11mm Dovetail scope mount for AK-74.

[Sifu Steve]

I have an AK-74 that I'm painting up to look severely weathered, rusty and old. It has a side mount. For almost purely cosmetic reasons, I want fit a really old Nikko Sterling 4x15 scope with the original 11mm dovetail clips.

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The problem I have is I want to buy a no-frills scope mount but they're all picatinny rails:

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So what I'm looking for is an AK mount with a dovetail rail (unlikely) or a dovetail rail I can replace the picatinny rail on this mount for.

I must be using the wrong search terms because I keep coming across 11mm dovetail scope mounts but only 21mm picatinny/weaver rails.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Druid799]

I have an AK-74 that I'm painting up to look severely weathered, rusty and old. It has a side mount. For almost purely cosmetic reasons, I want fit a really old Nikko Sterling 4x15 scope with the original 11mm dovetail clips.

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The problem I have is I want to buy a no-frills scope mount but they're all picatinny rails:

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So what I'm looking for is an AK mount with a dovetail rail (unlikely) or a dovetail rail I can replace the picatinny rail on this mount for.

I must be using the wrong search terms because I keep coming across 11mm dovetail scope mounts but only 21mm picatinny/weaver rails.

Any help would be appreciated.

Not able to cut and grind one of those down ? Many moons ago that’s what I had to do with an M14 scope mount so I could do a Vietnam ‘themed’ build with a knackered old scope that had built in dovetail mounts on it .

Edit , quick image ruffly what I did .

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[Adolf Hamster]

tbh i don't think search terms are the issue as much as i don't think there'd be many options to begin with.

at least as a pre-made unit.

the systems like the ones you linked have the rail just screwed on, easily removed and you could fit some 11mm rail by tapping it onto the base which usually is chunky enough (by airsoft standards). i had a night vision scope was mounted that way (albeit bolted direct to the scope and with intense paranoia about the mount being too weak to hold what was a monstrous optic)