base for a mossberg 500 bantam?

[hankpot]

I have a old 500 bantam that I am trying to set up for my girlfriend. I am trying to find out what base I need to mount a dot scope. I bought a pre 97 weaver 88 base at the local gun shop but it sticks out past the reciever like 2 in. Surely there are bases made for the smaller bantam recievers?

[DC101]

The base that you need is a weaver 88A top mount.

That's the one I used when my sons were shooitng the 500 bantam.

[joshua]

I went and compared the recievers for a 835 and a 500 20 gauge and they look like they would use the same mount.  Look on weaver optics website and that should help.    this spring
 

[Steamin]

http://www.weaveroptics.com/mountcharts/default.aspx

500AS (Pre 1997) & 600 Shotguns    88 (48088)           
500 (1997+), 590 & 835 Shotguns (Matte) 25   417M (48440) 

It would depend on the year that the gun was manufactured, if the pre '97 is sticking out that far I would say that you would need the 417M.
The above list are fom
Weaver's sight.
I just put the 417M on my boy's 500 Bantam's, but they are new.

Hope this helps some

Steamin

[hankpot]

Thanks for the replys everyone