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Warne Scope Mounts New Red Dot Offset Mount
Posted by Junior Shooters
By Travis Gibson
If you have ever mounted a scope on a rifle, you know there is a huge difference between a set of cheapo scope rings and a quality mount set up. Warne Scope Mounts has some of the best engineered, most heavy duty mounts I have ever seen.
(Shown mounted on a S&W M&P15 tactical with a Leupold
scope, Trijicon red dot & MGM Switchview)
Warne puts a lot of thought into their products and it really shows! Instead of the usual two or four screw mounts, on their tactical models, these guys put in EIGHT…PER RING! Like I said, they are really heavy duty. The mounts are Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machined from sintered steel, which provides you with a heavy duty, durable product that you will be able to give to your kids.
Warne followed that same train of thought with their new red dot offset mounting system. This system allows you to mount a medium to long range scope on your gun along with a removable section of a picatinny rail on either side to mount a close range reflex site system such as a JP, Trijicon, or Burris Fast Fire. This enables you to slightly roll the gun to the left (for right handed shooters) and look through the reflex site to engage closer targets.
This isn’t a new idea. Probably five or six years ago competition shooters started mounting these all over their guns which significantly increased the speed with which they were able to engage close targets. I have tried quite a few of these systems and the Warne mounting system is by far the fastest I have ever used. Every time you roll the gun over, the dot is always right on target. I put this on three different AR’s with three different types of stocks, and they all worked like a charm.
My son Wyatt, 11, used it recently in his first three gun match and he said, "I thought this mount was really cool because it had the red dot on it and you could switch to shooting close targets really easy. It was not hard to get used to at all; it was really easy to adjust to."
RAMP, the Rapid Acquisition Multisight Platform, is the name for the new mount from Warne. The scope mount that Junior Shooters received for testing came with a Trijicon Ruggedized Miniature Reflex (RMR) red dot scope which has a minimal footprint and a red dot system that automatically adjusts the brightness for the lighting conditions. It also came with a Leupold Mid Range Tactical (MR/T) 1.5 X 5 scope with yardage markings. This combination of a fantastic new scope mount with these two sights, each of which are outstanding on their own, combined with the MGM Switchview I installed for fast magnification adjustment would be hard to beat. What a combo!
One of the things we did when testing the RAMP mount from Warne is to shoot five rounds using the Leupold scope then rolled the gun to the left and fired five rounds through the Trijicon RMR red dot. It took only 0.73 seconds to transition from the regular scope to the red dot – that is fast! The time was measured from the five shot using the Leupold scope to the first shot using the Trijicon red dot.
These scope mounts are still in the testing phase, but should be out in January 2010 in both 1-inch and 30-mm rings. The Manufactured Recommended Retail Price (MSRP) is probably going to be about $219. Whether you need a mount for your long range bolt gun, your 10/22, or your competition AR, Warne Scope Mounts are the guys to call. They have a great product at a reasonable price. 
If that isn’t enough reason for you, next time you go to a shooting competition, look through the sponsor list, you can almost bet you’ll find Warne as a sponsor. I can’t remember the last major match I went to these guys didn’t support. Remember to take care of the companies that support the shooting sports which directly relates to the support of the 2nd amendment!
Oh, the Switchview from MGM is a lever that enables you to easily and quickly change the magnification of your scope. 
These are great for 3-gun rifles, and they are a great tool for long range rifles as well. Being able to look for a target, and then zoom in on it, in less than two seconds, without taking your head off the gun is a huge advantage. These are currently available for Leupold CQT, Leupold Mark IV w/Illuminated reticule, Burris, Millet, for the VXIII, and Night Force by the end September. They retail for $59.95 and are available in an assortment of colors.
Contact Information:
Warne Scope Mounts: www.warnescopemounts.com
MGM Targets: www.mgmtargets.com
Leupold: www.leupold.com
Trijicon: www.tirjicon.com
Copyright and Published By: Junior Shooters & Junior Sports Magazines Inc. September 2009
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holy cow that switch view would be perfect for me!