Rifle Scopes Badger Max-50 issues

[Dvando20]

I just put a Badger Ordnance 20moa base on my Rem700. Went to install a pair of the Badger MAX-50 rings, and granted they are a serialized pair, one seems to NOT apply full clamping force onto the picatinny rail. The clamping (moving) part of the ring seems to not seat into the groove on the side of the ring, causing it to bind even at the factory recommended 65 in-lb. You can see how the clamp on the front (muzzle end) ring seems fully engaged and the rear (bolt end) seems kicked out and almost crooked. I have dismounted it, tried diffeferent spots, tried holding it to each side while tightening and even tried guiding the clamp into the groove with no success. It almost feels loose on the rail. Anybody heard of this issue or experienced it? Not something I would expect from Badger, let alone a ring set this beefy. Hope someone can help or can at least tell me if it's worth calling Badger about.

 

[Gil P.]

This has happened to me before where one Badger clamp needed more torque to clamp as tightly as the other. Fully torqued neither would mk move, but when I torqued the ring clamps by hand, one was solid and the other I could still move back and forth. I called BO and they sent me new clamps and solved the problem.

 

[Dvando20]

This has happened to me before where one Badger clamp needed more torque to clamp as tightly as the other. Fully torqued neither would mk move, but when I torqued the ring clamps by hand, one was solid and the other I could still move back and forth. I called BO and they sent me new clamps and solved the problem.

I called them, they sent me new clamp feet and fixed the problem! But they seemed very skeptical about it though. I offered to send pictures of the issue (seen above) but never heard back from them after they sent me the new clamp feet.