Your opinion on high rise scope mounts?

Hello John!

I applaud your desire to "Buy American", but I think you have missed the point here. Different mounts and bases are made for different reasons, and each reason may have a detriment associated with it.

When mounting a scope, the main objective, other than putting the scope on the rifle, is to have the objective bell of the scope "clear' the barrel. Hence, you have four different sizes of mounts (low, medium, high, and extra high rings/mounts). The detriment of using higher than low mount rings/mounts/bases, is that the higher you move the scope above the centerline of the bore, the more you end up lifting your cheek off of the comb of the stock. If your cheek is not consistent on the comb and you can not properly align your eye with the scope (or sights), your spot weld is shot, and your accuracy goes down hill.

Realistically, you need the diameter of your scope's objective bell, and get bases/rings/mounts that has your objective bell about 1/8" above the barrel at all points of contact.

Good luck and good shooting!

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Your opinion on high rise scope mounts?

I got a Marlin XT-22 recently and decided to put a scope on it. I bought a $30 Simmons scope for it and it had the low profile mounts included. Well the mounts were so cheap that one of the internal threads got stripped so now it will not hold the scope in right. So I went to Dunham's and all...

People who buy a 25-06 are usually deer hunters. People who buy scopes where the lowest power is a 6 - are target shooters. At 6x - when you look at a deer about 75 yards away - all you see is brown fur. You do not know if your crosshairs are on the ear, a vital area, or the tail. And if the deer begins to move - you can't follow it - because you have no field of view - is like looking down a long cardboard tube and trying to follow a car down the street. There is never a free lunch in hunting equipment. What you gain in one area, you loose in a different one. If you put this scope on this caliber rifle - it would be fine for hunting the wide, flat open tundra of Alaska, hunting on long beaches, or farm land with no trees. Take this thing into the woods - be like taking a knife to a gunfight. You want a 3-7x, 4-12x or a 4.5-14x scope at the most. You always, always, want the lowest possible rings.

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Personally I like the high-rise mounts. You drop the gun your probably going to need to spend some money on a scope anyway because it may crack. As for the mounts they are not easy to break. The only thing about it is holding your head at a different angle. But you can use iron sights on the gun with the high-rise so if your scope goes bad you have a secondary sight.

Typically people choose low, mid, or tall rings so that a scope will clear the rifle or align properly with their eye. I have never heard of using tall rings because they were cheaper. It probably does look weird.

and also as a side note..... With these extra high scope rings, zero the rifle in at 50 or more yards instead of trying to do it at a closer range.........

And you have to ruin your cheekweld to get up there to see through the things. I wouldn't do it.