Thread: Advice on mounting swaro z5 to tikka

Originally Posted by LCtikka

A bit late, but perhaps this experience is helpful for others.
I bought Optilock ring-mounts for a T3, after looking at and trying the clamping arrangement I sold them.
From what is see the clamp area has only 2 pegs adjacent that make contact with the action dovetail base. These pegs are small and sit on the very edge of the action. The pegs look cosmetic and undersized when compared to the other side.
Also the supplied T3 alu ring-mounts are not 1 inch, the hole diameter is 26mm, with the scope tube sitting in the base piece it can easy move about, it is not cradled solid with full contact, this results in line contact only at the tube which leads to a crush point as clamped and a good chance of movement, which happened.
I finally bought Sportsmatch ring-mounts as they are well designed and solid.

Yeah nah.

I'll agree with you that Sportsmatch rings are good, but it seems like you didn't understand how the Optiloc ring/dovetail connection works on the T3 rifle.
The clamp side dovetail remnants don't do any clamping -the clanp screw is what contacts the action dovetail and secures the ring to the action.
The plastic insert is meant to deform around the scope - that is the point of the design, and why it works so well. The Burris insert rings work the same way - and equally well.