Gents,
Getting down to the flesh type of stuff on my soon to be 500A2 and am concerned about the 115ftlbs recoil vs my scope rings and am considering a piccatiny style rail with plenty of room for up to 3 rings to hold my 2-7 Leupold.
I know Talley or Warne rings are preffered for the quick-detachable feature,but how often is this really needed? And If I use 3 Millett Angle-Locs I believe a few turns of a common hex wrench are enough to zip a scope right off anyway. I use 2 Angle-Locs on my 416 Rem Mag and it has not slipped even a hair after over 150 rounds and that isn't a round for the slackers either.....So
where do I sit? What is "the" consensus here? TIA 45nut

I have used two rings on mine and my Burris 1x has never moved. I have regular scope bases, I do not know what kind they are, they came on the rifle.

The Millet angle locks are pretty flimsey for a 500 A2 IMHO. Whether 2 or three will hold is anybodies guess. Make darn sure you lap all of them in place whatever you deceide to do. The Warne Premier QD,s plain work; their cheap and it beats diagnosing and repairing broken mounts. Most people also like QD's because they also have open sights. -Rob

I would agree with RGB on the Millet rings. I quit using them long ago, after breaking screws one time too many. And their design just does not compare well with many other rings. They are inferior castings, not machined, little better than "pot metal." Even the screws are cast, and when they break, the metal looks like it is crumbly powder.

Standard, cheap Weaver rings are a bunch better than Millet.

The new Leupold QRW that has the squared up recoil stop on the underside of the ring is a good ring now, not the older ones with the round bolt on the bottom of the ring that sits in the square cross slot.

If you can use 3 rings do so. I have used 4 rings with a Leupold 1.5X-5X and a 4X-16X Sightron mildot on a Picatinny rail. Never Millet, however.

I have also used just two Badger rings for a 34 mm tube diameter 4X-16X S&B PM mildot scope. These are built like a bank vault.

If your rifle is light,
your scope heavy,
your bullets 750 grainers,
your velocities max,
then by all means use all the rings you can fit.

The 500 A2 solution is to use 2 Talley rings.