Jeff,
I tend to be a 'stock crawler' and have, I hate to say, gotten wacked or bumped in the eye several times.

For that reason, I prefer to mount my scopes with the end of the occular lined up with the point where the back of the action meets the stock(the tang?) and do any fine adjusting from that point depending upon the rifle, scope, etc.

So, I prefer my scopes considerably farther foward than what seems to suit you.


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