Enough Gap for Scope and Rail?

[General RE LEE]

The long action 700 base for my 7mm STW makes getting clearance for medium rings tricky. I can get a comfortable shoulder and good FOV in this position but scope bell is pretty close to rail.

Good to go?

 

[Trees91]

I've ran them close like that with no issue. I have also used a file or cut off a bit of the rail to make things fit better..

 

[Ryan Avery]

You are fine.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I’d probably hit it with a grinder and shorten it up but that’s just me.

 

[SomeJackassOnAForum]

These are basically completely ridgid objects. We've all seen videos of barrel whip but nothing like that is happening at the receiver, and certainly not the rail.

 

[packer58]

Like the others have said, your fine. It looks to me like you have a couple credit card thickness's of clearance +/- and that's plenty. But.......if it bothers you, you can take a fine tooth file and bevel that 90* corner just a touch to gain a little more space. Cold blue if it's a steel rail or black sharpie if it's aluminum.

 

[TNKnoxville]

I trimmed mine with a dremel to give it a bit more clearance.

 

[Rock-o]

Mounts and scopes flex. More likely the mount though. And, in particular, a cantilever style vs rings on a pic rail. There are Youtube videos. I bet your setup is fine as is.