Near rails and rings? Are they still "the best"?

[pangris]

So I'm looking at a nice scope (in my opinion) for my 700 in 308. I'm going from direct mount 30's to a 34mm scope so I'm starting from a bare receiver.

I haven't ruled out the possibility of swapping it around between my 18" 308 and 20" Grendel.

I used the search function to find Near in the first place. I don't see much about them lately.

I'm willing to spend some $ on precision, repeatability, and reliability.

Thoughts as to rail/ring combos these days for a short action 700?

Best riser for the AR so that I could use it on both if I went that way?

Thanks!

 

[carbonbased]

Is this for hunting? Or comps?

IMHO Near’s pic rails are the bomb. However, he is old school and calling him is the way. Ships super fast too.

For rings I am an ARC man as I like their one-bolt method (one for scope, one for rail), but if I was looking for an ultralight setup, Near’s one-piece mount looks pretty cool.

 

[MO Fugga]

I love mine, will buy another AlphaMount with built in cant. Just call and tell him what you want, he can make it.

 

[BuildingConceptsllc]

Any of the top tier ones are great. Just get the height and features you like. ARC, MDT Elite, Seekins, ZCO mount (what I use), Hawkins, .

If you must get one that will go back and forth from AR to bolt gun (I would not do that), then you'd want a mount, but wouldn't be able to get an offset mount which I prefer for AR but a mount would do what you want and all of those brands are very good ones.

 

[pangris]

I've talked myself out of back and forth but debating as to whether to put the USO on the Grendel or 308.

I think I'm going to embark on "Operation: Wear out three barrels and scopes" and am going to run a SWFA 20X fixed on my White Oak 223 service upper, and the VX-6 and USO FDN 17X on a 20" Grendel and 18" Krieger 308 with which on which as a TBD.

But, I have a 600 yard range and documenting the round count, repeatability, how the scopes track etc etc etc could be interesting. Scopes from $300 - $3000 and 3 rifles that should all be sub MOA and easy 600 yard guns.

I might have clue one once I've worn out a 223, Grendel and 308.

Will be used for hunting as well as target/journal use... I think my competition days are behind me.