Well, I didn’t invent it, I learned it from Phil Shoemaker and his daughter Tia - he does it on his. 458 and she on her Echols 416.Please excuse my ignorance I'm trying to learn something now ... Indexing the scope 90* so the turret is out of the way of the ejection port ,,, is that a common practice on just that rifle in question or something to think about on some of my bolt guns ? I shoot a bunch with open sights on my lever guns and I just scoped my cz in 375hh and 416rigby just last week to start brushing up before a trip so shooting around my property with a scope I know is much different than when something is possibly running you down , (that's why my lever guns have open sights it's what I pig hunt regularly with) , I don't hunt out of the safety of a tree stand or buggy so my feet are usually always on the ground and I probably don't run as fast as I used to
when I first saw it I couldn’t believe I didn’t think about it before then. I had a 375 that *on occasion* would send the brass into the corner of the turret and also, if you practice running and loading, getting that sharp corner away from where your thumb will go when you jam in rounds isn’t a bad idea.
you don’t see it often, but there is some practicality behind it.
