Help with Scope Mounts

RR,

The mount looks just fine. Are you having a problem with it? Do you have enough eye relief? There is nothing wrong with how it looks. Let us know if there are function problems.
 
No, no problems. It is just I have seen them mounted with the mounts switched front to back compared to how I mounted them. I just don't want to go to the range or deer camp with friends and have poke fun at me for being a rifle newbie and having my mounts on backwards. I did adjust for eye relief and the position of the scope works for me. Thanks.
 
I think you have them right. The relief in the rear scope mount is to clear the adjustments when the scope is further forward. If you reversed the mounts, the scope would be back closer to your eye. Being a stock crawler myself, and having experienced scope brow impressions on a couple of occassions, I like the scope as far from my eye as I can stand it, and use the focus to compensate. Scout scopes where I can, and tube forward to the max where I can't.

You may want to rethink the Loctite. Nothing is more annoying than a scope getting loose in the middle of shooting. You usually don't notice it right away, wasting ammo trying to figure out why your groups got bigger until you do? Use blue or green Loctite. Don't use the red (271) as it requires heat to losen it. You could apply the purple wick-in kind without undoing your work, but I don't have a good sense of how reliable it really is? Let us know if you try it and it works?

Nice looking rig. Now you just have to find a tack driving load for it, and you'll be set to enjoy the season.

Nick
 
Thanks, I reload so I will hopefully zero in on a great load by summers end. Have never reloaded rifle catridges before so my first few were disasters. Have not been able to shot any of the successes yet. Thought I should use manufactured rounds to start anyway.
 
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