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Is the rear mount with the windage screws meant to be adjusted using the screws once the scope is mounted? The front sight is the dovetail that typically comes with the 2-piece STD mounts. Seems like it should rotate/pivot on the front mount, but I wanted to check first.

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This is not a textbook answer, but my procedure when using STD rings and bases. I feel that adjusting the windage with the screws in the rear base after the scope is mounted places unnecessay stress and strain on the scope tube. I center the bottom half of the rear ring with the windage screws and tighten them. Then proceed to mount the scope and make future adjustments as needed internally within the scope. Neither do I use the scope to twist the front dovetail ring to remove it after it is mounted.

I use the screws to get as close on windage as possible. Just not with the scope in the rings. I mount things up centered as well as I can, place the scope then check it with a collimator bore sight tool. If I need to move the windage screws then I take the scope out, move the screws, and front ring so as to not tweak the scope, and repeat mount and bore sight. I do this until I'm where I need to be. Then align the front ring if any more is needed and torque the windage screws to final value. I'll then lap the rings and mount the scope, torqueing the ring screws appropriately. I use the Wheeler engineering hand tools and have turned my own 1", 30mm, and 34mm rods for indicating alignment. You can buy these commercially too.