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Bedding your scope ring bases with BASEBED®

The BASEBED® Alignment Bar allows gunsmiths and novices alike to quickly and accurately align both front and rear "Weaver-style" and Mil-STD 1913 (Picatinny) scope ring bases to one another and then properly mount them to your rifle.

Using the BASEBED® Alignment Bar is a very simple, yet unique concept upon properly mounting your scope rings and bases on your rifle or handgun. With the use of epoxy and the BASEBED® Alignment Bar, you can now achieve perfect alignment between your scope rings. The common process of "Lapping" your scope rings is a thing of the past.

Complete BASEBED® Kit With Detailed Scope Ring Base Bedding Instructions

Instruction - .PDF Format

The BASEBED® Alignment Bar Kit comes complete with instructions on how to properly align your scope ring bases on your rifle or handgun.  In the kit includes:

1 Basebed® Alignment Bar w/ clamps

1  Package of 5-minute Epoxy

1 Tube of epoxy dye 

1 Container of release agent

1 Mixing cup

1 Stirring stick

1 Detailed set of Instructions

An Example of Typical Misalignment Problems

INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD OF TELESCOPIC SIGHT MOUNTING

The inherit problems of proper scope ring alignment is as old as the first rifle scope. Anyone who has attempted to mount their own scope, using various manufactures ring and bases have all encountered the same thing, whether or not they identified the problem is another topic. The scope rings, which hold the scope onto your rifle or handgun, are not perfectly aligned together. The misalignment of your scope rings is why we are here, taking you through the process to explain why your scope rings are misaligned and how to prevent it from happening ever again.

It has become an acceptable procedure in past years to do something called "Lapping" your rings. The individuals who have become aware of the fact that their rings are not aligned correctly are implementing the only way of correction that has become apparent to them. Today, however you are about to become aware of not only a different and unique way, but the only correct and proper way to aligning your rings.

First and foremost, the customer, being yourself, must understand a couple things about the manufacturing of firearms, scopes, rings and scope bases. Virtually, every firearm that is manufactured in the world, past and present has the same inherited problems. They are all unique. Unique in the fact that no two are the same, and the areas that mates with your scope ring bases are the areas that is of concern today. The receivers on rifles and handguns are machined and then polished, typically by hand. By hand polishing along with typical machining tolerances, you have irregular radiuses, surfaces and dimensional heights to which you must align and eventually mount your scope ring bases onto. Because of these differences, is what causes your scope rings to be misaligned, which is why the attempted correction has been to "Lapp" your rings.
All components, such as your firearm receiver, scope rings and bases all have dimensional "manufacturing" tolerances in them. However, you will typically find that most quality oriented manufactures in the scope, scope ring and base market provide an accurate product, since they are typically machined on the critical surfaces, compared to a firearm receiver which as been polished by hand.

If the world were perfect, your firearm receiver would be as well.   However, we know this not to be true,  so we accept the problem and find means to correct it.   The Basebed™ Alignment Bar aligns your bases, even if they themselves may not be perfect. The alignment bar aligns your bases together, in three (3) different planes, and then allows you to mount the bases in their aligned state of position perfectly to your firearm receiver. In using the Basebed™ Alignment Bar, you will have eliminated the largest aspect of misalignment in the mounting of your scope. Nothing can take the place of precision and accurate rings and bases, so we highly suggest that when decide to purchase your next set of rings and bases consider the quality and accuracy of both in regards to how they mount on your firearm.