Nice plinker you gut there, enjoy!

Wouldn't be too quick to remove the vernier, they can be useful in the field, and you still have the option of using either sight.

You don't have to scratch it. Have several guns that have been used a LOT that have yet to suffer such indignity.

I am..........disturbed.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain