Need some scope/ring/mounting advice

[krajus83]

How do I determine what "height" rings I need? Ive been looking at burris rings and they are different heights, such as medium, high and extra high.

I'm about to pull the trigger on the burris 2 piece tactical base and the burris rings.

Any help would be great.

[Lycanthrope]

How do I determine what "height" rings I need? Ive been looking at burris rings and they are different heights, such as medium, high and extra high.

I'm about to pull the trigger on the burris 2 piece tactical base and the burris rings.

Any help would be great.

Hold the gun and get a good cheekweld. Have someone else hold the scope for you above the receiver until you have perfect eye relief and then measure the height above the receiver. This will let you slam your head into the stock and instantly be able to use the scope. It's nice to have a caliper when measuring.

Then go over to Brownells and look at rings. They list heights.

There are differences in "medium" height rings form brand to brand so you have to measure.

Lycanmeasuretwicethrope

[dk99358]

The size of the objective lens matters too. Most 40mm lens will take a med ring to clear the barrel, sometimes lows will work. Burris has a mount/scope/base chart on their website, find one of their scopes that is similar to yours and go from there.

FWIW, mediums worked fine on my son's Remington 700 with a Bushnell Elite 4200 3-9

Dale

[tdyoung58]

First of all, just don't go and buy rings. On a .300 win mag get some two piece steel mounts. Weaver Grand Slams are relatively cheap. You only need 30mm rings if you are getting 30mm glass. Most scopes are 1" unless you are planning on shooting 500+ and then we may need to talk about bases with down angle.

Hold the gun and get a good cheekweld. Have a buddy.....or um, budette.......hold the scope at theperfect height were you get perfect eye relief. Have them measure how high above the mounts the distance is (usually from the mount to the bottom of the scope tube). You want rings about this high. Brownells lists ring height as a reference.

I prefer the Burris Zee rings over the Signatures....I've had the inserts slip on heavy scopes. Same thing with Leopould STD rings.....broke three sets.....

Tomcat is the man to ask about scopes. I wager he'll be along shortly.

After that's done, we can talk about making sure the scope is squared with the receiver.

LycanIspokeththenamethrope

^^^ yeppers ^^^

I like the Burris bases and Extreme Tactical mounts myself, they are pretty heavy if this is for a hunting gun

Never had much luck with the STD mounts from Leupold either....

[krajus83]

This is the base I was planning on getting.

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct...tNumber=665735

[krajus83]

Thoughts on the base?

[Lycanthrope]

Anything weaver style in steel. The bases you listed look fine.

NO Leupold STD rings/bases. I've had guns eat those like candy with any sort of heavy scope.

Lycanpreferencesthrope

[krajus83]

So I have been looking at different glass choices, and I came across a supersniper brand on ebay that seems to have more magnification than the bushnell 3200. Are these SS scope > the bushnell scopes?

For example...
http://cgi.ebay.com/SWFA-16x42-Super...item53de65c2ee

[Qtrborecrazy]

Burris bases and signature rings. The plastic inserts a great. No laping, no scratches on you scope and they center themselves. I use a wooden dowl and bought the scope leveler from Natchez.

[krajus83]

Thoughts on the above scope vs the TE 3200?