Nicely done. A first rate job.

At least you can still use the iron sights, a lot of mounts mean you cant or remove the rear sight. I suspect that if not enough windage is available on the scop you could shim the mount front or rear. The Canadians did that with the Warner Swasey off sets on the Ross in WW1.
Any how who cares it looks the biz and may qualify for interim 7.62 target class as they wwew Norgie Home Gd issue!

Tim speaketh da troof. "Shims" will be your best friend.

HOWEVER, I suspect that the smith aligned the mount with the bore, both laterally and vertically.

And my spies tell me that the repro Ukrainian scopes are made to Zeiss specs, because they want a piece of the lucrative U.S. collector/curio & relic market, and selling crap does not get you anywhere, in this market.

So unless you put a zillion rounds through Mickey, everything should be tickety-boo. And perhaps even then...

By the way... I covet Mickey, or at least his scoped incarnation.

Now I'll have to look at doing something the same for one of my K98s... I think Bertha, the "Russian capture", will be a good platform.

Of course, it's still in its original 8x57mm chambering, but I have a thousand-odd rounds thereof to sight it in with.

Shouldn't take me more than a couple hundred.

That looks swell! All's I did was put an Aimpoint on my Postal Meter Carbine, and it still jamms all the time...

Very nice! But aren't you going to need a lace-on cheek-piece to get your head up high enough to look through the optics?

Well I hope not because that would rather spoil things. At the moment it feels at little strange but as ever, the proof is in the shooting

Looks fine just the job for a few deer. As to scopes I was talking to the guys at Foxfirearms and they reckon that spring air rifles are much worse than medium bore rifles. Make of that what you will but I think the scope will hold up OK. I bought a S/H Doctor Optic but only because my RFd found me one

The recoil from spring air rifles actualy causes more damage to a poor scope than a 7mm + centrefire. This is due to the way in which the energy is released by the spring and the forces are not all one way!