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

Try a shim for a start. Easy fix at virtually no cost

thats what id do

Ended up going to the farm this morning
I kept it as it was but if I adjusted the ao I just checked for gap before shooting

Put 40 rounds through the rifle with no ill affects

Had this on a mate’s Sauer 202 with a NF SHV. I put a piece of electrical tape on the bottom of the front ring and the top of the rear ring and it lifted the scope 1mm or so. He’s shot a hat full of fallow, red, roe and muntjac since.

There are two ways to look at this. First. It's impossible for the ring height to be just right, that it's zero and just touching. Far more likely is that it's a little bit too low by a few hundredth of a millimeter or something. Therefore, each shot must send through vibration into the scope.

The second way to look at this is that, The reason no one knows whether it's bad is because no one has been in this situation before. Because everybody avoids it if they can. So even if it is just a 50/50 chance this may be bad, It is still a risk, not worth taking. I can see no gain from doing this over having a tiny amount of shim.

The bell just touches on one of mine haven't had any I'll effects it was like that when I got it and I've never bothered to change it