Best Rings for AR-50A1?

You might take a look at the new Aadland rings.  They are aluminum, but appear well engineered.  They look better than the Nightforce rings and have a greater gripping surface.  SWFA sells them.

All nice.  338LapuaSlap got some of the Barrett's and loves them.  You should also give Near Mfg a look.  The Alphamount is outstanding...

My opinion on the BORS... it's an awful pricey piece of gear for something you can have in a PDA for a lot less money.  It is not as "high tech" as I expected it to be.   It's nice, just not indispensable.  It does provide some freedom, but is also heavy.  Lots of tradeoffs to consider before plunking down the dollars for that piece of gear.  I opted out on it.  

I have a Hensoldt 6-24x72 with a 1.4inch ring height and possibly could have gone with the next lower size... you can go considerably lower than that.  

Edited by Kickboxer - June/04/2011 at 00:14

Scylla,

I would recommend Badger, Nightforce, Barrett, all of those rings with a caveat.  What I have ended up using is the Armalite one piece base because the rifle is so big and heavy and single piece base is very easy to mount and unmount for transportation.  What I have heard from a fellow FCSA shooter was that he sent his rifle via UPS in an aluminum hard case and was received with a dent from the bolt handle protruding outward in the case top from rough handling.  Now I know that you would not do such a thing but the point that I am making is the inertia of a 30 lb plus rifle is really more than the foam of a hard case can handle and I don’t want to subject my optics to such potential damage.  If you decide on the Armalite single piece base I would strongly recommend a good lapping kit and when finished lapping permanently marking the alignment of the pieces.

Regards,

The cheekpiece has considerable adjustment, up and down, and I prefer the lowest cheek weld possible.

I would go for a unimount on this.

Cannot dial it down enough? That is the opposite of what a canted base does.

If your scope is indeed maxed out at the bottom of the adjustment range, something is very wrong.

Assuming a centered rifle scope, adding a canted base would have your point of impact go down, so you would click up to adjust, right. That gives you more down clicks for elevation changes at range. Unless I misunderstood him, he said he could not dial down enough, so he is bottomed out, meaning all clicks are up clicks, which are elevation changes that would bring the muzzle down, therefore take range from the setup, and not give to.

Or have I had too much coffee this morning?

Exactly, and to again shift the POA to match to original POI (15MOA below the new POA, you would move the reticle UP to match. Moving the reticle up moves the muzzle down. Those up clicks are now available as down clicks for elevation changes at longer distances.

Amen above says he has a 15MOA base and no down clicks left. Or that is how I interpreted his post. And I could be wrong. And if so, will switch to decaf.