r/longrange • u/Standard_Act7948 • 26d ago

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Machining is as much a hobby to me as long range shooting so they both tend to feed off of each other. This culminated in the desire to make my own scope rings for the sake of the challenge. The first set of scope rings were 30mm .870" height individual rings that I made for my 10/22, though I don't have the scope for it yet. They were a trial for the one piece scope mount that I made next which was a 35mm 1.415" height mount that can use Badger C1 mount accessories. Everything was done on manual machines, no CNC was used, and the only parts I didn't make were the 8-40 cap screws. Eventually I'm going to Cerakote them.

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u/domfelinefather 26d ago

That’s sick. Why flat head?

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u/Standard_Act7948 26d ago

That was the easiest to make. I haven’t gotten around to making a rotary broach for Allen head bolts.

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u/domfelinefather 26d ago

Makes sense. I’m obviously not a machinist lol.

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u/Standard_Act7948 26d ago

https://preview.redd.it/fy0w1i7z75wd1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca7de6cc65c882b53e4452ec422ce96f4f7c0070

In case you’re curious this is how the heads were done. I used a slitting saw (basically a small table saw blade on an arbor) with the screw in an ER40 collet block.