scope ring question

[Jarred]

I don't know which ring height i should get for my new gun. I'm putting a vortex viper 6.5-20x50 with a 30mm tube on the gun. The scope will be on a one piece picatinny mount and I'm wondering if i should get medium height or high. what would y'all do?

[TxNurse]

It is hard to have a hard rule. I just get the lowest rings I can without the scope touching in the front or getting in the way of the bolt (if bolt action). Maybe start with high and work down.

[K. Lane]

You MAY be able to get away with low rings and do that if you can. But with 50mm, you may have to go to mediums.

Lower the better

[Jarred]

Thanks guys. I'm going to go with the medium size.

[Solocam00]

med will give you plenty of room, depending on what brand of base you go with will determine how close to barrel you are. I just installed the Viper PST 6-24x50 on my VSSF 22-250 with Vortex tactical med rings and Extreme hardcore gear 20 MOA base, could have gone with low rings.

[bodie]

I run the same scope with seekins medium rings