Jim , I could see your point IF he was complaining about reaching the stock , he's not . Boyd's stocks can be ordered to fit by 1/2" intervals. I'm sure having your front ring angled back has been done thousands of times , every factory gun has areas where we have to make allowances for . He could just as easily change the stock or the scope or the rings , especially when he sees how much the rings are . When shooting from the bench your position, posture and requirements are different than when prone or standing . A happy medium needs to be found . Even with the fairly high cost of the rings , it's my opinion that it would be a better and less costly alternative than having the stock cut and sanding the butt pad professionally .
We all have different ways of skinning the cat . Out of the thousands , didn't really count but 35 plus yrs of dealing with scope mounting problems , I've never thought of suggesting that the stock should be cut . I have suggested it many hundreds of times ( again never counted ) when the client couldn't have his trigger finger joint at the proper position on the trigger when shouldered . It was very common when we ( shop ) were cutting down 22 rf rifles for Boy Scouts and other youth groups ( shows how long ago , when 22rfs were used )
I personally think having the WINDAGE adjustment on the port side is more of a hindrance than a high angled front ring , guess that's why I set mine up with the windage now doing elevation and the elevation , now on the left side doing windage . Again showing my age , my scopes still have parallax on the objective , and no illuminated scopes .
To each his own ....
