Generally black rings with a black scope whether the rifle is stainless or blued. Don't own a silver scope.

Exceptions being if the silver rings come with the rifle, like they did with my stainless Hawkeyes and the Tikka. In those cases I just use their silver rings.

Even with the black scopes I've been known to match matte rings with a gloss scope or vice versa if that's what I had on hand.

Overall, though, it's not something that keeps me up at night. I'll admit that it used to, but not anymore.


Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!