Guns manufactures!

[fdashes]

Thought I would try to throw a new discussion out there to lighten things up but be completely serious. I wish the gun manufacturers would stop using single slotted screws in there process. Oh, and scope ring manufacturers would follow that up and use different screw heads also. I don't care how careful and how you use the right screwdriver on those screws, sooner or later you are going to slip and ......ugly screw in pretty rifle. The screws in scope rights are so small and the heads so soft that its not if but when it will happen. I have noticed the scope rings companies are beginning to switch and their allen head screws are a welcome sight but not the only option out there.

 

[Captains1911]

I don't own a single set of scope rings that don't use hex screws. Where are you getting your rings, Walmart?

 

[JRH6856]

I don't care how careful and how you use the right screwdriver on those screws, sooner or later you are going to slip and ......ugly screw in pretty rifle.

Sometimes, the secret of a quality 'smith is not that he doesn't screw up, but how well he can hide the fact that he did.

 

[MachIVshooter]

Phillips head screws look terrible on any gun, and torx/socket head/etc. have no business on certain types of firearms.

I have never had a problem with slotted screws when the CORRECT driver is used. Use that china-made $1.97 bargain bin screwdriver, yeah, you're gonna bugger screws. Use high quality gunsmith screwdrivers and put your purse behind it, no problem.

 

[SunnySlopes]

I bought a rifle where the scope rings were fastened with torx screws. I hadda go buy a set of torx to take the gun apart (for cleaning, inspection, etc).

 

[fdashes]

No Capt..never ever bought anything gun related from Walmart. I do own many vintage rugers and rifles with weaver rings. They all used slotted screws in those days,,,now attack them.

 

[fdashes]

True Microtech, lol. I have a few very fine files for that kinda work. I do only use screwdrivers especially designed and sold by Brownells to work on my guns.

 

[savanahsdad]

I don't own a single set of scope rings that don't use hex screws. Where are you getting your rings, Walmart?

I got some Waever Grand Slam's from Wal-mart last year they had Torx head screws in them , and all the scope ring sets I have got over the years from midway , and local gun shops have had slotted screws in them , so why would you think if he has slotted screws ,he must have gotten them from wal-mart ??

 

[sleepyone]

I don't care how careful and how you use the right screwdriver on those screws, sooner or later you are going to slip and ......ugly screw in pretty rifle.

Sorry, but that is just not true. I invested in a true gunsmith screwdriver set that has at least two dozen different slotted heads alone with the differences in thickness and width being miniscule. If you take the time to find the correct head for a screw where the thickness and width are exactly right, you will not end up with buggered screws no matter how many times you loosen or tighten them. The one thing that no gunsmith screwdriver set can compensate for is overtightening. Then you will surely damage the screw head, break the screw head off or scratch the metal/wood when the screwdriver pops out of the newly widened slot you have just created. You can easily spend a minute or two making sure you find the best head for the screw you are about to remove.

 

[savanahsdad]

fdashes: have you ever tried to fix anything other that a slotted screw ? slotted screws are an eazy fix

 

[SunnySlopes]

he must have gotten them from wal-mart ??

Could be. Regardless, I had to buy the tool to get them off. He said they were Leupolds if that matters.