Ruger No.3 scope mounting issues

[72sofsme]

Cross-posted on Ruger Forums …

I have a Ruger No.3 45-70 Gov’t and trying to scope mount it.

I went with the Ruger made bases. (Ruger Ring Scope Base for No. 1 Varminter/No. 3 Rifles Steel Black | Cheaper Than Dirt)

Question is this, are the Ruger rings for this rifle/base selection the same for both front and rear or are they different (front rings need to be higher or lower, etc)? I picked up a second hand Leupold that came off a beautiful CZ Safari .375 H&H Mag rifle, its a VARI-X 3x9 and oddly its rather small for its capabilities but the issue I'm running into is the rings lead me to believe the two Ruger bases that I purchased are not on the same plane but I don't know. Can anyone chime in on this so we can get this properly mounted up? Thank you for any help you can provide

 

[72sofsme]

I have sent a message to Ruger (included the serial number) and a message to Leupold.

I guess I went with the cheaper option and should have gone with something custom

 

[BamaFaninMilton]

I had a No. 3 a few years ago, and I do remember having some difficulty with the scope bases not lining up correctly on the rifle because the holes that were drilled and tapped in the receiver were out of alignment. I finally found an old set of Buehler scope bases and rings that fixed the problem, not sure if you can find them nowadays but if I remember correctly I found them on Ebay.

 

[72sofsme]

Thank you for the info. I searched around for those bases and although some available, nothing for a No.3. I very much appriciate the information on this. I decided to go with the Conetrol bases and rings as it matched the rifle and the company was very confident they would fit with 100% refund if anything went wrong.

 

[Jester896]

I can't remember if the #1 & #3 are offset like the M77 or not. Higher goes in the back I believe.

Those look like the same height from here do you have alignment rods