Thread: Sako Canted Rails Near Mfg

Originally Posted by Bagheera

Thanks for showing us these, shift, vrry nice and well finished the near gear.

A Rail would give better fore aft flexibility in mounting and allow a one piece ringmount but is higher and will need stock mods. If all you need is 10 moa slope then 0.5mm @ 100mm is about 18moa so milling the right part of the optilok base might be more elegant.
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Yeah....I bought trouble trying to do this on Sako's with European scopes with shortish 30mm tubes. I ran out of internal elevation adjustment on my Diavari's. I just want to be able to get the full 6.5 mil-rad elevation travel available. I toyed with milling the front base, but went in this direction. Still may go back to Optilock rings and bases, but that combo is heavier than the Nightforce Ultralight rings I have coming......they're 1" height, I might be able to get away with xtra-lo which are .885", depending on scope clearance.

Have a look at my rifles on the gun porn thread, you'll see the rails and scopes installed.

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