Not a Happy Chappy!

[Surpmil]

The rear lockring is supertight, this will be fun, My fancy scope ring tools don't budge it, I may have to knotch the edge and use a collet type spanner........any suggestions?

Take a block of gumwood or something equally tough about 3 inches square or whatever size will fit in your bench vise and turn a recess in one end about .75" deep with gradually tapering sides, so that the diameter at half depth is about equal to the OD of the scope tube. Get a piece of thin, dry, ungreased leather, place it over the hole and jam the scope down into the hole. Drape the edges of the leather over the sides of the block of wood and clamp both down hard in your vise. If the vise and you and the right height, you can now lean down on the scope as you use both hands to turn it, in the right direction.