I'm almost done setting up my new 452. I inletted the stock and shimmed the creep out of the trigger. I started to mount the scope in BKL rings and found that in order to get the proper eye relief the scope must be so far forward that the front ring ended up behind the scope turret in order to clamp on the action. The scope is a Simmons Prohunter 6x21x44.

Is this set up ok? Are the BKL offset rings the same height? The rings I have now are the perfect height for a good cheek weld. I haven't tightened up anything yet, wondering if there are other alternatives.

Bill,

I have the same rifle (lefties, UNITE!), and I've got a Nikon ProStaff 3-9 on top. I didn't have the problem you had, but we must not mount the gun the same, or the eye relief on the Simmons is strange, because that seems really far forward to be mounting a scope. If it's comfortable, I'd say on a .22 you'd be fine. There isn't a whole lot of stress on the tube in a rimfire application anyway, so you would probably be fine. I'm pretty sure I've seen some benchrest rifles set up the same way, so I doubt very higly there's anything wrong with the setup. Clamp it down and see how she shoots.


PS - BTW, how did you get rid of the creep in that trigger. I love the rifle, and it's proving to be spectacularly accurate, but there's a good 1/4" of creep in an otherwise great trigger.

I also post on rimfire central and have heard that this particular scope has a long eye relief. I think I'm going to try the offset rings from BKL, I was looking more closely at them and I'm pretty sure they'll work out for me.

As far as the trigger goes I wish I could be as positive as you. For a $300+ gun I was hoping for something better than the trigger on my issued M-16.

Creep can be dealt with two ways that I've heard of. There's a $15 kit from Eric Brooks but he's been tough to get a hold of lately. The second way is to shim the area between the trigger spur and the sear so there's less engagement of the sear.

To save wear and tear on the trigger parts, I made a set of brass pins so I can assemble/disassemble quick and easy as many times as it takes to get it right before installing the original steel pins.

I fixed the over travel by putting a short length of rubber hose over the trigger spring. you can still pull back the trigger firmly to remove the bolt but pulling with only enough force to break the shot, the tube stops further rearward travel.

I searched high and low for a good spring to use instead of the stock trigger spring and found a pack of springs at Home Depot for less than $3. It's a lot longer than the stock spring but much finer so I just stacked it up. It fits fine and the pull is about the same as my S&W 41 pistol.

These two links show these two mods from people who posted on Rimfire central.

http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=204132

http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=197288

These pics have arrows pointing to where the shim goes. I used a .005 shim and JB welded it on.

The last pic shows my action and the pack the spring came in.