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ORIGINAL: cataway

IMHO forget about that kind of ring and get the scope as close to the gun as you can. but if you have to have it you will need to shim one end of the scope up, and if memory servers it will have to be the front ring that will need the shim.if it dont work it goes in the back ring

Yes, this gentleman is correct. There are several serious drawbacks to those "see-'em-under" mounts. The first problem is that they treat your scope as the auxiliary sight, putting it up in the air so you have to get your face up off the comb of the stock to use it. The scope is the primary sight, and chances are very sliim that you will ever need the iron sights anyway. Having the scope up in the air this way is unsteady and slow, making it difficult to acquire the target. In addition, and even worse, those setups are pretty weak, allowing the scope to get knocked out of alignment too easily in the field. (Look how thin those aluminum rings are!!)

As regards shimming, if the rifle is shooting too high, the shim needs to be placed on the bottom of the front ring, so that the scope center will point higher in relation to the spot on the target where the bullets are hitting. This makes you have to depress the muzzle some to get the reticle on the point of impact, thus lowering where the bullet srikes.

A small group, however, is the mostimportant thing because you can move it to anyplace you want it on the target by fiddling with the scope adjustments and mount setup.