Scope mounting kits - which one?
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:27 am
I'm about to mount a scope. Should I get the Wheeler or Weaver kit? I'll need the full kit with the alignment bars, lapping bar and torque driver for a 1" tube.
Are you talking about screwdriver kits? Because I personally like the Brownells kits, but they're seriously not cheap. I bought their Master Super whasit set(58 piece? I think), and in the 90s, and it hasn't gone up that much since then - these days it's $130ish.
Also, it seems their are two different Wheeler torque wrenches. The FAT wrench only goes to 65 in/lbs, which IMHO is too low - Weatherby, for instance, torques the action screws on their rifles to 65 in/lbs. How good are the Wheelers? I'd hate to waste 50 to 75 bucks on one, when I could spend a bit more and buy a Wiha 28508.
I'm not fond of the very common pointed scope alignment tools. It tells you less than you think. Far more useful is two shafts where the ends a machined square - makes it easy to tell how much the heights are off(just use a micrometer - anything more than the nominal diameter{assuming their both the same} of the ends, tells you how much it's off). It will also tell you how square the rings are to each other - if you see a gap on either the top or the bottom, you know that somethings hinky.