scope/ barrel interference?

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Can I fire this combo or will that crack a lens or worse?
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I believe that you will damage the scope. I have found that, for example, Burris FFII scopes will contact the barrel and dent/harm themselves with even several sheets of paper worth of clearance. I cannot imagine what joy will occur with hard contact, but I would not want it to be my scope that's involved.
 
i had this problem with a .22 match rifle. Next size up rings I had were too high for my liking. I went and got some brass shim stock. Put it between the scope and rings.
 
thank you one and all

I will dismount the scope and replace it with my 1976 Bushnell 3x9x32 Sportview.

The next ten days are the top days for deer hunting here. Oh, well, it was sooo close a fit. Better to be right than sorry.

Next year.

case closed for this year.
 
high rings

I guess what I need is this:
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but they are $66.75 + shipping at Ruger and $51.98 at gunbroker. Are there any cheaper or knock-offs that are any good?
 
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I don't think barrel whip will be an issue if you shim it ( I would use brass shim stock). Millett makes Ruger rings that are not as pricey as Ruger original equipment. Midwest, Brownells, etc. carry them
 
I do not think you dare use the soda-can shim trick with factory "grooved for rings" Ruger reciever...

USUALLY the shims go UNDER the scope mount base... and the Ruger does away with this piece, instead grooving the reciever for special rings that direct-mount... if you shim the rings, you'll screw up the ring-base engagement with the reciever.. and if you shim the scope INSIDE the rings, you'll crush the scope tube...

I wouldn't try this with the factory Ruger asssembly...
 
Ken... the problem is that you have to "line" the whole bottom ring half to keep from creating a"dent" with just a small shim in the bottom... and when you do that, you are filling about half the diameter of the ring...

the clearance on rings is a "mechanical press fit" already, between the scope tube and the ring, that means that when you add material in between the two, where will you get the space for this "shimstock"? Since the rings are solid metal (usually steel), and relatively thick, and the scope tube is thin, hollow aluminum tubing, the scope gets crushed...
 
it has been my experiance that as long as the scope is clear of the barrel, its not going to get damaged from contact. one or two thicknesses of soda can wall under the base should be enough and has never caused any damage that ive seen. your results may vary.
 
RUSTYMAGGOT!!!

please read the posts and look at the pic... he DOES NOT HAVE SCOPE BASES... he has the Ruger factory MILLED RECIEVER and the ONE PIECE RUGER rings made to interlock into the milled action... NO BASES... can't shim them, because it'll screw with the CLAMPING FORCE of the ring-to-action fit!
 
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