I like Weaver R&B. Have used them on 3 or 4 375s without any issue at all.
Does that make me a pleb?
Lol, yep...or at the very least, you have plebian tastes!
I like a lot of things about Weavers. They seem to hold as well as anything on the market; they're cheap...not merely inexpensive, but also cheap...and they actually can be removed and replaced with pretty decent return-to-zero. IMHO their main appeal is that, as ugly as they are, they look right on some rifles. An older, well-worn, gloss-blued rifle seems just right for them, and they for it. But even on those guns I'd prefer one of the old STD-style set-ups made by Leupold, Redfield or Burris; those are another highly over-rated system from the good ol' days that also have the right "look".
But if, like me, you are constantly playing musical scopes as you mix and match to find those elusive perfect scope/rifle pairings...Weavers are a major PITA. Tightening down the upper straps on the rings inevitably causes the scope to rotate slightly towards the screws, and the art of starting off with the scope slightly rotated in the opposite direction to counteract this is something I have never mastered; there's always a lot of tightening, loosening, re-tightening, re-loosening, re-re-tightening, etc. before I get them juuuust right.
OP, your gun sounds like a nice one; more importantly, your description of it as "lovely" implies that you want something nice for scope rings. The Weavers ain't it.
