Do any of you folks know if there's anyone out there making low QD rings that will fit the CZ 550? I don't know if it's even possible to make low QD rings with the way the lever etc. comes into play but I thought I'd ask. Tried to site in the 458 Lott today with a new 2-7x Leupold and the scope is running out of adjustment (elevation). I think the quickest way to cure it is is to get lower rings, but they need to be QD's as this gun is going to Zimbabwe in a few months.

You might check out Warne for those.

Talley makes them in 1" and 30mm for the CZ550 and I use them on my 600AHR's with NO problems!...Americanhuntingrifles.com carries them in stock or go to Talley direct...

Kingfisher: In the first place, the height of the rings is irrelavent to your problem of running out of adjustment. It is the direction the scope points relative to the bore, not the distance from the bore, that is relavent to your adjusment problem.

If your problem is that the gun is shooting too high, even by moving the scope adjustment to the lowest extreme, then you need to shim under your front ring (a few thicknesses of ordinary aluminum foil works fine). By "shim" I mean place the shimming material between the underside of the scope and the lower ring. If it is shooting too low, shim under the rear ring.

The problem with putting a lower ring on the CZ's is the very protrusive base of the bolt that projects upward (when the bolt is opened) so much that low scope mounting is not possible. I'm puzzled as to why CZ builds its actions this way as there is no utility to the "fat" bolt base. You could have a gunsmith mill down the excess metal on the bolt base in order to clear a lower scope, but the problem would then be finding an appropriately lower ringmount as manufacturers have to build their CZ mounts high enough to clear the unwieldy bolt root.

Talley and Warne both have them, but neither of them make low mount, they're all medium's or high's. Probably for the reasons Stonecreek mentioned, i.e. bolt clearance.

The Warnes that are on there because of the way they mount, are not really conducive to shimming, so I'll have to look at other avenues... or a scope with more adjustment. The scope ran out of adjustment much quicker than I had expected, and as far as I'm concerned, a lot sooner than it should have.

the reason they dont make them is the bolt will hit the eye piece.