Originally Posted By: dpollardOriginally Posted By: Mark2Those appear to be leupold mounts. I got rid of mine for the non adjustable leupold mounts and never looked back.
If I got the non adjustable ones, wouldn't that not allow me to fix my current problem?
Here's the problem...
Back in the dark ages of scopes, the reticle was not "self centering". So you mounted a scope and when you moved the cross hairs to the left - they were on the left side of the field. If you moved them up, they were in the top of the field.
Plus, to make it worse, many rifles were not drilled and tapped for scope mounts... so gunsmiths made a lot of money drilling and tapping Springfields and Mausers and putting scopes on them.... and sometimes, they did less than a stellar job of aligning the bases!
Now, users didn't mind if the cross hairs were high or low in the field, but they hated it when they hairs were over on one side.
Plus, the gunsmiths didn't always get it right when they drilled the receivers, so some way was needed to get the left/right thing fixed.
So Redfield, and then Leupold, came out with mounts that allowed a LOT of left/right adjustment so the scopes of the day could be centered..
Then, scopes were developed with self centered reticles, but by now, so many people were used to this type of mount that they kept ordering it because their father had one, or they had one on an old rifle, and assumed that it was good.
In the 60's, the military was using these mounts on M-40 Sniper rifles, and they were soooooo bad, that they had to weld the two rear screws to the base so they wouldn't loose zero.
Not to beat up on your scope mount, but it is the very worst mount in use today. There are simpler and better mounts available.
One of the best set-ups is the Weaver "Cross slot" base, with any of the ring sets that will fit the cross slot base.
It doesn't have to be made by Weaver - in fact Weaver invented it, but they don't make a good set.
The best are the Warne steel cross slot bases and the Leupold QRW bases... both are small, light, and slicker than owl poop.
The rings can be Leupold QRW, Warne, or the best choice - the Burris "Signature Zee" rings. These bases are NEVER off center so they never need lots of left/right adjustment.
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