Picked up a remington 700 sps and am looking to set it up for 300-500 yards. Down the road maybe farther. Looking for advice on what I should use for a base. Iv been reading a bit and seeing some people are using 15 moa rail some 20 moa. Will it make that much of a differance from 15-20?
Scope base advice
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What caliber? With many of the 30mm long range scopes a .300 will dial to 1000 yards with a flat mount and just about anything will get you out well past the distances you're talking. Most people would be better off if they had never heard of rails and wouldn't end up with their scopes mounted high like a watermelon on a fence post while they struggle to load the rifle with-out tweezers and search online for cheap adjustable cheek-pieces and shoot with the turret bottomed out at its lowest setting.
Thank you, sir! This needed to be said. I can almost hear the gasps of disbelief and dismay from the tacticool crowd and the long-rangers, furiously spinning the dials on their Scorpion and King Optics sniper scopes.
The caliber is .300 rum I just wasn't sure what was needed. I wasn't going to get a rail until I started reading, some articles said it was a good idea to a one. I'm new to to shooting over 200, and didn't want to buy mounts and rings only to find out I run out of adjustment. Thanks for the input guys.
Do you have a scope picked out yet? My .300 RUM is mounted with a 4.5-14 Mark 4 with 100 MOA of elevation. Say when you sight in it comes in around the center of the adjustment range. That leaves you 50 MOA left for elevation. Say you don't want to get anywhere near the end so you stay back 10 MOA from the end. You still have 40 to play with.
Just for an example I'll use my own rifle and a couple different hunting bullets. Ones a 180 Accu-bond at 3300 fps and the other is a 180 Swift Scirocco at 3400 fps. The 1000 yard come-ups from a 100 yard zero are 22 and 20 MOA respectively. I doubt that you have anything to worry about at 500 with just about any combination. 20 MOA rails are for snowballs, arrows, 44-40s, scopes with little adjustment, .308s
and junk like that.
Have you done a lot of shooting with lightweight rifles? A .300 RUM in an SPS is going to get a little lively.
Just for an example I'll use my own rifle and a couple different hunting bullets. Ones a 180 Accu-bond at 3300 fps and the other is a 180 Swift Scirocco at 3400 fps. The 1000 yard come-ups from a 100 yard zero are 22 and 20 MOA respectively. I doubt that you have anything to worry about at 500 with just about any combination. 20 MOA rails are for snowballs, arrows, 44-40s, scopes with little adjustment, .308s
and junk like that.Have you done a lot of shooting with lightweight rifles? A .300 RUM in an SPS is going to get a little lively.
Iv used a few mid-heavy recoil rifles, .444, 9.3x62, .338 win mag in the past. I picked up the sps because I got a great deal and I can build it up. For a scope I'm looking at a sightron sII 6-24x42 I can pick one up locally for $450 or so and iv been using tally lightweight bases/ rings so I'm thinking of picking up another pair.
