Scope Mounting Advice Needed

[7br]

Mounting a Vortex scope using Burris Signature rings on my grandson’s 7mm Remington Magnum. Burris says tighten the rings at 30 inch pounds. Vortex says no more than 18 inch pounds. As I said it’s going on a 7 mag and I don’t want the scope to move. Appreciate any advice.

 

[CJ6]

Mounting a Vortex scope using Burris Signature rings on my grandson’s 7mm Remington Magnum. Burris says tighten the rings at 30 inch pounds. Vortex says no more than 18 inch pounds. As I said it’s going on a 7 mag and I don’t want the scope to move. Appreciate any advice.

Vortex is using their ring specs for torque. Burris is using their torque specs for their rings. Use the Burris specs for Burris rings.
I use Burris rings on my 416 Rigby and never had any issues, in fact all but 1 rifle have Burris rings on them.

 

[7br]

Thank you

 

[cwebster]

Thank you

Burris had some bad info for ring torque on some of their packaging. I dont know if they have fixed that or not but no way do you want to torque ring tops to 30in. 18 or so is plenty. Burris has that info on their site now.

 

[6MMsteve]

Burris had some bad info for ring torque on some of their packaging. I dont know if they have fixed that or not but no way do you want to torque ring tops to 30in. 18 or so is plenty. Burris has that info on their site now.

yes 18 is plenty, but when u torque and click or beep keep going around until the screw no longer moves, that saying 15 is plenty but make sure the screw is not moving that's how I do it....it may take 4 trips around in the sequence but u will have 15 or 18 for sure with no screw moving...if this makes any sense

 

[3Ackleys]

If you are going to use 18 In/lb, put a pencil mark on the scope tube so you can see when the scope moves under recoil. At 25 In/lb is where scopes stop moving under recoil in large centerfire rifles. If a scope will not handle 25 In/lb +, it is going to fail anyway.

 

[7br]

Burris had some bad info for ring torque on some of their packaging. I dont know if they have fixed that or not but no way do you want to torque ring tops to 30in. 18 or so is plenty. Burris has that info on their site now.

I went to their site and indeed the recommended torque is now listed at 20 inch pounds. Thank you all for your helpful information.

 

[Bugs]

+1 on all of the posts that state 15 - 16 inch pounds is plenty

 

[ronemus]

The polymer inserts in Signature rings grip better than metal -on-metal does with standard rings, and they spread the load more evenly; they're all I use. I have a Burris F-Class MOA 8-40x50 scope on a .338 Lapua, and it hasn't moved after several hundred shots when tightened at the recommended torque.