Rifle Scopes Importance of a quality base

[akscott]

With the arrival of my new razor hd and my seekins rings showing up in a few days, I got to thinking is it worth tossing the egw 20 moa I am currently running and putting a badger or nf on. Is there any noticable gain as far as accuracy. I appreciate your thoughts on the subject. Scott

 

[tony2772]

I own a USO and a Badger and use to have a Larue, didn't care for the Larue much it was a little narrower than the USO and Badger, not exactly 1913 spec. I would say if it works then why replace it, I see alot of people running the EGW bases and haven't heard of any complaints.

 

[darkarcher]

No complaints on my EGW, but I am running aluminum rings, so i figured why not an aluminum base, plus the 25 moa were in the bargain bin.

 

[akscott]

Yea that's was my thinking, I haven't had any problems with the egw but just want to be sure I'm not missing out on anything with the big name base.

 

[Redmanss]

If it's straight and undamaged, and within spec to allow your rings to mount up true, then no problem rolling with it still. The higher grade bases are made from stronger metals for harder use and abuse, including EGW's HD and steel bases. For a rig that sees range use and mild field time, no problem at all. I'm not sure about the effects of your extreme Alaska temps on extruded 6061 aluminum in comparison to billet 7075 or hardened steel.

 

[Armored Transport]

Ken Farrells stuff is worth a serious look........

 

[ORD]

If it's straight and undamaged, and within spec to allow your rings to mount up true, then no problem rolling with it still. The higher grade bases are made from stronger metals for harder use and abuse, including EGW's HD and steel bases. For a rig that sees range use and mild field time, no problem at all. I'm not sure about the effects of your extreme Alaska temps on extruded 6061 aluminum in comparison to billet 7075 or hardened steel.

^^ This for the win! ^^

It really all comes down, in my mind, to what you want/need to do with your rifle...but for me, I have always been more than happy to spend more money on high quality (albeit more expensive), mil-spec mounts/bases/rings because why would I want to skimp on the components that link my primary sighting system with my rifle?!?! I've seen more capable rifles shoot badly because of pi$$ poor quality rings/mounts/optics mounted improperly than you can even imagine. In your case, you spent a lot of money on a quality optic (your Vortex Razor) along with a set of Seekins rings. If you have any doubts about the quality or whether or not your EGW base is straight and true, you might as well upgrade to Badger, Seekins, etc., and be done with it.

 

[nashlaw]

I think there was a recent post with pics of what some pretty heavy recoil did to an aluminum picatinny rail. It was not pretty.

I am an overeducated redneck and like steel.