Ruger Integral Rings

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I was going to mount a scope on the Ruger No.1 .303. The rifle has a built-in rail for rings, and came with a set of Ruger's proprietary rings. Seems like a pretty good idea.

So I mounted the rings, got out the lapping bar. This is what I got...





There is some #### QC at Ruger, as far as I can see. I've never had any set of rings, with such poor contact surface, after lapping them.
The pics aren't the best, but as bad as the back ring is, the front is much worse. There's almost no contact surface...



I'm not even going to bother installing the scope. The rings will reside in the parts box.



Brutal.
 
How do you know its the rings not the reciever i wouldnt be surprised if a new set was crooked the same way i would keep lapping i never looked if my ruger rings were like that before putting the scope i better not look now
 
Keep in mind that the ring surface alignment is also a function of the precision of the ring cuts and top surface of the receiver.

If it bothers you, you can also get a B-square "Ruger To Weaver Adapter" that uses the integral Ruger receiver "lugs".

Then you can use your favourite high-zoot QD weaver-mount rings.
 
I own several Hawkeyes and ran into a bit of trouble with one of them. Its a camo/stainless .30-06 with a Zeiss Conquest 3-9x40. I could tighten up the rings and within 4-5 rounds off the bench the front ring would come loose from the receiver. I wasn't tightening the daylights out of the screw but with sufficient torque that it should have stayed tight. At least on my other Hawkeyes the rings would stay tight with that amount of torque. This was repeated several times until I contacted Ruger about it. They gave me a tightening procedure to follow, which I can't remember now.....f:P: but after that I've had no problems.

After reading this thread and seeing the poor ring contact the op has I suspect an alignment issue on my rifle. I should probably check it out!
 
Ruger rings are the worst, sometimes the receivers aren't straight either. You should see how crooked my 270 is. Clamp the rings to the bar to get them half straight then tighten them down to the bases, see if that helps.
 
I've had issue with ruger rings as well. In one case the alignment was so bad no lapping in the world would of fixed it. The solution was a ruger to weaver adapter that allowed weaver mount style rings to be mounted. I had to then use burris rings with the plastic inserts. It solved the problem but you would think that well built rifle like a ruger would take just a little more time to be sure their system worked.
 
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