Avoiding Scope Ring Marks

[antelopedundee]

I specifically mentioned in this post 2x that a gun smith did this, not me. For what i paid him, and for what I paid for the scope rings i expected quality ringd that were properly lapped. Obviously he did not. Now a days I have my own lapping kit and level kit and have done a couple dozen scopes without any issues.

Got that, but I was mentioning an alternative to lapping for removing any burrs and not doing a full bore lapping job. One thing about lapping is how do you really know when you've done enough? It's not like you can paint some sort of dye on the scope tube and see where the high spots are. Maybe lap until you have 100% bare metal visible on the bottom ring half which makes steel rings more prone to rusting. Some enterprising individual should supply 30, 34 and 35mm dowel rods.