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I bought a rifle-length, Ruger 10/22, and mounted a rimfire, Nikon scope. This weekend, I took the Appleseed class (highly recommended BTW). When welding my cheek to the stock, I found that I had huge problems getting full vision through my scope, especially when seated. The instructor told me that my stock was designed to line my cheek up with the iron sights that were mounted much lower than the scope. With my present setup, when I properly did the cheek weld, the stock would not line my eye up with the scope. Further, I had to intensely press my cheek to the stock to get my eye horizontally in line with the scope to see properly. This was agony on my neck, and made it impossible to qual (201 compared to 221 to pass).
The instructor suggested some pads / spacers on top of my wooden stock, or a whole new monti carlo kind of stock that would raise my eye to the scope.
Does this mean that I need something adjustable like the ones on a Springfield Armory National Match M1A? Most of the Ruger stocks don't seem to be adjustable.
Or is my scope mounted wrong in some way?
I think the most important result of taking training is finding out where your equipment is lacking, and needs adjustment.
The Appleseed training, which occurs at places around every state is highly worthwhile. $75 for two, nine-hour days. They intensively teach you to shoot a rifle (most were .22s) and reliably hit bulls eyes at distance. Most other training runs $250 or more a day.
Thanks
The instructor suggested some pads / spacers on top of my wooden stock, or a whole new monti carlo kind of stock that would raise my eye to the scope.
Does this mean that I need something adjustable like the ones on a Springfield Armory National Match M1A? Most of the Ruger stocks don't seem to be adjustable.
Or is my scope mounted wrong in some way?
I think the most important result of taking training is finding out where your equipment is lacking, and needs adjustment.
The Appleseed training, which occurs at places around every state is highly worthwhile. $75 for two, nine-hour days. They intensively teach you to shoot a rifle (most were .22s) and reliably hit bulls eyes at distance. Most other training runs $250 or more a day.
Thanks