SVBony is a Hong Kong maker of budget astronomy optics, microscopes, and spotting scopes. I’ve reviewed a number of their budget hunting spotting scopes but to be perfectly honest, I never knew they made rifle scopes or for the matter, scope rings. They sent me a set of their 1″ budget rings to test out.
They sent me four pairs of rings, a low and high set of 11mm dovetail rings and a low and high set of Picatinny rings. They all fit 1″ (25mm) tube scopes and SVBony also sent me their 3-12×44 AOE scope to test them on.
My first impression was that they looked like every other no-name Chinese budget scope ring with their lemon shaped design. These kinds of rings are often packed with cheap budget scopes for free. But on closer inspection I saw a key improvement, the clamp block in the base were machined from a thick block of aluminum rather than cheap stamped metal.
I borrowed a ring lapping kit to check the alignment of the rings and was surprised to find that they were pretty accurately aligned. This really shouldn’t surprise me because most modern scope factories use CNC milling machines which churn out high quality mass produced rings. This means that lapping is mostly unnecessary except for the competition precession obsessed.
SVBony only sell rings for 1″ tubes (probably because their only rifle scope has a 1″ tube). The rings don’t have flat recoil lugs or the wide surface area I would think required to handle higher recoil. Though rings of this size and type were used on hunting rifles back in the 70’s and 80’s so it’s possible. The rings are best suited for light recoiling rimfire (22LR, 17HMR) or airguns. They currently retail $8 price make them among the cheapest available on Amazon.
SV185 scope rings: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MTPC8F6?ref=myi_title_dp
SV177 rifle scope: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LB4MNGG?ref=myi_title_dp
SVBONY store link: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/DCFE958E-C429-4584-AEB9-10745E22703F?ingress=2&visitId=3624e090-28be-44d7-9332-2f4accd37f08&ref_=ast_bln
