Scope Mounts for Kimber Mountain Ascent

[ChickenSalad210]

Best lightweight scope mount for Kimber 84L? Looking to mount my 30mm tube scope

 

[IdahoBeav]

Murphy Precision titanium rail & NF Ultralite rings

 

[thinhorn_AK]

The talleys are lighterbut their durability is questionable. I ended up taking a small weight penalty for piece of mind and used warne bases and warne mountain tech 1” rings to mount my 3-9 accupoint.

It’s a much better setup than the talley/leupold combo it had before.

 

[bradmacmt]

I've had at least 30 pairs of Talley's, including over 15 on various Kimber's. If you lightly lap them and use a torque wrench you'll not have a problem.

 

[Wrongside]

We put one piece 30mm Leupold Backcountry’s on my son’s 308 84M. They’re 7075 alloy and seem to be better machined than Talley LWs. The design aesthetics could be better, IE; square edges overhanging the loading port. But it’s minor, as long as they’re solid. Time will tell.

Personally, I won't use Talley LWs any more.

 

[RepeatPete]

We put one piece 30mm Leupold Backcountry’s on my son’s 308 84M. They’re 7075 alloy and seem to be better machined than Talley LWs. The design esthetics could be better, IE; square edges overhanging the loading port. But it’s minor, as long as they’re solid. Time will tell.

Personally, I won't use Talley LWs any more.

Can you get a picture? I’ve read that the backcountry’s overhang the Kimber action in quite a few reviews, all highly negative reviews. I fine with aesthetics being off, but wasn’t sure how much they overhang.

 

[Wrongside]

Can you get a picture? I’ve read that the backcountry’s overhang the Kimber action in quite a few reviews, all highly negative reviews. I fine with aesthetics being off, but wasn’t sure how much they overhang.

Yessir. My son is up north working right now. But I’ll get you a picture when he gets back.

I was surprised they hadn’t put more thought into the aesthetics for their Kimber rings. They aren’t cheap rings, for cheap rifles.

 

[Jason Snyder]

Can you get a picture? I’ve read that the backcountry’s overhang the Kimber action in quite a few reviews, all highly negative reviews. I fine with aesthetics being off, but wasn’t sure how much they overhang.

I’m not overly happy with them. Between the mount and the turret I’m not getting reliable ejection.

 

[Steelruger22]

I run Talleys on all my Kimbers and have never had a problem with any of them.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Can you get a picture? I’ve read that the backcountry’s overhang the Kimber action in quite a few reviews, all highly negative reviews. I fine with aesthetics being off, but wasn’t sure how much they overhang.

The lwupolds overhung the action on a m70 I put them on, I returned them.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

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I’m not overly happy with them. Between the mount and the turret I’m not getting reliable ejection.

Yeah F that.

 

[Jason Snyder]

Yeah F that.

I shot it again on Thursday and had more issues with ejection. The brass is hitting the rear mount. I confirmed with Leupold they are supposed to be like this.

Warne two piece bases are on the way.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I shot it again on Thursday and had more issues with ejection. The brass is hitting the rear mount. I confirmed with Leupold they are supposed to be like this.

Warne two piece bases are on the way.

The warne 2 piece with a solid set of rings is the way to go.

 

[Jason Snyder]

Way better.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

This is how mine is set up, it’s a Montana 308, the scope is a trijicon accupoint 3-9. Mounting hardware is the warne maxima bases and mountain tech rings.

 

[TREE ‘EM]

Talley is the best way to go. I’ve got them on 5 rifles with about 12,000 rounds collectively and ZERO FAILURES.

 

[Jason Snyder]

This is how mine is set up, it’s a Montana 308, the scope is a trijicon accupoint 3-9. Mounting hardware is the warne maxima bases and mountain tech rings.

Happy to say since switching to this mount system I ran 30 rounds through without a single ejection issue.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Happy to say since switching to this mount system I ran 30 rounds through without a single ejection issue.

glad to hear it, there is unfortunately one downside to this setup and that is that the bases are steel and rust.

 

[kad11]

I run Talleys on all my Kimbers and have never had a problem with any of them.

Same...

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Same...

I've never broken a set either but I Know people who have and I've seen enough pics to not risk it.