UTG Ring Observation

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txaggie929

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Noticed something peculiar today....mounted up my scope in a set of UTG 30mm Quick Disconnect LE rings, the ones with 6 screws per ring. After barely tightening any of the screws, it seems its enough to impact POI at 20 yards and even enough to cause the parallax to knob to be hard to turn. I'm talking only tightening an 1/8-1/4 turn past the screw seating. Actually had to use blue loctite on all the screws to make sure they don't come loose. No, I don't have a a in/lb torque screwdriver, but I know that tightening with the allen key in between your fingers is less than 15 in/lbs.

So, went to UTG trying to find torque values, and there were none listed. It also appears that the 6 screw LE rings in 30mm are no longer available? Only 4 screw versions. Hmm...

Anybody else experienced this?

Might be time to step up to some better rings?
 
Maybe the scope is the issue? A weak main tube or something? I remember reading about someone having the same problem here and I think they blamed it on the scope. I want to say it was a MTC Viper Pro that they had but I could be wrong. Are these dovetail rings or Picatinny? I have always used BKL for dovetail and UTG Pro rings for picatinny. The UTG Pro are very nice and are made in USA and much better quality than the $10 UTG rings you normally see.
 
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As for worrying about stripping the ring screws......You'll crush the scope first.
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I don't own a SWFA scope (yet), but I was under the impression that they are built like tanks... only tightening the screws 1/8-1/4 turn passed screw seating sounds a bit weak to me. To my preference (your mileage may vary) I usually go a bit farther than that, and I have never crushed a scope (even the cheapos). It sounds like something else is at play here. Either one of your rings was machined wrong, is mounted off-center laterally, or something is up with the scope, which I find hard to believe, but stuff can and will happen at some point.
 
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I went ahead and just upped the game to what I run on my powder burners. Just ordered an American Defense Recon QD 1 piece mount that returns to zero so I never have to worry about this again. Taking my own advice of buy once, cry once.
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Roger that. Trying a Burris PEPR one piece to see if it will work as intended. China made but not garbage from the looks of it.
 
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