The rear scope mount ring is a little different. On the rear scope base, each side of Leupold style rings has a windage screw. The best thing to do is to back out each screw equally (one turn at a time) just enough to allow the ring base to be placed in. Then tighten each windage screw with a quarter again using equal turns, OR if you have a large enough screwdriver, you may use that if it won't mar the slots of the screw heads. Again, get them sufficiently tight. The rear scope mount ring is now installed!
Now you must check to see that the scope lies in the ring bases perfectly center. The way to do this is to place the wooden dowel in the rings to ensure that it lies straight, or IF YOU'RE VERY CAREFUL, you can place the scope itself in the rings - just make sure that you don't scratch the scope! Some tape might be a good precautionary measure. If the rings don't seem aligned then adjust them with the wooden dowel, like you did previously to "turn" them in. Some folks "lap" their rings with a lapping tool and compund but I don't feel that this is necessary - especially considering that the tool is often of less rigid dimensional standards than the rings. But, to each their own.
Now comes the part of installing the top rings of your scope mounts. Go ahead and run the screws through the ring bases by starting the screws in with your fingers then turning then in with the usually supplied alan wrench. Again, we use this precaution to remove any "gunk" that may be in the threads of the base ring screw holes, simply using the cloth to remove the "gunk" from the screw threads. Once you get the screws and holes cleaned out, go ahead and place your scope into the bottom rings that you've already installed. Now, carefully place the top half of the ring overtop the scope itself and again start the screws in by hand before using alan wrench. At this point, there are two schools of thought - either way, the goal is to turn all ring screws evenly into the base rings. Typically there are 8 screw rings (4 on the objective ring, 4 on the ocular ring) The first school of thought is to tighten screws in a circular manner (SEE BELOW)
The other school of thought is to tighten the screws in an "X" manner (SEE BELOW)
Either way, be sure to tighen one full turn at "1" before moving onto "2" so as to keep the torgque on the scope even. Of the two, I prefer the second method.
|
