Scope mounting kits - which one?
- Frankingun
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Scope mounting kits - which one?
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.
- HTRN
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Re: Scope mounting kits - which one?
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.
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.
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