Browning Magazines & Sights SA-22 Base, Gloss Finish for .22 Rings - 12333, Multi, One Size

It says these are black alright but that they are blued polish finish. They appear to be painted black. They fit well and did the job. Just a different color than the bluing on my Browning SA-22

While I feel the price was a bit much, the quality is very nice. Finish is flawless.

Perfect scope mount well made and easy fitted to SA-22

They fit the rifle perfectly and were easy to install, although you do have to remove the rear sight to mount them. Be very careful when you tap the rear sight our using a brass punch and light hammer taps. Sight is in very tight. Use a padded vise to hold the rifle. The mount appears to be solid and well made. The price seems a bit high, but it is a browning.

Hi, there.In a fit of old age and nostalgia, I bought the rifle I had wanted since I was a kid. A Browning SA 22 (Semi Automatic 22). This gem of engineering by John M. Browning is a sweet shooting varmint eliminator. Also good at punching holes in paper. I have always loved this rifle from the time I was 8, in 1955. Anyone with basic math skills knows how old I am….My subject today is how to mount a scope on to this rifle. Or more precisely how to mount a scope onto the Miroku built version. Browning (and Fabrique Nationale Herstal) stopped making the gun in Belgium in 1973. Miroku, a splendid Japanese firearm manufacturer, took up making the gun in 1974 under contract to Browning. They made some improvements to the design….small but significant improvements. One of their improvements was to move the scope mounting location from a dovetail milled into the top of the receiver to tapping a couple of holes on either side of the the stock flip-up sight on the barrel. The rifle is a take down design, meaning one can easily separate the barrel from the receiver for transport or cleaning. The advantage of this improvement is to solidify the relationship between the barrel and the scope. Maintaining “zero” in gun lingo.The tapped holes are for a scope mount base (Browning part number 12333). This base is cantilevered to extend over the receiver. This allows the mounting a wide variety of scopes onto the rifle with proper eye relief.The use of this base means one must tap out from left to right the aforementioned flip-up iron sight. Left is the left side when holding the rifle to one’s shoulder as if firing the gun. Using a brass punch and a light hammer will get that job done. As with anything having to do with guns, just be careful. In this case, careful not to mar the sight or rifle with misdirected hits.But there is a catch. I just mounted a scope with this system thinking I could go out a find a set of scope rings off the shelf of my gun dealer. Alas none of the rings presented to me worked very well. I suppose one could accept a less than perfect solution. I mean several of the rings I tried to fit sort of worked. As long as not quite good enough and doesn’t really fit floats your boat. Sinks my boat everytime.I even took the rifle to a big box store specializing in guns whose name starts with C and ends in A. They went through their entire inventory of scope rings. They handed the gun back to me and told me honestly they didn’t have anything that worked well.Browning, however, has a solution. Browning part number 12365 is a set of 1” Rimfire rings that fit PERFECTLY on to the base. These rings fit into the milled recesses in the scope base. No fuss, no muss, no accepting partial solutions. They fit perfectly. They are made of steel alloy by Talley, a quality manufacturer, under contract to Browning. These are split ring bases. I tried everything else, but these worked. And worked well. They are sold at Amazon but mischaracterized by Browning as Matte finish. They are a gloss finish matching the scope base. I wish my scope, a Leupold VX Freedom 2-7 X 33, matched but Leupold has gone to making many of their scopes in true matte finish to match the current fad of making everything “tactical”. Still, it is the right scope for the rifle and for me.

This fits your Browning perfectly and is very high quality. Probably the best cantilever mount out there for you SA-22. You do have to remove the rear sight to install this.

Just received the base today used leupold rifleman rings 5-6 shots had the Simmons 22 mag 4x32 dialed in loaded the tube back up and shot a nice group at 30 yards all in all a big improvement over the open sights for my old eyes

A perfect fit for my SA-22 rifle using a Leupold 2X-7X rimfire scope. Few alternatives out there. The Leupold mount does not allow the scope to be positioned rearward as far compared to the Browning. Add to that the Leupold is not as aesthetically pleasing. The really cheap aluminum mounts I would not even consider for use on such a beautiful rifle. The only downside is the cost - of course once bought it is good for a lifetime of use.

Item was received within a week of the order. This cantilever scope mount functions as described, allowing the Browning to be taken down with the 1/4 turn. I have mounted, zeroed, and tested to this product. I have no issues and serves as a solid base for an accurate scope. I give it 4 stars primarily on price. It shouldn't cost over fifty dollars for a reliable mount made for a .22 long rifle caliber.