I HATE millet rings

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the_big_mike

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Especially those freaking angle loc ones.. the windage adjustable ones.

URGHHHH I HATE THEM.

Mounting a scope perfectly has never been so time consuming.
 
I like apples, and Fridays, walks by the duck pond, and millett rings, especially those windage adjustable ones.....:)


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They are a little ugly but the windage feature is good and you get them in three hights - not common in .22 without paying a lot of money.
I try to center them in the screws, and install them on the gun.
I put a 3 foot piece of 1 inch dowel in the rings and adjust them till the dowel is running straight down the barrel. Then I lock them down.
 
I had a couple pairs of those Millets, but sold them off and bought ZEE rings instead

................ MUCH BETTER! :)



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I like apples too, and Monday's, walks by the duck pond, and TPS/and Near rings I hate the millet rings especially those windage adjustable ones.....



Jamie
 
Millet rings are a pain to install but we carry them to solve mounting height issues and also where windage adjustment is required. I guess I've installed so many that I'm used to the problems. I use a lapping bar and a bore sighter (early in the assembly) so I won't "get lost in space" and not know where my scope is pointing. Certainly not my favourite ring but they do serve a function when required. Phil.
 
Damn that's what I bought on a recomondation to mount a scope on my Rem 700. Are they that troublesome?
I'm a greenhorn scope mounter too. :bangHead:
 
I don't hate them, but I do prefer Burris rings. Even cheap Weaver rings have a certain appeal: lots of surface area for a solid non-marking grip on the scope tube. Milletts are fine, but a little on the finicky side and I certainly wouldn't reach for them first
 
P of PDent said:
Millet rings are a pain to install but we carry them to solve mounting height issues and also where windage adjustment is required.
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Exactly, I always tried to keep a few sets to hand for rifles with alignment issues, particularly the Lee Enfields wearing T01 bases that were skewed. I was usually able to zip them on and off in a hurry, with very little fuss.
There are very few rings that I rate super high, and that includes the Milletts, but they sure are handy.
 
I'm a poor bastard... so I'll offer to take all those Angle-Loc rings off yer hands. 30mm and / or 1 inch versions in any height. Just PM me and send them to yours truly. Someone has to give them a home and that's me....:)

Dunno about your grief, but like Phil of P & D Enterprises, I've mounted and zeroed so many of them that I've got it down to a science. Whatever works for you.

Many people laugh at my Service Rifle rig mounted with Millett Angle-Loc rings, but they stop laughing after I've been requested by the November Company 3RCR range staff to have my trigger weighed after shooting a 50.6V at 300m Match #5 and immediately after that, I shot another possible. The score was a 50.8V in Match # 6. For those of you who are not familiar, I'm referring to the 12 matches of CFSAC/NSCC.

When I shot the 50.8V, I was informed that a Ghurka Sergeant beat my score at match # 6, the 300m Snap match by shooting a 50.9V. I was honored. He asked me at the Medals ceremony WTF was I doing there. I told him that I'm a schoolteacher on a welfare budget, so I shoot with Millett Angle-Loc rings...

Okay, I'm embellishing it here... but he did ask me why a civvie was on the podium with him. LOL LOL I told him that I was not allowed to shoot in uniform (CIC officer), so I grabbed a Hawaii shirt and shot that match for shzts and giggles.

By the way, the next week I was told the I won the DCRA's KING Medal, which is the top aggregate for the 200m, 300m and 500m Deliberate Matches. Not bad for a disabled, fat, and now ugly schoolteacher. yuk yuk yuk

Okay, back to the Millett Angle-Locs.

If you guys don't want them, just send them to me !! I'll take them... Honestly. LOL

YMMV !!

Thanks for the walk down memory lane...

Barney
 
I have used them on a number of rifles that had been drilled and tapped off centre and they worked great!

Also used a set on a SAKO 375 H&H for a few years and they never changed point of impact. The moose and bears really hated them. :D

Ted
 
They're great! Sure they can be a bit of a pain to get mounted straight, but that comes with the territory when a ring is adjustable for windage.

If they weren't adjustable, they would be simpler to mount. Would somebody then start #####ing that they should be adjustable?
 
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