Do you lap your scope rings - Poll

[Dirtlaw]

Do you lap?

[CartridgeCalls]

I use DNZ on all my rifles. Never lapped them.

[kcstott]

I check then lap if needed.

[Dirtlaw]

My bet is that this only is of concern to those uber long distance guys.

[ar15barrels]

I use receivers which have the picatinny rail machined in as one piece with the receiver and use quality rings which I do not need to lap.
The main reason you need to lap is that the scope base is not straight because it does not fit the receiver correctly.
Rather than making the rings crooked to offset the crooked scope rail, I prefer to make the scope rail straight so that lapping is not required.

[Subotai]

I'm not that good a shot.

[smoothy8500]

I prefer to make the scope rail straight so that lapping is not required.

Is that by "bedding" a quality rail to the receiver top?

[Strafer]

IMO, when not using one piece rings (like DNZ), I definitely check and then lap if needed. The 1" factory rings that came w my Ruger Single Six were pretty far out of alignment. The scope wouldn't sit properly and if I would have tightened the rings down without lapping I would have definitely damaged the scope. I use a 1" and 30mm lapping set I found on Amazon made by Monstrum. It works great.

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[ar15barrels]

Is that by "bedding" a quality rail to the receiver top?

Yes.
Having the rail be straight allows you to move the rings to different spots on the rail without having to re-lap them if you had previously lapped them to crooked to account for the crooked rail.

Lapping the rings straight to each other but also crooked to the rail makes a real mess of the rings if you ever want to re-use the rings on a different rail or with a different scope which requires different spacing on a rail.

[kcstott]

My bet is that this only is of concern to those uber long distance guys.

More like the guys that cheep out on bases, rings, and actions.
I don't lap Talley, Leupold Mk4 Steel, Warne, Badger ordinance or Geissele.
As long as they are mounted on a integral rail or a Badger, ULR, Borden or Warne base.

Keep in ming i'm not talking anything about Lego based rifles (AR and the like) This is custom action bolt guns. Stiller, Kelby, Borden, Bat, or Defiance.

Even those I check first then decide. but 99% of the time they are good to go as is. That said I have an will lap a base to the action not to mention lapping the rings and doweling the base to the action. When you can not afford something to move you do everything you can to prevent it.

Granted I have a Marlin 336 with a leupold 1.5-4 pig plex mounted with a basic leupold base and rings, I have a 98 Mauser with the same scope and base set up and I have a Glenfield 22LR that has some $99 Bushnell on it in Weaver rings, I have a 1891 Argentine Mauser with a cheep chit 4-16x Centerpoint in my own manufacture custom bases with Talley fixed rings. That scope will be replaced soon but I have yet to decide with what. I don't shoot that rifle much, I think Ive put maybe 50 rounds in it since I rebuilt it 15 years ago. So I have high end rifles that i put a considerable amount of effort and money into and I have klunk that I'm just not terribly concerned about. The key is not putting the same large amount of money and time into the klunk guns.

[pacrat]

My bet is that this only is of concern to those uber long distance guys.

How much are you willing to lose?

[wa1911]

I never lap if the manufacture tell me not to.
with modern scope mount you don't have to.
buy a good one like Vortex..etc and you don't have to
I mount it to my Ruger precision rifle 3 years ago and it still death on.