Re: Question on 700sa 20 moa mount
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying aluminum or any metal is best, I was actually asking which one is and why? Nor am I knocking buying expensive parts, or saying less expensive ones are just as good, but they might be.
Using rings and bases of the same material is probably the best argument I can think of, or atleast keeping the clamped material harder than the clamp. I spose if you swapped optics allot in feild conditions and didn't always torque, steel or ti would show allot of merit.
I'd certainly hope fit and finish would look better on he higher end ones.
I suspect, with modern manufacturing being what it is, that as long as you stay away from cheap shit with really juvenile cool sounding names from companies you've never heard of you're probably not getting junk, and installed properly it will serve fine. But I could be wrong.
For the OP, I have a weaver on my 700 .308, I had to bed the rail to the receiver to get it stress free, the regular old 1 peice mount I had before didn't need that. Otherwise its straight and flat, and it has a definite downward slant, true 20 MOA, I dunno, but it works, it does show some machining marks where inside cuts were made, doesn't affect performance, have to look real close to see it one the gun.
Every manufactured part is built to fit in a range of tolerances, some are .0001" or finer, some are .1" or larger, I don't know remingtons tolerances but mount manufacturers pick something inside those to base their tolerances off of, so if theirs are .0001 or finer but its at the opposite end of remmy's from the rifle you have, it won't fit perfect no matter how "perfect" the mount is. Just some more food for thought.