AR-15 BS Thread

No real advantage putting a $300 scope in a $200 mount. warne and talley have some decent ones for the money.

Schmidt Bender glass? Yeah, I'd spring for Badger ordinance

 

The reviews are only as good as the persons knowledge reviewing them. This coming from a guy with a $90 mount on his AR.

Do you have a torque wrench for your base? If you over torque your optic you’ll have a hell of a time keeping zero. Keep in mind the extra price usually comes with more precision and higher QC. Along with that comes a good warranty and customer service. If you’re not planning on going past 100 yards and shooting from a rest then by all means go for the $40 mount.

 

Psh. Barska trumps all.

 

Good advice!! Have a torque wrench and torque your rings/mount to spec.

 

The big difference between quality and bargain mounts hits home with quick detach solutions. The higher dollar mounts (LaRue, ADM, Bobro, etc) are manufactured to tighter tolerances and are going to have less (if any) zero shift. Cheaper mounts can have a considerable shift in zero when removed and remounted. Some also have a low tolerance for recoil. I had a scope pair of no-name rings on my Mosin M44 that disintegrated after about 10 rounds. I replaced them with Millett rings and they did fine (even though the reticle broke loose inside the scope a little while later)...

As others have said, a torque wrench is good. Just be sure to get the right scale (i.e. inch pounds, not inch ounces or foot pounds).

 

This exactly. That and HOLD a zero. If you’re doing some moving around and and bumping into things a cheap set of rings isn’t going to hold as well.

 

If you plan on getting a better scope in the future get better rings.

I’m using a $1200 Vortex Viper PST on my Remington 700 and that budget scope is housed in a $500 Spuhr ISMS mount.

 

Bad rings can break scopes. Burris Zee rings do pretty well as I understand it. I'm running SWFA on my bolt gun, work well and required very little lapping on my Leupold base

 

Thanks for the response, that's the info I was looking to get answered! Appreciate it

 

Lower # 2 complete

 

What grip is that? I like the way it looks and would like to check one out in person to see how it feels.

 

TacStar If you have large hands these are the way to go I have not used anything else and have changed out just about all of my grips to these....

 

Check Amazon and eBay that’s where I usually get Them...

 

Try Fab Denfense. Very similar profile to what you have there. Their rubberized grip is great for big hands and super comfortable.

I switched to Ergo grips for a lot of mine. I have big hands, although thin so I wanted to find something in between magpul (small) and the fab defense (large).

 

I have six or eight Ergos in the closet that have been changed out

 

The only ones I have seen is the folding ones but at $60 that’s a little rich for me. I can pick these up for $23/25 bucks

 

Millett DT00031 are cheap and work well if you don’t need or want a fancy quick detach mount. I have them on several ARs and consistently hit out past 700m without problems on multiple rifles in different calibers and with different scopes.

 

MBT 2S?
Excellent trigger and only $87.
I have several.

Shot these with a .260 @ 100 yards with a MBT: