What are the best light weight rings and bases out there for a light weight rifle build up?
These would go onto a model 70.

Look here:

http://www.millettsights.com/index.php/catalog_2007/turn_in

have you looked at the Talley light weights? Lightest on the market.

Talley alloy

Terry

Thank you ! I hadn't looked at either Talley or Millett.

advertised weights of rings and bases are about are about as accurate as advertising claims by gun manufacturers. Start weighing them on a postal scale and the truth becomes obvious. Gentry rings and bases are as light as anything out there evr made, and you can easily work another 1/2 ounce off of them with no problem. And 1/2 an ounce is significant when building fly-weight rifles.

and I don't like the Talleys because they are a one piece ring and base, and recivers, and their tapped holes, of all make are out of whack and the lightweigth Talleys have absolutely no play in them to adjust for the runout

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Originally posted by Marc_Stokeld:
and I don't like the Talleys because they are a one piece ring and base, and recivers, and their tapped holes, of all make are out of whack and the lightweigth Talleys have absolutely no play in them to adjust for the runout

This is true with the Gentry rings also. That has to be the flemsiest mounting system on earth. The rings are just metal bands that are strechted around the scope tube and held into the bases with small pointed set screws that snug up to divets in the scope bands (rings). Not for me.

Terry

I have a lightweight rifle based on a 1912 Steyr Mauser action that weighs exactly five pounds.Scope is a Leupold Compact 4X. The rings I used were the plain old Weaver detachables.
You could even lighten them even further by drilling series of holes on the rings. I'll grant you they're not as pretty as some of the more expensive rigs, but they are lightweight, and they do work.
Paul B.