This has been one of my chief rants over the last couple of years… that the advent of the new rails and rings, which are actually pretty high quality, add so much height to the shooting position, that when you go from your iron sights to your scope you have to raise the cheekpiece 1/4″ to 3/8″. On this project I set out to make the scope at the same height as my iron sights. One of the things that I discovered is that when you order a set of rings (that they call low rings now) are the same height as an old set of Weaver rings. You think you’re getting low rings and they are actually high rings. The whole affair ends up that you have an extremely high cheekpiece when you get done. After arguing with the parts for 2 years, I decided to build a prototype for myself to see if it could be done, and still end up with a set of workable, reliable, repeatable rings that ended up the same height as the iron sights. I think this whole problem developed over having rings and bases to satisfy the tactical shooters. I appreciate the precision and the quality of rings that are being made for tactical rifles, but what you lose is the ability to shoot a prone rifle in a comfortable position. Or maybe I’m just getting to be a cranky old fart….
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This prone rifle in custom English Walnut is for long range target shooting, and probably will work well for F class with the addition of plates for the rests. It has a Hart 6mm 1:8″ barrel, chambered in 6BRX. The length of pull is adjustable. The trigger guard is custom made for this stock based on trigger placement. 
The cheekpiece height is adjustable and if you notice you will see that there is a small clearance between the end of the cheekpiece and butt plate so that the cheekpiece can be adjusted right and left and also pivots heel to toe.
The scope rail has 15 minutes of elevation built in.
The pistol grip cap is custom Hawaiian Koa and is actually the mirror image piece from the Mango stock (see previous post).
More pictures and description tomorrow. The light wasn’t very good tonight.
Working on scope rails for high power target rifles. The problem with machining scope rails is coming up with a dimension that will fit most of the scope rings. The rails will be cut for different actions. Some will be on Remingtons, Barnards, Winchesters, BATS, etc. I make up a bunch of these rails and then fit to each individual action to ensure accuracy. They are lapped into each action as necessary.
