Hey Scott,
I’m trying to find a way to move my scope back far enough to get proper eye relief and I’m really getting frustrated. To begin with, I found your store while googling for shorter eye relief scope bases. Here’s where I’m at; I’ve got a plain 2 crosscut Weaver base to which I’ve mounted Weaver 49045 rings. I still feel like I need to bring the scope back another inch, especially on higher magnification. I’ve looked at a lot of bases online including picatinny and they all seem geared for moving the scope forward.
What do you suggest?
Thank you in advance for your thoughtful reply.
Jim
Hi Jim,
It looks like you have done the obvious, and that is get the dual extension rings and face them both toward the stock.
I really don’t have any other ideas for stock bases. A cheap solution is the have a good machinist or gun smith drill new holes in a 1 piece base that allow it to be installed 1 inch further back than the stock holes.
There could be other issues:
I don’t know the scope you have on there, but if it’s a low powered scope they tend to have short tubes and therefore not much in the way of lee way moving it back. If that’s the case then may want to consider replacing the scope with one with a longer main tube.
As a last resort you may want to consider having a gunsmith measure you and determine if the stock is just too long. I’m not a big guy and have to cut down stocks so the gun fits me.
Scott
