Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Remington 700 Mountain Rifle LSS - What rings?

Can someone tell me if a Leupold VX-2 4-12 (non AO) will work with low rings on this gun? it came with medium Leupolds, but I want to go as low as possible.

40 mm or 50 mm ?

It should work. I have a few 40's with no issues.

If you already have the rifle, scope, and bases, try this.

Coin Trick

Sorry, 40mm

I think that low Leupold turn-in style rings will work with the non-AO 40mm objective bell, but might be too low for the bolt handle to clear the ocular bell.

Pretty funny, that’s one of tricks I did trying to figure out what would happen milling out LW’s. I put rubber bands around the tube to hold things in place......after I dumped my coveted M8 on the bench.

Unless you are going to "dial in" for the longer shots, the Low rings will hinder you. Example; I had worked up a 160gr 2800fps load for a MR 280 ( reamed to AI) using Medium rings. I zeroed it +3" high and shot it out to 300 to see where it hit. I then, enamored with magazine articles, put a set of Low rings on it ( had a 2x7 VII on it) and went to the range, set it +3". Next day went to kill a doe antelope. I shot at one that was right at 300yds ( off the hood of my Pathfinder!) and shot under her! I drove over and found another one, crawled up and shot her at 75yds. I went to the range the next day, and sure enough, I'm several inches low at 300 from my previous shooting. I lay awake, trying figure out what happened when it came to me " you changed rings doofus"! I got up, put the Medium rings back on, checked it next day after zeroing +3" at 100...back to my original ballistic curve! So, your situation may be totally different, but to me, Lows are better for very close hunting/shooting dangerous game rifles. Give it some thought, BUT, don't et in the other ditch and put a set of Ulra High rings on either, lol. Have fun dude, its all wonderful!

Jim, while I think about such things also, it seems to me like there might be more at work there than just a few tenths of an inch in mounting height? Out of curiousity, I looked at JBM with a 2,800fps 160NAB load, using a 1.5" mounting height vs. a 1.9" height. Being 3" high at 100yds for both gave only a 10yd+/- difference in zero range (about 250ys vs 260yds) and the impact at 300yds was indicated to be less than an inch apart for the two mounting heights. I agree with the concept of mounting height being something to take into account for short range trajectory, but have not heard of it being enough of a difference to miss a big game animal at reasonable range.

I just ran the situation through the Hornady calculator, and changing from 1.5" to 1.75" on the line of sight over bore height setting does not account for several inches of drop difference at 300 yards in the scenario described.

JPro beat me to it.

The scope was not a parallax adjustable model. A possibility is parallax in the vertical direction caused by head position change with the different heights of rings.

You guys are probably spot on. I think it was a combination of parallax and the ring height changing the eye position. Anyhow, being the OCD guy I can be....no more Low scopes for "me", ha.