Thread: Lesson Learnt - Cheap Rings

Originally Posted by Hurricane

BTW - bloke in my local shop mounted a scope for me and was clearly clueless. He managed to strip the thread on one of the screws. Got him to give me a new set and did it myself. Just because someone works in a gun shop doesn’t mean they are competent.

If it was optiloks it is a known problem with them having soft screws. Quality Allen Keys, using the correct size and torque settings is obviously important but even more so here.
I think they might of changed to the Torx Head at some stage IIRC.