Chopping Down a SWFA Turret - How to?

[BBob]

Get someone to turn the fluted flange off the turrets and call it a day. Smaller and resist turning from rubbing up against something.

 

[sickles107]

Before you commit to cutting anything, you can just pull the turret off and put a rubber cap over the existing stem. Eliminates the brass interface at least.

Cutting the stem just allows the rubber cap to sit flush/ more tight to the scope body.

Could only find the below pic. I have setups done both ways and can take pics/measurements of both if you want.

Cutting is fairly straight forward. I pull the oring and cut at that height with a thin disk dremel. Then cut a notch in the top to allow turning with a coin. Just make sure to tape up from scope body to base of stem so cut off dust does not get into internal assembly.

 

[Reddish]

Before you commit to cutting anything, you can just pull the turret off and put a rubber cap over the existing stem. Eliminates the brass interface at least.

Cutting the stem just allows the rubber cap to sit flush/ more tight to the scope body.

Could only find the below pic. I have setups done both ways and can take pics/measurements of both if you want.

Cutting is fairly straight forward. I pull the oring and cut at that height with a thin disk dremel. Then cut a notch in the top to allow turning with a coin. Just make sure to tape up from scope body to base of stem so cut off dust does not get into internal assembly.

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I just pulled the turret off for now. Seems like that will probably give me the clearance I need. I’ll put a few more rounds through it to see if I smash any fingers.

It’s only been an issue with SWFA on this 457 with low rings. I could go to medium and get a cheap riser, but didn’t want to do that.

 

[sickles107]