Scope Mounts
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July 24, 2023
The Richard Utting Blog - June Edition
Lately, the weather has turned hot and I’ve been doing a lot to the mile and beyond. Increasingly, people are keen to have a go at the mile and after some training and calibration of their ballistics, more and more people have the rifles to do it nowadays. The half MOA at 1209 is very doable these days and minute at a mile is just a matter of a slightly larger gun. The modern bullets are leaps and bounds better than a decade ago and, with kit like the new Garmin Foretrex 901 for under $600 with full drag modelling through the transonic, it is quite possible for first shot hits to be achieved.
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May 25, 2023
The Richard Utting Blog - May Edition
Is the £1,000 Delta Javelin worth the extra over Meopta Optika6? Is the Arken EP5 better than the Meopta?
Well since the last blog, I’ve been using the sub-£1,000 (GBP) FFP diallers side by side and now have some conclusions.
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May 01, 2023
The Richard Utting Blog - April Edition
Recent visits to the Moor have been about fine-tuning the new Creedmoor and 300WinMag loads after their rather delayed return from the smith for new barrels.
Firstly, I zero, sort the powder charges out and, after barrel run-in has settled down, I would then fine-tune for vertical at long range. A single hole gun at 100y doesn’t mean much at long range.
I have a target just for this, actually. It’s a plate at 808y that is only a handful of inches high, but a couple of feet wide. There’s a mph or two of windage tolerance but for vertical, from the centre to the top and centre to the bottom, it is barely 0.1MIL.
When I’m tuning seating depth or maybe using a barrel tuner to the same end, it’s very easy to see on this target which nodes produce the best vertical dispersion. This, of course, is tied to fps SD results on the
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March 28, 2023
The Richard Utting Blog - March Edition
Today was all about dodging snow showers for long enough to test out the new 300WinMag barrel on my RPR, plus some testing of new ammunition in my 6.5x47, 308 and one of my 223s, plus 17HMR zeroing of the perfectly suited 1.5-9x45 Delta.
I like to run a variety of different-priced scopes on my rifles, so my Ballistics Training Days clients can see them in use and demo them. To that end, I mounted a Delta Javelin FFP 4.5-30 on the WinMag, in the excellent ADM Recon one-piece, quick-release mount. I know from running the Javelin on my lapmag for months a few years ago that it handles this amount of recoil while shooting at a mile and beyond without any complaint or problems at all. I’ll also be using the magnificent new Valdada Mini as well.
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February 01, 2023
The Richard Utting Blog - February Edition
At this time of year I’m getting ready for my training days season which starts around April. There’s a lot of brass prep to do. The more I can get done now the less manic the start of the season is. So lots of annealing, trimming, sizing, neck turning has been the order of the day of late.
And of course any new rifles or rebarrels need their load development done. Currently I have quite a lot up the air – the RPRs in Creed, Winmag and Lapmag are all away for new barrels and I won’t have them back for a week or two yet.
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January 29, 2021One of the most important pieces of kit you can have whether you are just starting out or you're a seasoned Shooter is a good Torque Wrench.
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January 15, 2021
Long gone are the days of shops having to keep hundreds of different Mounts; Tikka, Sako, Ruger etc. Many of these are indeed still available but much simpler now is the option to convert these dedicated mounting systems with a standard Picatinny Rail for which conversions are available for most nowadays, especially on Dovetail receivers where the Picatinny Rail greatly enhances stability and security.
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December 07, 2020
Ade from Optics Warehouse provides a detailed explanation of Spuhr's One-Piece Scope Mounts coding system.
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We have a fair few customers say they are unfamiliar with the terminology and descriptions of Spuhr's One-Piece Mounts, and furthermore, unsure on which Mount is best for their Shooting needs.
So, with this in mind, we have broken down Spuhr's terminology and provided basic explanations on what they mean.
Please note, some models may be available in different heights, MOA, variants, and only in selected combinations.
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The initial letters identify the type/firearm/rail