Who likes 'Detachable scope rings'

Varmit

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I ordered a scope from Prophet River and decided to give the Talley detachable rings a try. I have never used them before. I thought they would be nice to switch the scope easily to another rifle (I ordered two sets of bases) and removing the scope for airline travel, or if I just want to store the scope off the rifle.

How popular are they?
 
I like the idea, but haven't actually got any guns set up with detachable rings. I do have the Cad-Technik mount for Lee Enfield No.4s and No.5s, on which scope and rings stay attached and the top part of the mount comes off. This is useful because you can use the iron sights (haven't needed to so far,) and you can raise the rear sight to get the bolt out of the gun for cleaning..
 
I have a couple of rifles with them, for the same reason you mentioned, airline travel.

Both sets are excellent and IMHO very expensive.

The only thing that is better about them over regular bases is that they remove without special tools very quickly.

They hold zero well, when they've been resighted and reinstalled. They are close when reinstalled but not quite close enough and in all honesty, they do need to be checked.

The best set I have for retaining accuracy come from IOR VALDADA. The other set is made by leupold. Both heavy, both expensive and reasonably reliable.

If your first shots after remounting the scope, don't need to be any closer than 4 inches/100 meters, you might get away without rezeroing.
 
QD rings are made to allow the scope to be removed from a rifle for travel, storage, or to use the iron sights, just as others have posted. They are not suitable for sharing a scope between rifles without re-zeroing, as the zero only works in relation to the rail on the rifle.

Presumably one could set the scope turrets to nominal after zeroing on rifle 1, and then readjust the scope to a zero on rifle 2 by making the required adjustments. If you recorded the differences it would at least allow you to ballpark the two zero adjustments and adjust back and forth.

Seems it would be easier to buy another scope, frankly, and properly sight each one.
 
i usedn a lot EAW in those old days in Europe but i find any QR weaver, or Leupold QR and Warne QR better for the price.

there are more than fixed ones but if you have open sights, or a second optic ready or just raveling they re made for that.
 
I agree with DocB, the idea of switching a scope back and forth between more than one rifle, keeping track of the various zero settings involved, seems a bit impractical. I also don't remove the scope before storing the gun, although it would save a bit of space inside the safe. The place where the QD's really shine is in travelling to hunt. Taking down the gun to better fit into a compact case makes air travel much easier, and the option of two scopes, each one pre-sighted in its own set of QD rings, is comforting on the off chance that you have a scope problem somewhere on the far side of the planet on an expensive hunt.
 
The fact that Talley rings are recessed into their base rather than just sitting on it, results in a very strong mount.

Talley QDs and a Talley ghost ring . . .
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I've got Leupold QR's on a 416 Rem Mag and a couple of muzzleloaders which have open sights on them.

I do get a kick out of guys with QR's on rifles with no sights.:D

I asked one guy what his backup scope was and got nothing but a blank stare.:p
 
Boomer said:
The fact that Talley rings are recessed into their base rather than just sitting on it, results in a very strong mount.

Talley QDs and a Talley ghost ring . . .H:S
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Boomer,

How do you like using the "scout scope" setup? I know it is a pretty subjective assessment, but wondering if it as fast as some say it it?

Ted
 
Why not? said:
Boomer,

How do you like using the "scout scope" setup? I know it is a pretty subjective assessment, but wondering if it as fast as some say it it?

Ted
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I like it. If you are the type of shooter that needs to squeeze his non-shooting eye closed, you might find its not as quick as a conventional scope with a wide field of view. But if you shoot with both eyes open, while you are aware of the tube diameter, your field of view is almost unimpeded.

You might have already seen this, but it illustrates how a moving target can be easily tracked with a scout scope, just click on the pic . . .
 
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