How to - Basic steps for a Rifle Scope mount with Randy Newberg

a lot of people ask me what brand or what style of mounting hardware I use for my scopes and you'll see right here these bases I put on there the dual dovetails from leupold same with the rings that I'll use you get the dual dovetail rings they work best for me for what I do what I use leupold makes amazing mounting hardware if you go and see how they actually do it you'll understand why it's so good and you've seen me on other videos lap the Rings and leupold has these really really almost not microscopic but very very small I don't know if you'd call them creases or ribs or edges in here and the idea behind that is that you're going to get really really firm adhesion when your scope sits in here when the tube of the scope is in here it prevents the need from having to lap your rings because sometimes when your rings are set in here they're not perfect so that I'm gonna over exaggerate here but maybe they're cockeyed ones perfectly perpendicular to the scope and the plane of the rifle and one might be tweaked in a little bit I'm Way over amplifying that but you know that it's putting pressures on places in the old days before we had really good rings like these ones from leupold the way that you got rid of those pressure points is by lapping the ring so I got a lapping bar lapping compound and so the places where it would be binding on your scope tube the lapping process would kind of smooth that out so you get this really smooth fit it's paramount that you have your rings lined up perfectly I get that as close as I can but I'm going to show you how I adjust it and make sure you have a really strong gun vise before you start doing this all right so what I'm gonna do lay my tube in there and see yeah pretty close very close but here's the way you really know they set that bar in there this is a lapping bar so my first brush at it I can see this one needs to come back yes slightly okay now here's what will really tell you if you're lined up okay yep these two these are called alignment bars so if you end up with one of them up higher or lower one left and one right guess what you're not lined up properly you've got the bottom of your rings are not aligned in parallel and they're not perpendicular to your shooting plane see that it tells you that my rings aren't lined up perfectly if they were lined up perfectly these two points would touch right on the very tip so that's why you want a good alignment kit and this whole lapping scope mounting alignment kit from wheeler just solves these kind of problems so now you can see I've adjusted this and that's about as close to perfect as you're gonna get now this is a perfect line it almost looks like an X where these meet and when you got old eyes like I do I always put a piece of white paper underneath there for the contrast to tell me where we're at I think I'm about as close to perfect as I'm gonna get what I'm gonna do I'm gonna take these rings I'm gonna pull the tops off here obviously take my alignment bar out of there and then I'm gonna drop this scope in here very first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna adjust my eye relief and then I'm gonna put the Rings back on and then you're gonna see that I have a whole bunch of levels I have a leveling kit from wheeler and the idea is that you want to get your rifle and your shooting plane perfectly vertical and if that's perfectly vertical then when you put your level on here it'll tell you if you're getting off vertical and then you put another level on there I even put a level here near the action I have a level there there and out here and I'll level everything because what you're trying to do is to make sure that your crosshairs are perfect you don't want to have a can't to your crosshairs right because if you're using things like I do like the CD s dial your dial is set for a ballistic trajectory that's perfectly vertical and you're slightly canid it's going to be different same if you have an MOA mill type situation you want to have this thing mounted absolutely perfect perfect vertical perfect horizontal and the way to do that is right here Wheeler has it it's slam-dunk so anyhow that's what's gonna wrap this up I'm gonna do this I got about three or four more to go and then I'm going to go out to the range thanks for watching

Channel: Randy Newberg, Hunter

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Id: UEIi8DsxPkI

Length: 5min 55sec (355 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 07 2018