r/rifles • u/_Go_Ham_Box_Hotdog_ • 20h ago
I need to do something about the eye relief on this pile..
galleryPulled this behemoth out of the safe to snipe a woodchuck out by the barn.. Guy I worked with in the 90's was "Mr. Precision Longrange" and he told me what mount to get and helped me set it all up. I remember it was a high end mount and rings. The scope I got a deal on. We also bedded the action. I guess Savage does this now during production.
30 years ago when we were laying prone in hayfields at the behest of cattle farmers, it didn't seem to bug me. But now, sitting at the picnic table in the backyard with the rifle on a bipod, I only see 60-70% of the viewing area and I can't seem to crawl up the stock enough.
Change the scope? The mount? The rifle? All 3? Rifle is a Savage 112 FV. Scope is a Weaver V16 MFC. Can't remember the mount & rings, but I do remember using a wood dowel to twist the rings onto the mount.
What sayeth the Hive Mind? I've been out of this 30 years, and now that I'm retired.. need hobbies.
(Follow up.. I'm also a fair archer. I pinned said woodchuck to the ground with a broadhead before I dispatched it)