Scope Mounts

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.

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.

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.

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