I purchased the mount from Bassett about 6 years ago and it works better than most anything else on the market. If you’ve ever fired a M14/M1A you’ll understand why most all scope mounts fail. Hard to believe this simply designed bracket works so well and holds zero both while mounted and when removed and remounted.
Cheek pad is next as using a scope on my M1A completely removes the cheek weld. Nothing worse than having a scope on a National Match grade thunder stick and not being able to go sub MOA on three round groups.