scope sliping, help

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nwt2002

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Okay I have had problmes with my .350 rem mag in 673. I have posted a ? on this gun before and got lots of help.

But i think i have narrowed it down, I took the gun apart and checked everything... I marked the scope with a pencil on both rings, after about 6 rounds through it i found that the rear ring had moved slightly. So i checked and found that the screws on the rings became loose.

I have not yet applied locktite, thats next.

My question is how tight do i tighten the rings??? I feel that if I apply any more pressue I am going to break the screw, yet they always seem to come loose. I am hoping loctite will fix the loosening problem..... but how tight??

any other help on keeping that scope fromm moving would be great.

I would take it in to a gun smith and have them look at it but there are no gun smiths within a 3hr drive....

thanks.
 
You didn't mention the make of rings...

I would however never recommend using loctite on ring screws. You would be simply loctiting loose screws in place and have a hell of a time removing them when your scope slips again.

The problem is not with the screws working loose... they are not tight to start with... I have never experienced a tight ring screw working loose.

I would recommend cleaning the tube and the inside of the rings well and then using powdered rosin and tighten the rings screws with a little lubricant on them so they will torque tight more easily than a dry fit.

Ring screws should be tight enough at 40 inch pounds.

Some cheap rings do not ever work well...
 
The problem is not with the screws working loose... they are not tight to start with... I have never experienced a tight ring screw working loose.
 
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Dennis, you're becoming a sh!t disturber.... I had the scope slip on my .22, but that was because it fell out of the rack at the range.... I slid it back to where it was supposed to be (pencil marks rule) and snugged her up to German Torque specification (Gutentight!) :p
 
Grizz Axxemann said:
Dennis, you're becoming a sh!t disturber.... I had the scope slip on my .22, but that was because it fell out of the rack at the range.... I slid it back to where it was supposed to be (pencil marks rule) and snugged her up to German Torque specification (Gutentight!) :p
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No no no...its 1 Dennis
15 beers in 3 hours
2 plates of nachos in the same time
Cooked porkchops still in the fridge...and i thought the palm sisters were knocking at my back door...:eek: :eek: = one person with way to much time on a puter and so on...:rolleyes:
 
Just had a idea while working on my remington .22 A easy way to see if your scope or mounts on a .22 would be to abbly a 1/16 piece of black pinstriping agains the receiver/scope mont or on the scope tube along side the ring to see if its slipping.
Wont come off like a pencil mark and is black and should look ok me thinks!!!!
 
I'd be more concerned with bending a tube than breaking a screw.

Scope caps are usually tightened 20-30 in-lbs.
 
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