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How to Bore Sight and Zero a Shotgun Red Dot.

April 30, 2025

Bore sighting a red dot on a shotgun is easy since many shotguns have removable barrels or break-open actions that you can look through the … read more

Precision Perfect: Larger Scope Tubes, Larger Ring Sizes 34mm, 35mm, 36mm, and 40mm Rifle Scope Rings.

January 6, 2025

What’s up with all the different rifle scope tube sizes nowadays? According to Justin Smith at Athlon, “It doesn’t seem like that many ye … read more

Scope Ring Height Calculator

August 1, 2023

Scope Ring Calculator can help you determine the correct ring height for the bases and scope you are using for most rifles. … read more

Proper Eye Relief on a Rifle Scope

June 23, 2023

What is Eye Relief? Eye relief is the distance between the eyepiece lens of a rifle scope and the shooter's eye that allows for a ful … read more

How to Zero Your Rifle Scope

December 20, 2022

Now that you have mounted your scope, torqued the base and rings, set it for proper eye relief, leveled the reticle, and  bore-sight … read more

Why a Rifle Loses Zero and How to Keep it Zeroed

November 18, 2022

What Can Cause a Rifle Scope to Fail to Hold a Zero After Zeroing It? The most common problems with holding zero are excessive reco … read more

How to Calculate the Right Scope Ring Height

June 15, 2022

Why is Scope Ring Height Important? Generally, you want to mount the scope as close as you can to the bore without the scope touching the … read more

Torque and Scope Mounts: Proper Torque Specs for Scope Rings.

June 8, 2022

Understanding Torque Torque is, at its heart, a rotational equivalent of linear force. In a nutshell, it describes a twist around an axi … read more

One Piece vs Two Piece Scope Bases: Which is Right for You?

May 19, 2022

Struggling with a decision between a one-piece vs two-piece scope base? Warne Scope Mounts can help. You may shop for a rifle and s … read more

Will a centerfire scope work on a rimfire rifle?

June 3, 2021

Can you use a centerfire scope on a rimfire rifle? Warne Scope Mounts is here to answer your questions about centerfire scopes and whethe … read more

How to mount a scope on an AR-15

April 11, 2021

How to Mount an AR-15 Scope If you’d like a brief introduction or refresher course on how to mount a rifle scope on an AR-15, you’ve come … read more

Weaver Vs. Picatinny Style Bases

August 4, 2020

One of the many benefits to Warne Maxima, Tactical and MSR rings is that they have the ability to mount to any picatinny or weav … read more

Scope Mounting Part 1 – Adjusting Eye Relief on a Rifle Scope

March 18, 2020

Adjusting Eye Relief on a Rifle Scope: Ensure your rifle is unloaded, action open, and safe to handle. Mount the scope in the scope … read more

Is lapping needed?

November 4, 2018

When using some designs of scope mounts, lapping is recommended to get the best performance. Lapping can increase the amount of surf … read more

Why Vertically Split?

April 4, 2017

One of the defining features of Warne Maxima scope rings is that they are vertically split. Due to their unique design,one of the mo … read more