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Badger Rings vs Unimount?

Nooch13

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so is there a significant difference between a Badger Unimount and Badger rings? I've go both in the same height and wondering which direction would be better...

hopefully this doesn't start a "Ford vs Chevy" argument...lol
 
Either will be fine if the rail they're being mounted on is straight and true. The unimount will be more forgiving on the scope body if the rail is as straight as a Pringle.

Even steel rails of high quality (NF, Badger, etc.) will bend if they don't (almost miraculously) fit the receiver perfectly. Bedding rails is on factory rifles is something I do EVERY time. Custom actions typically are much better, though. Even factory actions where the rails/rings mount on the same surface (Ruger American, Tikka, etc.) are pretty decent. It's the ones like M700's and Savages, and old M98's that have two different bridge heights that are, for obvious tolerance reasons, harder to manufacture parts that fit exactly for. In those situations bedding the pads of contact make the rail fit without bending so either rings or a unimount are equally effective. If the rail is bent... well your first indication should be to bed it so it's not... but the unimount will put less stress on the scope tube in that situation than separate rings.
 
Thank you for the well thought through reply. My only "negative" on the Unimount is that it's rings are much closer together than I typically space mine. I'm not sure if that'll be an issue or not?
 
No issue with rings spacing, they work fine.

The only item to consider is clearance for the objective lens. On the unimount what you have is what you get.

I have one and it works great, especially the built in 20moa. But if you are running a 56mm bell it might end up close enough
to the barrel too not allow the use of a front scope cap........ask me how in know.
 
Lol thanks. I'm only running a 50mm objective so I should be fine. (Famous last words lol).

And to clarify on some one comments above, I'm running it on a Remington 700 300 win mag.