Scope Ring Suggestions

Jeff H

NW Ohio
........... If you look at something like the Leupold Cross Slot Quick Detach mounts you will see all they really are is a Weave ring and base set up. These do return to zero pretty well just like the older Weavers do.
I think just about everyone has copied the Weaver rings by now.
 

BBerguson

Official Pennsyltuckian
Speaking of rings and shims and stuff.. My son and I just shimmed the one piece base on his CVA 45-70 because it was 12 inches low at 50 yards. The shim material I used was lead tape for weighting golf clubs. I highly recommend it! I think it is .012 thick and we used 2 pieces on the back and one towards the front to taper it down better. It worked great putting us high enough to give us some room to come down. This also works great for mounting flints in a flintlock.
 

CWLONGSHOT

Well-Known Member
About ten years ago.... I bought a 500 S&W H&R single shot. New cartridge and rifle. Installed a steel base (as I prefer them to alloys) Was LEUPOLD made, Weaver IIRC. Any how. Mounted a Leupold scope in Leupold rings.
Had accuracy issues from the get go. Tried this and that changed bullets loads and even scope. But never moved the rings from the base. The recoil cracked one ring base and broke a lug in the base!!

A decade or so before that on Contenders, I had scope slip. I added second ring. Then I sheared the #6 screws off. Upped them to 8's and EPOXIED the base to the barrel!! This was on 45/70 & 357 Herrett barrels. Other calibers got third ring and had not been a problem.

I discovered Leupold dual dovetail bases and rings and have not looked back! I did have scope shift in my 450 Bushmaster but fixed that with a touch of blk RTV in bottom ring. Just about a 1/8-3/16" dollup.

I have these on every rifle they make the bases for. IMHO about as solid a mount as you can get.

CW
 

Jeff H

NW Ohio
About ten years ago.... I bought a 500 S&W H&R single shot............

Ahhhh, now there's a difference there. I can't say my favored Weaver setup would stand up to that, because that's a whole 'nuther ballgame - one I've not played. That your setup survives those conditions is a testament to its durability, but I don't think it's an indictment against anything that wouldn't - which wasn't designed for such extremes either.

I think the stoutest recoil I've subjected this system to is 180 grain, 06 loads in a 6.25# rifle. Even that's way more than I need for anything anyway, so the greatest pounding my rings/bases will see is probably the 30/30 in a 6# rifle. Not that it won't take more, but it's as much as I'm throwing at it and I don't need something I can throw bricks at.

CONTEXT has a lot to do with PERSPECTIVE, and I do see your point.