A scope mounted that high on a fine double rife is an abomination. The express sights that it came with are in keeping with its intended purpose. Claw, tusk, fang or horn targeted instantly at ten paces. Put the scope on the bolt gun where it belongs.

I searched for a couple of years to find a Model 71 in good condition, at what I consiered a reasonable price (under a $1,000) and finally had the fortune to run into a gentleman that had bought the rifle from his neighbor, for purpose of ZElk hunting, had never had the elk hunt variables come together for himk, so it was in his closet for 40 plus years, only shot a few times. I was lucky that the action had been drilled for a Weaver scope mount, and I had an expert checkering smith put the same patern on the rifle that cam with the deluxe versions. i t is a beauty, shoots great and with a leather off set cheek pad the scope that lines up my dominant eye with the Weaver classic 1-3 scope perfectly. I am using the 71 to hunt hogs in Florida, Elk in Az (when drawn)with 250 grain Barnes bullets and reload 200 grain Hornandy for deer in Georgia/Alabama. A great rifle

the winchester 71 is nice but my favorite model is the 94. it looks beautiful and it cycles like a dream and i have never had it break and when you get it in 30-30 it makes for the perfect brush gun for northern michigan woods where i grew up