Lol, no problemYou are correct, I was thinking a little backwards, by lowering the rear of the scope you are effectively raising your crosshairs and line of sight. My bad, should have thought about it a little more before inserting my foot !!!!!
Sorry to be confusing but maybe I'm not explaining it correctly. The elevation knob on scope is maxed out upward, with reticle on the bull's-eye of target, the gun is still shooting 3 1/2 feet high. With that being said, I see it as the rear of the scope needs to drop in order to raise reticle to point of impact.
That's what I was thinking but the way they Are machined I don't believe they won't work the other way. The front of the receiver is a lot more circular than the rear
I need to pull it apart to see if there's any marks on tube from this new set of rings.
Yes you are correct. Sorry I was thinking about that backwards. It seems odd though that the rear had to be shimmed before and now the rear is to high. Before I did anything I would measure from the scope tube to the bolt and see if the front and rear are the same or not. If you dont have a caliper or anything to measure with get a piece of wire or even wood or a tooth pick or sometihng like that and cut it down till it fits between the scope and bolt in the front and then compare how it fits in the rear.
Ok, yeah the reason why it's opposite is because they are two different brands of rings. First I had a problem one way and now I have it the other way. Bs, lol
If needed, I would shim way before machining. And then you would want to lap the rings because you just changed the center of alignment with the shim.
Muleys, call the techs at Leupold and ask them how to proceed. If you have to send it back in, no biggie it's got a lifetime warranty.
It really makes no sense that 1 brand would be low in the back and the other high in the back. None of this makes any sense. You have a factory gun and rings and bases made for it should work without any mods. I would talk to Weatherby. It may be possible your gun was made right around a model change or they changed the receiver slightly and the mounts are not correct because of it, just a thought. I understand why you like the 2 piece bases, I like them better too, but any time you have to shim or modify the base I think a 1 piece is much better since it will be much solider and it will also keep the scope rings in alignment. I think the shim had trouble working out because of the recoil of the 300 Weatherby with 2 piece bases. I think with a 1 piece base and a well made shim that the screws go through it would stay in place and work just fine. Good luck and let us know what you figure out!
We'll, I called Leupold and the said I had the wrong bases. So I ordered the the ones they suggested. Hopefully this will take care of the problem. After I get them, I'll remount everything and head to the range.
