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Bad experiences with ARC rings?

jzerfoss

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Just curious to know if anyone out there have had bad experiences with ARC rings or mounts? Mostly curious to know how they handle normal handling impacts in regards to POI shifts.
 
I use them on everything. I did have a zero shift after slipping and falling on my rifle in the mountains with another brand of rings. I even switched my hunting rifles to ARC rings after that. If you are looking for “bad experiences” with ARC M10 rings, I think you are wasting your time. They are as solid as any ring you can find.
 
I absolutely LOVE M10 rings. The only tiny bit of criticism I have is that you must make sure the little pins that hold the lower ring to the two upper pivot “rings” are pushed in before tightening.

Occasionally I’ll open/close the rings while futzing with scope eye relief and find that, after tightening, I noticed a pin walked out a bit during the futzing (but before tightening). This makes me start over with the tightening process.

I’ll take this micro problem any day of the week over the issues with traditional rings.
 
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I absolutely LOVE M10 rings. The only tiny bit of criticism I have is that you must make sure the little pins that hold the lower ring to the two upper pivot “rings” are pushed in before tightening.

Occasionally I’ll open/close the rings while futzing with scope eye relief and find that, after tightening, a pin walked out a bit, making me start over with the tightening process.

I’ll take this micro problem any day of the week over the issues with traditional rings.

I put a tiny dab of super glue on the end of each pin before I start. Pins don’t move during installation after that.
 
The only problem I’ve ever had with them is that I now despise the time wasted fucking with other rings when I could be done in less than 5 minutes. For me any rifle of importance gets M10 rings and I’ll be picking up one of their new M-Brace scope mounts for use with my Revic and Radius.
 
Honestly, they're my favorite set of rings I've ever purchased. They look good, they function FANTASTIC, the price isn't bad when it comes to quality mounting. They're quite the design.

Now I just gotta get Ted to design a cantilever mount for small frame AR's based off the M10 rings...
 
Best rings on the market made the switch 9 months ago or so to there m10 qd-l mount. Easy to install best system I've seen. The finish is amazing on them. Don't worry about anything from ARC. I'd buy more but only have one rifle.
 
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They are excellent rings. Not sure about all the "best ever" comments. I would say that they are as good as anything else- but I also have other rings that I consider excellent as well and as good. But they are easy to use and do exactly what they are supposed to.