shimming scope base?

ricardo · 03-09-2010, 04:44 AM

i recently bought a 10x42m super sniper scope got it mounted and tuned in for 100 yards but the problem i ran into was it was 27" low and 1' to the right, the widage is fine i still have a bunch of windage adjustment left even out to 1000 yards which i am soon to start trying out, but i lost a lot of my elevation
the rifle is a savage 110 tactical 300 win mag, the rings are the burris tactical rings and bases to match 2 piece,can i just shim under the base to get some of this back, or will this damage the scope being out of line,and do i shim the back base up to raise the bullet impact up so i can dial the elevation back down? oh! and hello to everyone on here, i am new to this site so please excuse my ignorance.

Wambli · 03-09-2010, 11:18 AM

If you are really going to shoot out to 1,000 yards why don't you just get a one piece base with a 20 or a 40 MOA cant built in?

**cpttango30** · 03-09-2010, 11:29 AM

Your going to need a 20moa base and it sounds like you may be close to that.

a 20 moa base is going to be lower in the front not higher. Sounds like your scope may be in a bind with the bases being that out of whack.

ricardo · 03-09-2010, 01:39 PM

Thanks alot guys,i dont know what i was thinking but i thought the moa bases where higher in the front, not lower in the front,DUH!!!!!this will fix my issue.Thanks again.

**opaww** · 03-09-2010, 04:37 PM

Don't shim the base, but shim the ring inside

03-09-2010, 04:44 AM	#1
ricardo Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: oklahoma Posts: 24	shimming scope base? i recently bought a 10x42m super sniper scope got it mounted and tuned in for 100 yards but the problem i ran into was it was 27" low and 1' to the right, the widage is fine i still have a bunch of windage adjustment left even out to 1000 yards which i am soon to start trying out, but i lost a lot of my elevation the rifle is a savage 110 tactical 300 win mag, the rings are the burris tactical rings and bases to match 2 piece,can i just shim under the base to get some of this back, or will this damage the scope being out of line,and do i shim the back base up to raise the bullet impact up so i can dial the elevation back down? oh! and hello to everyone on here, i am new to this site so please excuse my ignorance.

03-09-2010, 11:29 AM	#3
cpttango30 Spicoli Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Stafford VA (Just south of the Rat Race) Posts: 8,399	Your going to need a 20moa base and it sounds like you may be close to that. a 20 moa base is going to be lower in the front not higher. Sounds like your scope may be in a bind with the bases being that out of whack. __________________ Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.- *Dr. Sheldon Cooper*

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opaww Supporting Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Radcliff Ky. Posts: 1,928	Don't shim the base, but shim the ring inside __________________ Lo there do I see my Father...Lo there do I see my mother and my brothers and sisters...Lo there do I see the line of my peoples back to the begaining...Tho they do call to me...They bid me come take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla...Where the brave may live forever Opaww's Range Opaww's Blog Long distance..The next best thing to being there

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03-09-2010, 11:18 AM	#2
Wambli Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 259	If you are really going to shoot out to 1,000 yards why don't you just get a one piece base with a 20 or a 40 MOA cant built in?

03-09-2010, 01:39 PM	#4
ricardo Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: oklahoma Posts: 24	Thanks alot guys,i dont know what i was thinking but i thought the moa bases where higher in the front, not lower in the front,DUH!!!!!this will fix my issue.Thanks again.