Go to lowes and get a screw extractor set, the small one. I've had luck solving the same issue you have but only had two stripped screws.... Good luck.....Went to take off a scope today on an AR that I recently took in on trade and the previous owner stripped the shit out of 5 of the hex screws holding the thing on with. Anyone got any tips or tricks to getting this friggin thing off?
I think there's one kind that you drill into the top of the screw and then insert the extractor. The other model is like mine from Sears. It has sharp edges and is supposed to cut into the screw. I never have been able to get the thing to work like it should.
True, if the screw is in so tight that it strips the head there's no way a Bob Villa screw extractor is going to budge it. Drilling a steel screw out of aluminum is just about impossible. If Donut's method doesn't work you may have to sacrifice the rings and dremel cut the thing off.
