Thread: Scope bell touching the barrel just (sometimes) should I risk it

So I have a nice tasco trs24 awesome scopes from when tasco actually made bloody nice scopes in japan
Its a target scope so has ultra fine duplex with tiny dot it’s a awesome scope that’s been on my 22 target rifle for the past year

Recently brought a 204 ruger which im going to start load development for next week and the 16x Nikon monarch i originally mounted on this rifle has a really thick reticle and also I found 16x wasn’t enough to spot the tiny 20cal holes easily

So I borrowed the tasco off the 22 upon mounting it cleared the barrel just enough for the rule of thumb paper test
But i pulled it out today to show a mate and noticed I could no longer see daylight between the ao and barrel
And it no longer passed the paper test however the ao still Operating smoothly after a fiddle I noticed that the ao adjustment has a small amount of up and down play if a small amount of downward pressure is applied when adjusting it moves down to touch the barrel (just ao operates smoothly as normal without binding at all on barrel) and stays there.... if slight Upwards pressure is applied it moves up and clears the barrel to pass the paper test

My question will shooting the rifle in this condition screw anything up?