A couple of years ago I got the bright idea to be nice and buy the wife a nice better new scope for her Ruger M77 MKII 7mm Rem mag. Well some how I forgot that I bought it and Deja vu I had this great idea and bought her new scope. So here I sit with two Vortex Diamondback 6-24x50's. Ordered Vortex rings from Midway and set them aside, only to forget where I put them. Picked up another set only to realize they were shorter rings in the wrong package. Of course I bought them while I was traveling for work so not going to take them back. Son called one day while he was in a gun store and asked if I needed anything and I finally remember those damn rings. He found them and brought them. I gathered everything to swap the scopes and realized I had two scopes, and than things really went down hill. I opened the rings and go oh crap Ruger has their own mounting system machined into the receiver. I felt so dumb, I had forgotten all about it.

So on the hunt for Ruger rings their website is a cluster! The rings were out of stock of course. So I waited until they got here only to find out I ordered the one inch instead of the 30mm like a dumb a... The 30mm were in stock so I ordered them right away and got the others ready to return. I still haven't heard if they received them.

This brings us to tonight... I pulled the old scope off and set the new rings. set the scope on and just had to shake my head. It appeared that the scope was running up hill. I pulled out the tools from the ring lapping kit and proved to my self that I didn't have one to many beers. There was close to 3/16" between the points. I kept moving things trying to make it make sense. But I couldn't. Of to the GOOGLE box I go. The Google Foo was strong today as it only took a couple minutes to remind me that Ruger uses two different height rings. This has been a large pain in my backside trying to get this scope swapped out.

Sounds like you are having a load of fun with mounting a scope mate. Maybe you can utilise the scope rings from the old scope when mounting the new one…assuming the old scope has a 30mm tube.

Good luck with this mate. I only wish I could afford the Vortex Diamondback scope.

Yea the old scope was just a cheap old one I put on many years ago. Of course its a one inch tube. My memory has been the major culprit of all this chaos.

wiersy111 wrote:

Yea the old scope was just a cheap old one I put on many years ago. Of course it’s a one inch tube. My memory has been the major culprit of all this chaos.

Ah…the older we get, the better we used to be mate.

Vince wrote:

wiersy111 wrote: Yea the old scope was just a cheap old one I put on many years ago. Of course it’s a one inch tube. My memory has been the major culprit of all this chaos. Ah…the older we get, the better we used to be mate.

That is sure true!

I'm getting the opposite problem, with hunting regulation changes here forcing us to lower powers (for some hunts), I'm getting a stack of take off scopes. Last two I pulled off were 4x12 Vortex's. Great scopes, just cant use'em atm for my favorite hunt.

I kept all my older 1x scopes, those are all back on guns now. Even bought a couple used but good condition 1x for any mishaps down the road (none of these are in production any more).

-DallanC

DallanC wrote:

I'm getting the opposite problem, with hunting regulation changes here forcing us to lower powers (for some hunts), I'm getting a stack of take off scopes. Last two I pulled off were 4x12 Vortex's. Great scopes, just cant use'em atm for my favorite hunt. I kept all my older 1x scopes, those are all back on guns now. Even bought a couple used but good condition 1x for any mishaps down the road (none of these are in production any more). -DallanC

WOW…if I’m reading this correctly, I’m assuming the “powers to be” have banned scopes over a certain power for some hunts. I wonder what is behind this and whether or not the scope manufacturers are opposing it, and if it’s going to increase the cost of lower powered scopes?

As far as I know Utah banned scopes higher the 1x on muzzleloaders.

I couldn't imagine putting a 4-12x scope on a smoke stick. That's a big scope.

Dimitri wrote:

As far as I know Utah banned scopes higher the 1x on muzzleloaders. I couldn't imagine putting a 4-12x scope on a smoke stick. That's a big scope.

Ok, that makes sense…a replica muzzleloader shouldn’t/wouldn’t need a high power scope. Don’t know about modern BP rifles though. I would imagine they could benefit from a higher power scope, especially those with a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore.

Vince wrote:

a replica muzzleloader shouldn’t/wouldn’t need a high power scope.

Hold my beer

gelandangan wrote:

Vince wrote: a replica muzzleloader shouldn’t/wouldn’t need a high power scope. Hold my beer

Well I finally got it mounted! Now I just have to add it to the 5 or 6 or maybe it's 7 other guns that need to go to the range.

Good job mate…now for some recoil therapy.

After the past few months I need some recoil therapy. I have to take SWMBO back to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Mn after work tomorrow.