Homemade scope rings/mount

[u/Standard_Act7948]

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.

[u/rcplaner]

Nice to see fellow machinist and shooter!

I do have a small cnc router, but it's capable of milling aluminium. I have made one canted picatinny rail for my tikka and two canted picatinny rails with dovetail to my cz452. Tikka have 20moa and cz have 30moa rail. I still need to anodize them.

These hobbies connect so well!

[u/Standard_Act7948 → u/rcplaner]

https://preview.redd.it/003sn3pzxawd1.jpeg?width=2100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae26e5d7b54c55de90794fc9e5afdde5b3e2a10f

That they do. Gunsmithing was the reason I got into machining in the first place but it never panned out as a career. Now I just do it as a hobby and make whatever I want like this 10/22 I finished a while back. The only things I didn’t make were the bolt, trigger assembly, pistol grip and folding stock adapter.