I'm posting this mostly as a curiosity, we got the rifle together and things seem to work. I found this to be an oddity though.
A buddy of mine won a gun raffle and is the proud owner of a brand new Ruger American in .450 bushmaster. Its the camo stock, tan cerakote model and it came with a scope on it (yeah I never win anything either and I'm jealous too). I have no idea if it was the package deal that ruger sells, or if the raffle organizer put the rifle and scope together, but the scope is a Weaver 3-9x40 with no model designation on it.
The base is a typical weaver style base that I would guess came with the rifle. The rings are 6 screw rings, that appear to be the "6 hole skeleton rings" sold by weaver. They have the hex nut on the base, and 6 torx screws per ring. What is weird, is the rings are super oversize for the scope, and have a separate half moon shaped aluminum block that you put in the ring with the scope... I have never seen this before and can't say that I like the idea.
Is this common practice? Does it work, or is he going to have problems with the scope creeping in the rings?
The shop he picked it up from did the paperwork and told him they bore sighted the scope, and we found that they had it mounted with the rear ring crossbolt out of the groove and everything cranked down crooked. We took it completely apart and started over and it all seems to be in working order now, but I am really curious about this ring set up.
A buddy of mine won a gun raffle and is the proud owner of a brand new Ruger American in .450 bushmaster. Its the camo stock, tan cerakote model and it came with a scope on it (yeah I never win anything either and I'm jealous too). I have no idea if it was the package deal that ruger sells, or if the raffle organizer put the rifle and scope together, but the scope is a Weaver 3-9x40 with no model designation on it.
The base is a typical weaver style base that I would guess came with the rifle. The rings are 6 screw rings, that appear to be the "6 hole skeleton rings" sold by weaver. They have the hex nut on the base, and 6 torx screws per ring. What is weird, is the rings are super oversize for the scope, and have a separate half moon shaped aluminum block that you put in the ring with the scope... I have never seen this before and can't say that I like the idea.
Is this common practice? Does it work, or is he going to have problems with the scope creeping in the rings?
The shop he picked it up from did the paperwork and told him they bore sighted the scope, and we found that they had it mounted with the rear ring crossbolt out of the groove and everything cranked down crooked. We took it completely apart and started over and it all seems to be in working order now, but I am really curious about this ring set up.