Steiner military scope, mount and rings for 7mm mag Sendero Special

[Spike0013]

Hey all,

I am new here and super interested in long range shooting, hunting, sniping, training, reloading, proper cleaning all of it! I want to read, learn, and work up to shooting 1000m+. I recently purchased a Rem 700 Sendero Special 7mm Mag. No fancy upgrades yet, just a bipod so far. Bought a shit scope (vector tac ops 5-25x56mm) from a gun show, took 8 shots and took it off the rifle and sold it on ebay. It was accurate but the kick blurred the focus every shot. Today I FINALLY got the Leupold std mounts off that the 2nd owner prior to me (Original owner I believe) bathed the bolts in red lock tight....asshole. With much prayer, some acetone and a soldering gun I was to remove them without putting too much heat on the barrel! So now I am planning on ordering a Steiner Military 3-12x56 for this rifle. Can I get some suggestions/recommendations on what mount and rings would compliment this setup? I'm not loaded with cash, but I do not want to put any more junk on this gun!

 

[Bangarang]

I can only comment on Seekins and Nighforce brand rings, and I can recommend both as good quality for your purposes.

Just built a Rem 700 rig myself in 7mm Rem Mag with Seekins 4x6 screw rings and a Seekins picatinny one-piece base (the lowest ring/mount-height setup I could find) and a Steiner Military 4-16x50 scope.

The Seekins base isn't steel, however, if you are wanting a steel one to make the action more rigid. What I did like though was the integral recoil lug that can be stoned or machined & epoxy bedded to fit your receiver perfectly to handle the recoil of a heavy scope (which Steiners are!)

Good luck with your build. B

Rings link: Scope Ring

Mount link: Scope Ring

 

[bohem]

I have had excellent luck with EGW's rails and I firmly believe in the American Rifle M10 rings.

Nice thing is you'll never need another set of rings, buy once, cry once there.

The EGW rails have been really good to me, I have one on a 12ga slug gun which rattles my teeth, the scope is completely without issue (Steiner 3-12x50) and I use the M10 rings on an EGW scope base. No issues and the shotgun prints the 300gr SST Hornady slugs into a touch under 1.5MOA @ 100yd.

I have them on all of my precision rifles as well, the setup is definitely sound.

The Seekins base isn't steel, however, if you are wanting a steel one to make the action more rigid.

This is misinformation. I know that R. Vaughn comments about stiffening up a Rem 721 action by installing a 1 piece base, but here's where the rub lies:

Vaughn is right with how he did it. What he did though was to install the base by screwing it down and then silver-soldering it in place.

Since you can't silver solder AL to a steel receiver it's not possible to do that with an AL base, however, if you just put a steel base on the receiver and don't solder or weld (weld is a bad idea btw) it in place, you've done nothing to stiffen the receiver. Screws have been shown in high frequency tests to be only capable of transfering tension loads, they do absolutely nothing for shear load. The scope rail stays "in place" with the friction force in the shear direction along the receiver from the tension force imparted by the screws.

The clearances in the screw area itself makes it such that there's no shear load transferred there in teh manner you're concerned with.

So, to the OP, unless you're going to modify the receiver in a permanent fashion by soldering on a steel base then there's no benefit to the steel rail over the aluminum one.

 

[varmint slayer]

I have been using the Seekins 4-6 screw 34mm rings with an EGW steel base with my 5-25 Steiner. High rings leave just enough clearance for scope caps with that setup.

 

[kmose73]

I've had good luck with TPS.