

Roger That

[ss1]

Your receiver should not have shifted your scope base mounting points due to a rebarrel. If the barrel lug was not centered in the proper location when the barrel was torqued on, then everything becomes off centered. Your trigger group should also be equally canted and binding with the stock. My suggestion is not to redrill and tap but to have the smith loosen the barrel and readjust the lug properly. Unfortunately our shop only has a receiver wrench for Remington 700's if you are in S FL.

[Cris]

If that is the case, wouldn't the person who did the rebarrel be responsible to make this right? Unless of course they didn't do the disassemble and reassemble.

[Chris]

I agree with SS1, just a comment on the original post, if you ever were faced with having to weld or fill holes on a recievier I would really really think about it.
You could cause a myriad of problems more likely than fix them.
Destroying the factory heat treat as well as possibly causing warpage of the reciever that would be unrepairable.
Brittle recievers are bad!

As SS1 said its most likely skewed from assembly

[Twelve1665]

Thanks for the advice. I have been stumped on how a re-barrel could change the scope alignment. The trigger group looks fine but the scope holes are way off, even to the naked eye. Funny thing is that the rifle shoots great with the Leupold mounts bringing everything back in line. I was going to take it back to the shop that did the work anyway I've just been procrastinating.

If the barrel lug alignment is OK I'll probably just leave the scope mount alone and put the money into something else.

Thanks again

[Chris]

I think adjustable rings are better in the long run anyway

Millett also makes a very nice adjustable ring