LOL
And get some protection also I think.

I take off the open sights on all my rifles with scopes. I just cant stand how they look with those branch grabbers on there.
That model 7 should be kept as light as possible. If you used raisedrings forthe scopethan its understandable otherwise theres no real reason to have them on there unless you think you might drop gun or break scope in woods and would take off the rings and bases and use opens sights.