Thread: How to remove stripped scope ring screw?

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

one of these days someone will make Stainless steel screws with square head hole.....and this will overnight become a NON issue forever more.

You actually want the screws to be of softer metal than the rings, otherwise when things go wrong (and they will!) you will strip the thread out of the rings, wrecking the rings instead of wrecking a cheap easily replaceable screw.