Just purchased a Rem. 700 XCR and called a gunsmith at Gander Mountain about mounting a scope next week.

I've looked at several scopes with 40mm or 44mm bells. The gunsmith at Gander Mountain says he would have to use Leupold medium height rings to mount even the 40mm scope.

I asked a question about this earlier in this forum, and SEVERAL folks said that they have XCR's or other Rem. 700's and were able to use LOW scope rings to mount a 40mm scope.

I was wondering if any of you could post pictures showing the scope mounted with low rings. The gunsmith is telling me that with LOW rings, the bolt handle will hit the eyepiece of the scope when its raised.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.