This article, "Rifleman Know-How: Scope Mounting Made Easy," appeared originally in the August 2006 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page and select ...

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Spend enough time at the rifle range and you’ll notice people having difficulty keeping their shots within a reasonably small circle. Rather, they often have two shots close together, but the next ...

If a scope is the most important element for rifle accuracy, the scope's mount and rings are just as important. No matter how precise your scope is, it is meaningless if your mounts are faulty, ...

When mounting a riflescope, you’re dealing with the most fragile and failure-prone point on your gun—so it pays to do it right. The process isn’t complicated, but it does require an attention to ...

Some rifles make you question why you didn’t stick with iron sights. Mounting a scope should be straightforward—find solid bases, torque the rings, and hit the range. But certain rifles turn that ...