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Picatinny Rail with or without built in moa?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dragoon300" data-source="post: 2514151" data-attributes="member: 115285"><p>Mike,</p><p>Find the "Elevation Range" if the scopes you are interested in. Nightforce does give that information in their "specifications" for each scope. Definitely get a one piece steel picatinny rail with an anti recoil feature like Badger Ordnance has. (I highly recommend Badger Ordnance) </p><p>The best rings / mount I know of are one piece Spuhr.</p><p>They make from zero MOA inclination to over 44 MOA mounts, you can get away with a zero MOA rail and still have all the inclination in the mount. They are a real nice piece of equipment. I just picked up one of their 34 mm x 38 mm high with 13 Mil / 44.4 MOA for a Vortex Strike Eagle 5-25 x 56 MRAD with 31 Mils of elevation range. So 31 ÷ 2 = 15.5 + 13 = 28.5 Mils of elevation.</p><p>Do the math on the scope you decide on and go for close to the max elevation range by choosing a rail or mount with the closest inclination. </p><p>The next thing is how high should the mount be?</p><p>I make a drawing of the scope to the manufacturers dimensions, then the profile of the pic rail and top of the rifle and overlay them where I want them to be. MOA angle in degrees can be found online (30 MOA = 1/2 degree) so rotate the scope around the center of the turret to the degree and measure center of the tube at the turrets to the top of the rail, this is how high of a mount or rings you need.</p><p>I hope this helps you, if you would like some help PM me, I can do a 3D CAD drawing for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dragoon300, post: 2514151, member: 115285"] Mike, Find the "Elevation Range" if the scopes you are interested in. Nightforce does give that information in their "specifications" for each scope. Definitely get a one piece steel picatinny rail with an anti recoil feature like Badger Ordnance has. (I highly recommend Badger Ordnance) The best rings / mount I know of are one piece Spuhr. They make from zero MOA inclination to over 44 MOA mounts, you can get away with a zero MOA rail and still have all the inclination in the mount. They are a real nice piece of equipment. I just picked up one of their 34 mm x 38 mm high with 13 Mil / 44.4 MOA for a Vortex Strike Eagle 5-25 x 56 MRAD with 31 Mils of elevation range. So 31 ÷ 2 = 15.5 + 13 = 28.5 Mils of elevation. Do the math on the scope you decide on and go for close to the max elevation range by choosing a rail or mount with the closest inclination. The next thing is how high should the mount be? I make a drawing of the scope to the manufacturers dimensions, then the profile of the pic rail and top of the rifle and overlay them where I want them to be. MOA angle in degrees can be found online (30 MOA = 1/2 degree) so rotate the scope around the center of the turret to the degree and measure center of the tube at the turrets to the top of the rail, this is how high of a mount or rings you need. I hope this helps you, if you would like some help PM me, I can do a 3D CAD drawing for you. [/QUOTE]
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