Need help: Millet windage-adjustable rings

[Col. Plink]

Mauser scope project, going great until I ran out of windage adjustment.

So I quickly bit the bullet and bought the Millett windage-adjustable rings, but danged if I can't figure out how to install them from the directions included. They are not written by English-speakers, I am convinced.

Everyone that use them seems to think they perform as well as expected, I just need to get them on the base! Thanks!

 

[morcey2]

Mauser scope project, going great until I ran out of windage adjustment.

So I quickly bit the bullet and bought the Millett windage-adjustable rings, but danged if I can't figure out how to install them from the directions included. They are not written by English-speakers, I am convinced.

Everyone that use them seems to think they perform as well as expected, I just need to get them on the base! Thanks!

First, a dumb question ('cause I've done this before): Did you get the right rings for bases? I've got a set on a mauser with the standard weaver bases and they work great. What's the part # for the rings?

Matt

 

[Col. Plink]

Millett 1" Angle-Loc Windage Adjustable Weaver-Style Rings Low
Product #: 1397542758
Millett #: AL00710

The base is not an option: special for VZ-24 Mausers, a rail mounted in place of the ladder rear sight.

 

[helotaxi]

Highly likely that you're going to damage the scope using much windage at all on the bases. Any is really too much because the design doesn't allow the bores of the two rings to align which then torques the scope tube potentially binding the internals, or worse.

 

[Col. Plink]

That was my thought: do the rings also allow some play side-to-side so that rotating where the scope points allows them to line up (so they don't bind the scope)?

 

[Art Eatman]

Adjust the rear base with the crosshairs centered in the scope as you boresight--but don't tighten the front ring beyond "reasonably snug". After you're satisfied with the basic bore sighting, then it's time to take a one-inch dowel rod with sandpaper and true up the front ring.

 

[jmr40]

1st things first.

Before you do anything you have to get the crosshairs centered in the scope. Move your windage adjustment on the scope all the way to either right or left. It doesn't matter which. Then move it all the way back in the other direction counting clicks as you go. Divide by 2. For example if you moved the scope all the way to the right, and counted 120 clicks to move it all the way to the left, you now need to move it 60 clicks back to the right to get the crosshairs centered in the scope. If you don't do this you may well run out of adjustment again.

Then do as Art suggested when bore sighting.

I truly hate these type rings becase they are PITA to get mounted correctly, they are heavy, not all that strong, and can easily be messed up if one of your adjustment screws works loose.

But, this is what they are made for and they are the type you need to fix the problem. I'd never use them on a rifle where the scope mounting holes are right.

 

[helotaxi]

Or you could simply use off-set bushings in a set of Signature rings from Burris. Standard (Leupold style) bases and Signature rings allow for the use of windage in the rear base without the possibility of binding the scope.