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#10MinuteTalk - “Over-Torqued Rings”

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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

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If you hunt, shoot or compete with an optics-equipped firearm, this could be the most important information you hear or that you can give to your friends to create the most reliable, accurate and repeatable setup possible. “Over-Torqued Rings” is a phrase we’ve mentioned in the past on the podcast and one you may have heard about on the internet from time to time. There’s all kinds of different rings/mounts/specs/ideas/theories out there that can make actually getting the right information on how to properly tighten the rings around your scope tube difficult. While it’s nearly impossible for us to go through every single ring/mount ever created, Jimmy and Mark give a breakdown on the most common ring/mount types we see and not only how to set them up properly, but also why it’s so important that you do. We also talk about scope position in the rings, why the use of thread locker is unnecessary for your ring screws, and a bunch more…    *Please note* - When Jimmy discussed the torque sequence for vertically split rings, the “Top first, then bottom” is the specific sequence we recommend for our older “Pro” or “Viper” series of rings, which are unique in and of themselves being that they’re not like other vertically split rings like those from Warne, American Defense, LaRue, etc. For some of those rings/mounts, we will actually recommend doing the bottoms first, to around 25 inch pounds, and then the tops to our recommended 15-18 inch pounds. Like we said in the podcast – there are so many ring/mount types, it’s always worth it to give us a call when mounting up your scope with a non-Vortex ring/mount to get a second opinion before diving in!

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here and we're going to talk about rings and more

0:05.1

specifically torquing your rings properly or over-torked rings are something that we see

0:11.9

a lot or you may hear us talk about from time to time.

0:14.7

I think it's come up on a number of our podcast even we did a series where we had

0:18.7

the one and only esteemed colleague Mr Ryan Muckenhn, going through the process of there's an

0:23.8

episode of mounting up a rifle scope properly. You can listen to that. We did it in a

0:27.1

fashion where you could actually follow along while mounting your own rifle scope.

0:30.4

And then the process of sighting in and you know we've got all kinds of other stuff

0:34.4

but everything we've ever talked about in terms of rifle scopes we've got

0:39.7

all these long-range podcasts with a bunch of listens on them and downloads and stuff.

0:43.4

We've got long-range or just even regular hunting podcasts, target shooting, any kind of

0:50.1

competitive shooting, anything that involves a rifle scope on your gun is pretty much hinges

0:56.2

upon this one thing.

0:59.2

You took the exact word out of my mouth, Jim.

1:02.0

The performance of any of these rifle scope ring-based systems you took

1:09.2

it hinges hinges on getting that scope mounted properly.

1:13.4

Yeah, get the greatest most expensive Gucci custom built rifle on the planet and equally

1:19.7

as expensive and Gucci and amazing of a rifle scope on top of it and you mount it up either with low quality rings or even high

1:27.3

quality rings but just done improperly and the whole thing might as well be

1:32.0

a giant paper weight.

1:33.0

So a couple of notes on that that we're going to talk about here.

1:36.4

It is just Jimmy and Mark, actually at this point in time.

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