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Hell no. Weavers suck. Modern or otherwise...


This set-up is better than any new modern alloy pos weaver. Steel tube is better:

Hard to beat a 4x or 8x steel tube Weaver with a Lee Dot.

Easy to beat. Wait until your steel tube Weaver fogs up. They weren't nitrogen purged (one reason why you can unscrew them so easily) and one big reason Leupold and Redfield were superior in their day, and now.

I've never had an issue with fogging, but I also don't hunt in the rain as much as you must. I have had problems enough with a Vari-x III that it went back to the factory for repairs twice. I gave up on the cheap VX-1 Leupolds. I never had a problem with Redfields, except that my dad loved his so much he wouldn't let me keep it on the M700 Remington he gave me.

bsa, what kind of problems did the vertical Talleys give you? also since you got a 42mm Nikon with a scope cover to fit with room to spare, I,m wondering now if the Talley lows will be low ENOUGH with the relatively slim profile of the non-AO 40mm Leupolds.
John

Just so happens I have a really nice, almost minty in appearance, Buehler set....bases and rings for a Model 70 that I'm going to sell if interested.

The Talley steel rings and bases are built like a tank. I really like the looks of them, but the Leupold DD's are trimmer/lighter and not quite as bulky, and a little more pleasing to my eye. The steel talleys are a tad harder to get the scope crosshairs dialed in. Putting a scope in to them is a 3 handed guy kind of job too. I like simple as most of you guys know by now and the DD's and Talley lightweights are as simple as them come. Absolutely no flies on the steel Talleys though. You are right about the lows still being pretty high for lows. You can see in one of my previous pictures how the Leupold 3-9x40 fit in them. The objective is still off the barrel a little more than I like. As with anything, it's mostly about personal preference. Hopefully the pictures I posted, will help to give you an idea on how different scope/ring combos look. Good luck with it...

A 3.5-10X Leupold in Conetrol's.



A 1.5-5X Leupold in Talley QD's.



Same rifle with a 1.75-6X Leupold in Michael Scherz bases with Matt Williams rings. The rings being a bit lower than Talley's.

To my eyes Conetrols are the nicest looking "factory" rings/bases. I'll freely admit they are a pain in the butt to install though, but that is short lived. I have a set on a 700 mtn rifle that I am really warming up to, and as a bonus, to me, they are approx. .100 lower than the previous Talley LWs.

Oh, that is nice!