Also take a look at weaver rings... Love my weaver quad-lok's on my 308... They are pretty inexpensive and actually really nice rings. You can spend hundreds of dollars on rings alone, depending on your application. Most all of my rifles have some type of Weaver rings on them, and the one rifle that does is my competition 308 which is an AR platform, and it has Leupold Mk4 integral mounts on it because they came with the Mk4 scope I had put on the rifle... While leupold makes great rings, the thing I have never really liked from Leupold is their dovetail lock system. Too many stresses involved for me.
What you also might want to look at is a one piece base and make sure that the action is completely level, or bed the one piece base so that it is completely level. If the bases are not level you run the risk of putting the stress on the scope tube and actually bending it, which will decrease you accuracy and destroy the scope a lot sooner than you would anticipate it lasting you. Last scope I saw destroyed that way was a Vortex crossfire that was on a base that was torqued down to compensate for their being a difference of .0015 (which is apretty good sized gap). That in turn bent the scope tube almost that much and ended up cracking an internal lens after about 200rds of recoil. Now it could have been the base, or the action that was off, or a combination of both. But having a one piece base allows you to check for that and correct the problem, while two piece bases do not. I have seen everything from a $35 Weaver Tactical base to a $180 Badger Ordnance base need to be bedded. While many will argue the more you spend the better the precision that is true to a point. You are still taking two pieces of metal, milled by two different companies from machines that run on different tolerances and might be at different places in their wear cycles and put them together. There is the possibility of there being a small gap.
Don't know what kind of shooting you are doing (hunting, matches, fun?) or the kind of accuracy you are looking for... My philosophy is to make every rifle I own as accurate as I possibly can so when it comes down to it I can never blame my equipment for a miss. Everything from my plinking .22 to my competition 308 is bedded and stress free from the action up to the scope rings...
Just my
