jukk0u wrote:
Don't know if it only applies to airguns. Thed dovetails just reminded me of old Benjamins and etc that are cut that way.
Yeah, I see it now that I was looking over other rifles, including a couple of airguns.
jukk0u wrote:
That said, if those rings hold tight... why not use them?
Are those 10/22 rings?
EDIT: you probably have Weaver rings? In that case you would have to get 13mm-to-Weaver adapter/rings?
Why not use them? Before I joined WaGuns I might have just cinched them down and gone killing. Since I usually only shoot CCI CB Longs in that old Monkey Wards 87 recoil is not an issue I don't think.
I don't know where the rings came from- probably a gun show, or in a box of parts that I bought over the years.
I am reading up on Weaver, Picatinny, Leupold mounting systems. I'm a scope infant.
mtnwkr, I may do that.
MadPick wrote:
PMB wrote:
Steve's arrangement....
OK, OK . . . I guess what I thought I saw in the photo wasn't reality.
I thought it did look better... Your suggestion straightens up the movable side, which would allow a better/easier improvement like sreyemj talked about. No?
sreyemj wrote:
The airgun/22lr 3/8" and 11mm dovetail grooves tend to vary a lot from what the manufacturer claims (both the size of the rail and rings). I've had good luck modifying the UTG rings to fit a given rail by adding spacers under the clamp part or cutting away some of the material under the screws/clamp to fit a smaller rail.
By spacers under the clamp part, do you mean like brass shim stock just to take up a poor fit?
Is UTG a brand name or... a style? I know nothing.
sreyemj wrote:
Here's an example of one where I cut material away, in your case you would want to add a spacer under the screws/clamp. I also took some material off the bottom of both sides of the clamp to better fit the contour of the rail. The last thing I would do is remove the crappy sticky tape from inside the rings, rough up the inside with sandpaper, and bed the rings with JB weld. It's super easy to do and makes the cheap rings very usable.
I'm grokking some of that. Thank you for the descriptions- that helped.
Can you describe that bedding with JB Weld procedure?
That brings up a question that I have been meaning to ask for awhile about cheap versus spendy rings.