best AR "scope" mount?

How do you feel about gas station pocket knives?
Exactly..... best glass in the world is useless when attached with cheap rings/mounts.

I get that much, but wondering where the quality comes into play. Using the gas station knife as example, I would tell someone buying a bench made that they are getting:

-more expensive steel alloys
-less brittle
-stronger
-hold edge longer
-more expensive blade and edge geometry that is more expensive to produce
-consistent and smooth spring assisted opening
-lifetime warranty
-strong locking
-blah
-blah
-bah


With that in mind, I'm wondering WHAT encompasses 'quality' in a standard dimension mount with standard dimension rings? If its the steel is better, how does that translate to better performance or desired qualities (say, strength and therefore edge retention in analogy)...Would cheap rings actually shear if dropped? I'm not asking sickishly, im asking seriously because I don't know.
 
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I get that much, but wondering where the quality comes into play. Using the gas station knife as example, I would tell someone buying a bench made that they are getting:

-more expensive steel alloys
-less brittle
-stronger
-hold edge longer
-more expensive blade and edge geometry that is more expensive to produce
-consistent and smooth spring assisted opening
-lifetime warranty
-strong locking
-blah
-blah
-bah


With that in mind, I'm wondering WHAT encompasses 'quality' in a standard dimension mount with standard dimension rings? If its the steel is better, how does that translate to better performance or desired qualities (say, strength and therefore edge retention in analogy)...Would cheap rings actually shear if dropped? I'm not asking sickishly, im asking seriously because I don't know.
Better quality rings are made to closer tolerances and come with recommended torque specs. I've seen cheap Chinese rings so out of spec that when torqued they actually crushed the scope tube, and I'm not gonna try to guess how many stripped heads and threads I've seen. Quality rings/mounts are made with better materials that can be torqued without damaging the mount or the optics AND they hold zero.
 
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Are any of these mentioned mounts made with 20 moa of adjustment built in? Looking for something to sit on top of an AR10...
 
I get that much, but wondering where the quality comes into play. Using the gas station knife as example, I would tell someone buying a bench made that they are getting:

-more expensive steel alloys
-less brittle
-stronger
-hold edge longer
-more expensive blade and edge geometry that is more expensive to produce
-consistent and smooth spring assisted opening
-lifetime warranty
-strong locking
-blah
-blah
-bah


With that in mind, I'm wondering WHAT encompasses 'quality' in a standard dimension mount with standard dimension rings? If its the steel is better, how does that translate to better performance or desired qualities (say, strength and therefore edge retention in analogy)...Would cheap rings actually shear if dropped? I'm not asking sickishly, im asking seriously because I don't know.


Literally all those things,(except the knife stuff obviously).
 
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