Originally Posted by
BarnesAddict
I'll shorten the real story to protect the innocent.......
Thought I had a scope problem, which turned into a ring/mount problem. The standard Leupold mount up front wore to the point that it was stringing my shots. I removed the scope thinking that was the issue and would have sent it back to Leupold but, I found the front ring would spin like a top in the mount.
Picked up a set of Leupold Mark 4 rings, which by the way are not cheap. With the Wheeler torque wrench in hand, I attempted to mount the rings. Leupold wants the rings torqued to the mounts with 65 inch pounds. The front ring torqued, I proceeded to torque the rear ring. SNAP!
Returned the ring to where I purchased it and there was no trouble returning it. Oh yeah, I took my Wheeler just in case. Just my luck, 325 miles of driving and I'm no further ahead this evening than I was this morning. A new set of Mark 4 mounts are being mailed....
Someone please take the curse off me.
BA,
OK, this is crude, but before I did all that driving, I would have put some kind of shim stock (coke can, whatever) in the hole in the base, so that it would tension the front ring upwards. This would take out the slop, if what a I am envisioning is what I remember from many years ago. This is a 90 degree twist, right?
OldBob