Need the height please of a Leupold dovetail "high" ring and a Leupold 2 piece base..

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VaniB

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Need the height please of a Leupold dovetail "high" ring and a Leupold 2 piece base..

I'd appreciate it if somebody could kindly measure how high the base is on either the front or the back base of the Leupold 2 piece base. (ie; I need to know the thickness.... which inside of the sealed plastic package at the store looks to be about 3/8" of an inch thick?)

I was told by a Midway rep that the Leupold "high" rings (not the "super high" rings) measure .400" from the bed of the ring, down to the bottom edge where it locks onto the Leupold base. Could you verify that for me?

Or, if you can give me the combined height of the two pieces together, that'l work too.

Thanks.
 
The Midway guy was right. It's around .400 on the highs. Mediums around
.270.

Front base is .205 thick.

Rear base is .315 thick at the windage screw end.
.250 at the other end.

Al.
 
Thanks a bunch Alf.

I had already checked the Leupold sight and other optics retailers, but could not find base measurements. With what I already suspected, and with your numbers, I now know that the front bell on my Elite 4500 30mm scope will easilly clear the barrel, and allow enough room for the scope covers too. I wanted to be sure before I ordered my stuff online. Thanks.

PBike,
I don't know why Leupold bothers to provide stats with no explanation. That list of numbers should seem incoherent and a mystery to most folks visiting that link. I can tell you that the .9" they list for the high rings and the front or back base is certainly NOT any measurement that I can make heads or tales of. (the actual height of the base to the bed of the ring should barely be 3/4") Perhaps it's a measurement of the ring mounted on their one piece base? If so....then they ought to be more clear about it.
Thanks for trying to help.
 
Vani

Your ring, the 1 inch High by Leupold Measures .900.... That is to the center of the scope a 1 inch scope. So that is the .500 plus the .400 measurement that someone else provided for you which gets you the .900 that is listed. I believe this is a better measurement anyway... If you are looking for the room needed to clear a barrel you aren't measureing from the tube anyway you are measureing from the bottom of the objective bell. Since the bell is centered on the tube, and the bell measurement of the scope you put on their mount is out of their control, their measurement gives you a centerline (more consistant) measurement.

Try to make heads and tales of that.

Paul
 
PBike,

Yea, which goes to prove that I was right when I said that Leupold was being less then clear and thus causing everyone to come up with some good tales in trying to make "heads or tails" of it. :D

Just kiddin.....What you explained is understood.

For all practical purposes it was much easier to know that the Leupold base is about a 1/4"- 5/16" thick, and the ring another 3/8" (.40" aprox) I then simply put a couple of pieces of 5/8"- 3/4" wood scrap pieces on top of the rifle receiver front and back, and then rested my scope on top of them to check the clearence. I'm going to have 3/16" to 1/4" clearance. (Give or take an 1/8", that'll still allow plenty of leeway to fit my scope covers on too.)

Not much "tube center, to bell rim, to receiver top" math figuring involved in that process.


Thanks for your help.
 
Vani,

Another thing you or I haven't mentioned is where the Objective Bell would meet the Barrel in a tight scenario. What matters there also is your Barrel diameter at that point, measured from centerline of barrel which is centerline of action, which is larger than the barrels diameter. Centerline measuremeant are the most consistant, but the hardest to guess.

By the way, 3/4" plywood aint 3/4", neither is 5/16".

Paul
 
pbike said:
Vani,

Another thing you or I haven't mentioned is where the Objective Bell would meet the Barrel in a tight scenario.



.......By the way, 3/4" plywood aint 3/4", neither is 5/16".

Paul
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Yes, the heavier/thicker custom barrel was exactly the concern I had in mind.

Oh heavens.....Use plywood as a gage? Like most anal guys on this sight, I would never rely on Home Depot 3/4" plyboard as a measuring tool. I used a Mitutoyo caliper and a stainless ruler for final analysis of my make-shift balsa wood mounts .

"Balsa wood" you may wonder??....... Yes, I might spend perhaps 1-2 years at a time building a radio control airplane out of all kinds of balsa sheets and planks that I have on hand. What else might anal guys ever want to be doing with their spare time when they are not measuring bullet run-out on their sinclair concentricty gage? :D :D
 
FBecigneul said:
Stay away from plywood or check your numbers above
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Please disregard what I stated on the 2nd and 3rd line of my last post. I've had a change of heart and now firmly believe that 3/4" sheet plyboard is a precision gage, but Tootsie rolls make an even better measuring device.

I think this thread has run its course. Thanks to all who have provided good input for me.
 
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