Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Actual Use of Scope Alignment Bars

I followed the scope alignment bar discussion with great interest here recently. I decided to increase my looneyism a notch and ordered up a Wheeler Kit (1" + 30mm + lapping bars + torque wrench) for $85 from Cabelas. The first thing I wanted to do was check the alignment on my rings for my Ruger #1 as I had my doubts. Now this particular rifle has extension rings so I can get the scope close enough for proper eye relief.



So I placed the 1" alignment bars with pointy tips facing each other. This didn't look too good.



As most folks here were saying that it was better to have the cylinder ends facing each other, I tried it the other way around. This looks even worse and gives a better visualization of what's amiss.



My question is: can this much misalignment be lapped out? If not, what's a better solution? Things are ok in the vertical plane and the alignment problem is pretty much in the horizontal plane.