Hey all. When tightening my dovetail 1 piece or 2 piece scope mounts to my AA Pro Sport I've just been elbowing it, to what feels right. Is there a torque figure on the base screws I can use to confirm my elbow that I'm at least not over-tightening it?
These dovetails are pretty minimalistic in their surface area of contact between matching surfaces of the rail in the barrel and the mount itself. I could see one over-tightening a mount and damaging the dovetail, either on the gun or mount or both.
My current mount is a 3 bolt rail, 1 piece mount. I put my torque driver to them to see what my "elbow feeI" measure out at and it's 35 in.lbs.
These dovetails are pretty minimalistic in their surface area of contact between matching surfaces of the rail in the barrel and the mount itself. I could see one over-tightening a mount and damaging the dovetail, either on the gun or mount or both.
My current mount is a 3 bolt rail, 1 piece mount. I put my torque driver to them to see what my "elbow feeI" measure out at and it's 35 in.lbs.
