Beginners guide to sorting out rings, mounts and scopes

[Gudgeon]

Hi,
I'm looking for some sage advice before I disappear up my own a**e please. I started off my FAC journey with a 308 and a half decent scope firmly fixed atop and never thought about things. Not many years on and I've now acquired an air rifle, two rimfires and a .223 and have a handful of permissions and duties include managing rabbits, hares, foxes as well as deer. I've also got a cupboard full of scopes including NV. Time is always precious and I hate having to zero rifles before heading out.

To make my life easier should I have a consistent mounting system across the rifles? Does it make more sense to invest in quality QD mounts or just buy more scopes? I don't mind spending money, but I wasting it!

Many thanks

 

[cjs66]

Picatinny rail and quality rings to match, qr if you fancy. If you use good technique each time you mount the scope/thermal, they will return to zero.
Obviously, you'll need a rail on each rifle and pic rings on each scope. When mounting, push the scope forward on the rail and tighten with a cheap torque wrench, or make sure the qr leavers are in the same place each time. Contessa make some canny gear, rings and rails.

cjs

 

[Steff]

You want to use various scopes across different rifles without having to zero? Is that it?
I'm not saying it's completely impossible but the hassle involved is immense and the risk of it not working 100% is always present. So I say, forget it.

If you a cupboard full of scopes why not dedicate one or more scopes to one rifle and leave it at that?

 

[Klenchblaize]

I own several rifles that have had the same scope and mounts on them for 30-years.

Make life easy by finding and installing a set-up that suits each rifle and then forget about it.

K

 

[Sonicdmb73]

I have Picatinny mounts on all my rifle’s. However that is because I swap my Pard between them when required. I only have one set of quick detach mounts. Because that combination is for driven Boar, I might need to use open sights depending on the drive set up. Everything else is tightened with a torque screwdriver.

 

[Gudgeon]

Thanks all. I've got one rifle with a pic rail on and a NV scope to swap between three rifles depending on the location/quarry. Sounds like I could standardise on pic rails and get decent rings for any scope I want to swap.

 

[Sonicdmb73]

Thanks all. I've got one rifle with a pic rail on and a NV scope to swap between three rifles depending on the location/quarry. Sounds like I could standardise on pic rails and get decent rings for any scope I want to swap.

That’s basically what I did. I can swap the Pard for anything from rats with the air rifle or fox with the 20 Tac (or 6.5x55 even 30-06 if inclined). The torque screwdriver is the key to getting accurate return to POA/POI along with decent quality rails and mounts.