Re: First USO
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: gszeto99</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: fdkay</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: KnabstrupperUSA</div><div class="ubbcode-body">there is no base pictured... </div></div>
Really?
Isn't the base the interface between the rifle and rings? If so, there is certainly a base there, it is just a throw lever mount, but it does in fact act as the interface, affixing the rings to the weapon. </div></div>
The Original Poster has a LaRue Mount. Usually if you have rings and bases that are made as one unit then it is called a <span style="font-weight: bold">mount</span>. The guy calling it a base either mistakenly thought that there were rings mounted on to a base and was commenting on the throw lever part or he just misnamed the mount as a base. Hope that clears everything up.
Gene </div></div>
Semantics.
Yes, the proper terminology is MOUNT.
I understand that. But the interface between the rings and the weapon can still be called a base, whether they are permanently affixed to each other or not, after all, it is the "base of the mount" as it were.
Someone was just being anal and calling someone else out for use of a term that is technically corret.
base1    /beɪs/ Show Spelled [beys] Show IPA noun, adjective, verb, based, bas·ing.
–noun
1. the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.