Help! Misaligned Pads on No 4.

[Ridolpho]

I may be totally out to lunch here but does the top surface of the front pad not look a wee bit higher than normal? I dug my '43 T out of the safe and, in the OP's photos it seems a bit higher. is it possible the front pad is non-standard forcing the installer to put the rear pad higher than normal. Hard to believe someone would intentionally put the rear pad up that high for no reason. To the OP- how bad is the scopes collimation relative to the bore? The scope body doesn't look too badly misaligned (and it's amazing how easy it is to see misalignment).

Ridolpho

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[vintage hunter]

I may be totally out to lunch here but does the top surface of the front pad not look a wee bit higher than normal?

I agree, it does look a bit high.

is it possible the front pad is non-standard forcing the installer to put the rear pad higher than normal.

Seems there was a thread a while back involving a repro sniper with similar misalignment issues caused by an out of spec front pad.

[smle addict]

I was thinking the same thing, Ridolpho. I thought my eyes were broken, so I ran out and dug my 43 T out of the safe too. I took two pics for of the front pad for comparative purposes. The OP's pads do look taller (thicker?) than an original set.

[jr57]

[QUOTE=Ridolpho;356747]I may be totally out to lunch here but does the top surface of the front pad not look a wee bit higher than normal? I dug my '43 T out of the safe and, in the OP's photos it seems a bit higher. is it possible the front pad is non

Hello, The pads I handed over were Numrich ones and I can only assume that he used them.

The scope might not look too bad on the phots but believe me its miles out of collimation way over to the left and low. The ret is optically centred.