Christensen Ridgeline & Nightforce SHV 5-20x56 Bases and Rings

[bsween8]

I recently purchased a Christensen Arms Ridgeline in 300 win mag and am planning on putting a Nightforce SHV 5-20x56 on it.

Any recommendations on bases/mounts and rings from experience? Would a 20 MOA base be a good decision?

This is exclusively a hunting rifle that I want to be good out to 500-600 yards, but would like the ability to potentially push that distance in the future.

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

 

[Doc Holliday]

This may be irrelevant to you, but I recently got a Mesa in 7mm. I have a 20 MOA rail and Medium height Seekins rings, and mounted a 30mm scope on it that had decent sized windage/elevation knobs, but nothing crazy. They are either the same size as a NF or smaller. I moved the scope forwards and backwards and no matter what I did, it would still hit the windage knob and fall back in the chamber....I'm just guessing all the Christensen's have a similar ejection angle. I switched to a Meopta 2.5-15x44 with much lower profile knobs and now there are no ejection issues. (I think this is one reason why Vortex's new LHT Razor has a low profile windage knob). Perhaps high or extra high rings would fix this, but I did not try that.

As far as the 20 MOA rail, I thought I might need a cheek riser, but with the current setup I don't....no issue at all getting a good cheek weld.

 

[archp625]

I'm a huge fan of the Hawkins Hybrid rings with bases. They have 25 MOA built in. They are lightweight and solid. You will want to get the talls for that scope.

 

[dgarrett]

Talley's with 20 moa machined into them... You might also find a pad or something else to help raise your stock comb... to get a good cheek weld on the ridgeline when using a 56mm scope... The ridgelines have a lower comb