Whilst I wait for my barrel to get chopped, I have a mount question. I'm building up an elf owl build, and I plan on using a PST Gen II 1-6. EGW High Rings? PSA Sabre (Warne) mount? Steiner P series mount? PA Glx? Something else? While I like my ADM mounts I really have NO need for QD, so I thought I'd save some bucks there. But I'm still uncertain if I should just go with rings or a mount?
Rings vs Mount. Recs?
- Thread starter RichS
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I just went through this myself, pondering what the strongest setup would be. My choice was between ARC M10 rings and a Nightforce Ultramount. The pair was rings was very robust and the rings alone weighed the same as the entire mount. In the end, I opted to go for the Ultramount, just because I wanted to avoid alignment and stress issues.
Some say rings are more flexible for mounting options, and they can be, but it really depends. I find far more often if I'm running a 13.25-13.5" LOP, I often can't get the optic far enough forward with rings or a non-canti mount. Even on an AR I don't like running rings/mount onto the handguard rail. From an alignment/strength standpoint it seems like a 1 piece mount would be stronger and hopefully avoid putting undue stress on the optic as opposed to rings on a potentially poorly machined rail or receiver. I suspect it's a non-issue though we just don't see mounts fail, or clearly damage scopes often if at all.
My TRG is this way, I had to put the direct mount Sphur as far foward as possible and move the scope forward cheated almost to touching the front ring. I can't use a non-canti 1 piece non-canti mount or rings and get the scope far enough forward on my CZ 457, 10/22's and can just barely use rings on my AI AT.
As such I've basically stopped buying rings, and only run 1 piece canti mounts. The only thing I'd buy rings for now is if I had a hunting application that was not setup for a rail.
The hard part is there's a pretty limited selection of 34mm 0 MOA canti mounts if you already have a rail with MOA built in and almost no mid range options. Hopefully ARC is working on a canti version of their mount.
My TRG is this way, I had to put the direct mount Sphur as far foward as possible and move the scope forward cheated almost to touching the front ring. I can't use a non-canti 1 piece non-canti mount or rings and get the scope far enough forward on my CZ 457, 10/22's and can just barely use rings on my AI AT.
As such I've basically stopped buying rings, and only run 1 piece canti mounts. The only thing I'd buy rings for now is if I had a hunting application that was not setup for a rail.
The hard part is there's a pretty limited selection of 34mm 0 MOA canti mounts if you already have a rail with MOA built in and almost no mid range options. Hopefully ARC is working on a canti version of their mount.
