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LOL.

Talley did have AWSOME service about it: they sent me a replacement, immediately, and told me to mail in the other, when I could.

FWIW, you can cut shims from a coke can (.010"), and I've stacked up to two, to get a rig centered.

Sounds like you really upgraded there. Carry on though..

Did you try to center the cross hairs?You have to do it with the scope not attached to the rifle.

You don't think a VX3 is an upgrade compared to a Nikon prostaff?

My first set of talleys was a disappointment. The leupold vx2 I mounted yesterday didn't have enough windage adjustment with them. Centered the crosshairs in the scope and put on a one piece rail with weaver rings and it took 3 clicks to from center to dial in the windage at 100 yards.

Makes as much sense as replacing the gun. Just shim or get offset Burris signature rings.

Can I please suggest you check that you have the correct bases and that the rings are around the right way, as in the correct one is at the front and rear, the rear of the scope should be higher than the front.
To centre the cross hair, all you need to do is wind it one way all the way until stops, then wind it the opposite way all the way and count how many clicks it takes, halve that number and wind it back that number, do both, windage and elevation.

Cheers.

I'd contact DNZ and explain the problem before I'd shim the base. For some reason when we buy a new car we are more than willing to get the dealer to make it right but with firearms and related items we seem to want to fix their problem if in fact it is their problem.

I found this on OpticsTalk- a guy had taken it off an old Bushnell box.




This help?

I have my grandfather's Remington 740 and we have the rear scope ring shimmed for this reason. It wears a Leupold 4x Mountaineer.

How do you shim down using traditional shims? With the Burris Signature rings and eccentric synthetic inserts one can move the POI a long distance. But I digress...how do you shim down? Wouldn't you have to remove material from the bottom of the base to lower the ring?

You put a shim under the back to angle the mount downward.

It can seem counter-intuitive a bit. Sort of like working with a mirror image.

Yeah, that's what I've done in the past. I was referring to the diagram above. It draws a line to the front ring and says "shim front base for additional downward movement". That seems more confusing than just counter-intuitive. How do you shim a base and lower it at the same time?

Works the same as iron sights ie you move the rear in the direction you want the POI to go but you move the front in the opposite direction that you want the POI to go.


Mike

That makes sense. Thanks.

I should have just applied the mechanical logic of canted rails, however, the front sight - rear sight tandem of iron sights has two planes of vision. I was under the mistaken impression that a scope combined those two planes into one plane, but then a canted rail wouldn't help anything if my mistaken impression were true.

Shimming is only a bandaid to what is going on here.. Post up a picture.