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Well after purchasing a Schmidt Bender 12x50 second focal plane scope for 1 of my rifles and finding that I really like it I soon discovered that there is a real lacking in the selection of rings.:mad:
Most are too high, the only low ones I could find are always out of stock with the manufacturer. SO we decided we would make our own. Having a 5 axis wire EDM has its benefits.:D
We make them out of 4140 rather than the mild steel many rings are made of and the entire ring is cut out of bar stock in 1 operation, so they are 100% perfect in tolerance.
Once the EDM is done all that is left is to set them into the CNC mill and drill and tap the screw holes.
Being as the SB scopes seem to not have a ton of spare real estate on their tubes we kept our rings down to a reasonable width of .600 and rather than the ton of itty bitty screws that some makes employ we opted for just 2 BIG ones, so on either side of the ring cap is an 8x40 torx head screw so that even torque can be achieved. These rings easily withstand the recoil of 50 BMG and being as they are made in matched sets require NO lapping, assuming your mounting rail is true and straight.
The cross bolt is standard 1/4" with a 7/16" tension nut and the rings are true 1913 Picatinny spec for mounting to the rail. Being 4140 we opted to hot blue them rather than parkerize them as they look real purdy.
Keeping with our PROUDLY Made IN Canada mantra the rings are engraved with our standard Maple Leaf logo found on nearly everything we manufacture.
Pricing is $225.00 per matched set.
Photos to follow.
 
Sorry I forgot to upload the photo to CGN, they have supposed to have been on our website for a few weeks now too. :redface:

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Thinking of picking up a pair of your 34mm rings. Your 34mm rings are now made of 7075 aluminum correct?

I hear nothing but good things. But if you were going to convince someone to buy your rings over the competition, how would you say they fare compared to the Nightforce or Seekins 34mm rings?
 
Boreas said:
Thinking of picking up a pair of your 34mm rings. Your 34mm rings are now made of 7075 aluminum correct?

I hear nothing but good things. But if you were going to convince someone to buy your rings over the competition, how would you say they fare compared to the Nightforce or Seekins 34mm rings?
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Stronger and much more precisely made and without the large gap between the ring halves.
AND All Canadian made:D
 
Are they now made of aluminum?

I always thought the gap was because various scope manufacturers have slightly different thicknesses. I'm sure you know more about it than I do.
 
Caleb314 said:
It says its made of 4140 and thats carbon steel.
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Actually back then (2012) we were first started making them we did so out of 4140, then switched to 17-4 stainless and recently started to offer them in 7075 T651 aluminum simply to keep the weight down while retaining all the structure of steel.
We have also switched the cross bolt nuts to a more conventional style that we make in-house.
 
Boreas said:
Are they now made of aluminum?

I always thought the gap was because various scope manufacturers have slightly different thicknesses. I'm sure you know more about it than I do.
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Actually the gap is because it is easier/cheaper to machine a mass of separate parts and have them fit each other regardless as the tolerances as so loose.
Machining rings the way we do is much less cost effective, but you get a precisely mated "pair" of rings that require NO lapping and because they are made as a set in 1 piece there is only a .010 gap between the ring halves.

The big downside I see to any ring with a big gap is that it is easily possible to crush the scope tube by over tightening the ring screws, with out rings it is virtually impossible to crush a tube.
FWIW to replace the scope tube on a NF scope figuring in shipping to and from Idaho is just under $800.00. We just got the estimate of repair back on a scope that the tube was crushed using NF rings.:(
 
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Ok, final question. If the 34mm rings are made with 7075 aluminum and use the same cross bolt system as the 30mm rings. Why are they still $50 more? What difference other than being slightly larger justifies a 33% price increase?

I do wish you made a "super low" 34mm variant that was in the range of .92" Like a few other manufacturers.
 
Boreas said:
Ok, final question. If the 34mm rings are made with 7075 aluminum and use the same cross bolt system as the 30mm rings. Why are they still $50 more? What difference other than being slightly larger justifies a 33% price increase?

I do wish you made a "super low" 34mm variant that was in the range of .92" Like a few other manufacturers.
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The 34s use larger material and waste is significantly more. It boils down to material cost differences and a longer run time in the machines.
As for super low rings, if there was enough demand it could happen.
Every set of super low 34s we ever sold came back to be exchanged for lows back when we carried TPS. With the larger objective scopes being the lions share of the market coupled with the number of rifles that have full length rails we get far more call for super highs, so are making them in 1.375 and 1.5" heights.
 
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