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#10MinuteTalk – Optic/Ring Height

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Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

You’ve got the gun, you’ve got the rifle, now you need to get the best rings to hold them together… But what height? That’s the question we address here in this episode with Reuben Aleckson across the table from Jimmy and Mark. Full disclosure, if you’re looking for a definitive answer for your particular gun and scope combo, this isn’t going to be it, unfortunately. That said, we do go into all the reasons why that is such a difficult goal to achieve and all the aspects of your setup you should consider when making that final decision. Should you be shooting to get the scope as low to the bore as possible? Or perhaps cheek weld is the most important? How about clearing the objective bell or mag ring? All good questions! We hope this podcast can help.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? We have 10-ish minutes here with Mr. Rubin

0:04.1

Alexin across the table and to talk about site height, height over boar, things

0:10.0

like that. We get a lot of questions here at vortex every single day in multiple times a day

0:16.3

from folks asking what height rings should I get and I think that there's a number of things that can go into your decision.

0:24.4

There's a number of different angles you can take as far as sight height goes.

0:29.4

Just to name a few, one of the ones that I know hits a lot of people's minds right away is will

0:33.3

the objective bell clear on the front end of the gun there's also shooter comfort as

0:38.1

in how high your scope is you know how much of it what your cheek weld is gonna end up

0:41.9

being you know sight height is

0:44.0

something you have to plug into your ballistics solution or your ballistics

0:47.9

calculator. It's one of those things that needs to be considered. And then there are

0:51.4

some things out there, you know, I know some people are just like,

0:53.4

I gotta get it as low as possible.

0:55.6

And then there's other people out there with ARs and go fast stuff that are kicking doors

0:59.0

that say, I gotta get it up really high, up above like two inches above the barrel

1:02.3

for all these, or two inches above the barrel for all these or two

1:03.5

inches above the rail for that matter. So Rube what what do you see when you see

1:08.3

sight height what's what's really important about it what are some interesting

1:11.1

topics around or interesting points around it?

1:14.0

When I was working behind a gun counter, you would oftentimes get the, you know, the question of what

1:19.0

height rings do we use? And if we were mounting a scope for a customer, a lot of the times we would, you know,

1:24.4

mount it up with a couple of different heights and see what's comfortable.

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