ORIGINAL: spaniel
How is shimming a "band-aid"? Would installing a base with a machined cant, like long-range shooters do, similarly be a band-aid? My gun has been wearing its band-aid for about 6-7 years now and shoots MOA or better to 400 yards. I don't see anything sub-optimal with this setup, and a soda can is a hell of a lot cheaper than going through more rings and bases, or paying to send the barrel back and hoping the one you get back is a) lacking the problem, and b) as accurate as the good one you sent in. And that you get it back in time to tune and hunt with it yet this year.
Band-aid indicates temporary, something you will have to mess with in the future. If you shim a base correctly you will never have to mess with it again unless you take it off the gun. It is as permanent as any scope mount.
Shimming a scope is fixing a problem that should not exist!! If you can not understand that then I can not help you??
So yes, you are either temporarily fixing the rifle, or you are perrmanently avoiding the problem. Tom.