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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Long Range Scopes and Other Optics
Picatiny rail or not?
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<blockquote data-quote="Garycrow" data-source="post: 1550273" data-attributes="member: 30743"><p>This^^ plus many benchrest rifles are set up in a right bolt/left port configuration which a rail would interfere with. They're also mostly shooting cartridges like the 6PPC with light bullets out of 17 lb. rifles which means they have essentially no recoil.</p><p></p><p>Rings and bases aren't magic, if they don't move on you and are properly aligned then one type is pretty much as good as the other. Rails are easy to build in MOA for longer range, they're tough and don't tend to move, offer a lot of fore/aft mounting options, and are easy to swap scopes with since you can quickly remove the rings from the base. They're a good system but any base/ring combo a benchrest guy is using is going to be good too or else he won't be competitive. They're either solid or they're not, and rails with good rings are a proven system that will rarely fail you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Garycrow, post: 1550273, member: 30743"] This^^ plus many benchrest rifles are set up in a right bolt/left port configuration which a rail would interfere with. They're also mostly shooting cartridges like the 6PPC with light bullets out of 17 lb. rifles which means they have essentially no recoil. Rings and bases aren't magic, if they don't move on you and are properly aligned then one type is pretty much as good as the other. Rails are easy to build in MOA for longer range, they're tough and don't tend to move, offer a lot of fore/aft mounting options, and are easy to swap scopes with since you can quickly remove the rings from the base. They're a good system but any base/ring combo a benchrest guy is using is going to be good too or else he won't be competitive. They're either solid or they're not, and rails with good rings are a proven system that will rarely fail you. [/QUOTE]
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