I'm out here at Tulsa's red castle gun club to have a little fun today and
hopefully answer three of the most pressing questions that have been on
your mind recently first can you depend on quick-release rings to accurately
bring you back to zero you have to take your scope off and put
it back on second can you use two-piece rings like this or do you need a solid
one-piece base and then third can you depend on a maker of airsoft and
paintball products to bring you these features what we're looking at today are
the leapers utg law enforcement quick detached lock 30 millimeter rings and
this is a pack of 2 they cost 25 bucks I think for both of them in this one pack
they come in a variety of heights right here we have extra high which I don't
think are sold anymore I think these have been discontinued
these have a 25 millimeter saddle height and that's the height between the very
bottom of the base where it sits on the rifle and then the very bottom of the
inner diameter of the ring itself right now I'm using highs which have a 22
millimeter saddle height and that's because I just
wasn't getting a very good cheek weld with these I had been using these for a
good long time but these are much more comfortable I can have the same cheek
weld that I do with my red dot sight and my my iron sights which I love so much I
also have a set here of the mediums and then they also make low I can't remember
the exact height on these but it's it's probably somewhere around like 18
millimeter or something like that they also come in one inch inner diameter
size and these are all aluminum you can see they're pretty stout but how do they
work when you remove the scope from the rifle and put it back on do you actually
get the same point of impact between strings let's go find out
all right here are test parameters we're going to be firing two five shot
strings through this Rock River Arms ar-15 carbine it has a 16-inch kind of
heavy profile barrel especially under the handguard here as a 223 wild chamber
at the front we have a yhm titanium silencer and on top we have the Falcon 4
to 14 by 44 millimeter first focal plane rifle scope and if you want to know more
about this scope you can check out a review that I did a while back it's it's
very nice especially for the price and what we're gonna be firing today are
this gun's favorite loads this is a 75 grain boat tail hollow point from
Hornady it's backed by 24 and a half grains of reloader 15 and its size for
ar-15 magazines so it's exactly two and a quarter inches long alright and what
we're gonna be doing is firing at just a standard crosshair sort of target at
200 yards and let's see how it does
time for a new magazine all right scope is off shake it around a bit now
there is gonna be a little bit of loosen this front to back just a tiny little
bit it's a little bit of play which is you know sort of necessary so you can
actually have everything fit into place so what I do is when I put it in place
let's kind of cheat it forward that little half millimeter or whatever it is
lay it down
Group one turned out to be less than 1 MOA this is roughly I guess about 3/4
MOA considering that there are fewer than 2 inches between whole centers on
any of these axes and that's at 200 yards over here we're opening up to
about one and a half MOA things were pretty good down in here you saw that
second shot I got a high flyer it felt pretty good when I pulled the trigger so
what I think happened is that it wasn't a bad shot on my part I think I just
maybe had a little bit a high charge of powder
I've volume measured all these instead of weight measuring alright so you can
see from our own little test today that the
answers those three questions are all yes yes at least in my own testing and
this is going out prairie dog hunting coming out here to the range every so
often and getting the gun out that yes you can actually depend on these
quick-release rings to return you to zero each time you don't need a
one-piece bass you can use two rings instead and that these utg rings are
actually quite nice they work great I know that it may be kind of offensive to
use you know a twenty five dollar I guess it's like twelve fifty each you
know for these rings that might offend some sensibilities but they really do
work and I have come to depend on them when I'm out Varman ting I just have no
qualms at all every time I slap it back on I know where I'm gonna be hitting and
it's not just the utg rings I've been using these Weaver Grand Slams for a
while I have these on my dedicated varmint rifle my 243 and these are solid
steel they work great and that's one that I tend not to remove the scope from
just because there's no reason to I keep everything all solidly attached but on
occasion I have had to pop it off and I've had no trouble returning to zero
and that's a 25 power scope that I use on that rifle and I lose no precision at
all there's no change I also use a utg quick-release base this is a different
kind you can get the Rings in in this lever release or you can get this this
kind of quick kind of butterfly knob here I use this on my red dot sight and
again this returns to zero every single time everything that I have on my rifle
is zeroed for 200 yards the scope is zeroed for 200 this is 0 for 200 and my
my iron sights are for 200 and it all works great
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