Next, put your scope in place and lightly tighten the top rings so that you can still move the scope forward/backwards and side to side. You need to find where the scope needs to be for your proper eye relief. Once you find out where the scope needs to be, put a level on it and tighten the screws evenly in a crisscross pattern (like lug nuts on your vehicle’s wheels). Remove one screw at a time and add a drop of blue loctite and repeat till you have all screws done.
As you can see in that last pic, I added a bubble level to the scope to help at longer ranges.
The Vortex (high) rings were way too high for this setup. So, I swapped them out for some UTG ( I know cheap rings but, they are surprisingly really well made) low rings I had in the parts bin. Here is a before and after of the gap between the bell and barrel.
That’s it, done. Scope is mounted and ready to be zero’d.
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