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DLO Live! Budget Scope Mounts: Daniel Defense and Sig Alpha2

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Now that I made it home for a couple of days, I fished two mounts out of the mail that I plan to test. Here are first impressions.

The mounts discussed were:
Sig Alpha2:
Daniel Defense:

The scopes shown were:
Leupold Mark4HD 2.5-10×42 FFP with illuminated TMR
Primary Arms PLxC 1-8×24 SFP with Nova reticle. This scope is not up for sale yet, but soon. It is essentially a SFP version of this one:

For the time being, if I were to pick a simple robust one piece mount in the $200 and under range, it would still be Badger Unimount. Allegedly, it has been discontinued, but there is still some stock

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  1. The mounts discussed were:

    Sig Alpha2: https://alnk.to/7BeynX3

    Daniel Defense: https://alnk.to/44VoLF4

    The scopes shown were:

    Leupold Mark4HD 2.5-10×42 FFP with illuminated TMR https://alnk.to/ge5GrY6

    Primary Arms PLxC 1-8×24 SFP with Nova reticle. This scope is not up for sale yet, but soon. It is essentially a SFP version of this one: https://alnk.to/a43a7qG

    For the time being, if I were to pick a simple robust one piece mount in the $200 and under range, it would still be Badger Unimount. Allegedly, it has been discontinued, but there is still some stock https://alnk.to/dAmjJLY

  2. I don't like stress risers but the SIG mount probably won't fracture before the top caps tear and either way your scope will probably break before the mount.

    The stress riser I have seen fail is in the top cap at the seat for the cap screw. If the seat is thin, torquing the ring can almost pull the seat out of the cap.

    If the cap screw seat is thick, I don't see much issue with the rest of the cap being thin. It will just conform to the scope tube.

    I got lucky and bought a few Leupold MkIV IMS mounts when they were discontinued and on clearance. They are two piece but it's a clamp piece and a double ring piece that bolts in to the clamp. Full price was near $300 I think but I got them for about $70. The machining is what i would expect on a $300 mount but they were not QD or one piece so I think they just didn't sell.

    I do like QD and I have a few. I have to say Bobro QD mounts are built like a tank but I prefer the KDG Sidelok which is built almost as well but has a nicer QD mechanism.

  5. The takeaway for me is that there are deficiencies in the design of some of the budget scope mounts and the higher priced scope mounts (>$300) appear to be better designed. The ones mention were:
    Area 419 Tactical One-Piece Scope Mount
    Reptilia AUS™ MOUNT
    Badgerordnance Condition One Max Mount

    Which is disconcerting because I though that I had heard it mentioned on a previous livestream that if you are paying more than 200 dollars for a mount it's more hype than performance. So does a quality budget scope mount exist? If so which one is it?

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