Rifle Scopes My brain is broken - help!

[Deadeye_Dan]

Steiner T5Xi, shipped with the elevation bottomed out (.3 mil of downward travel) and a recommendation to use 45 moa of cant.
Rifle has a a 20 moa rail and a Spuhr 4602 (20 moa) mount.

I’m 15” high at 50 yards and have no ability to lower poi...

so - am I thinking correctly that moving to a 30 moa rail will bring me down far enough that I should be able get a 100 yard zero?

 

[hafejd30]

More can’t will only cause your poi to raise more. A 20 MOA rail and 0 MOA base would be just fine. Also check to see if the zero stop is set on the scope limiting your adjustment to come down

 

[918v]

Maybe you’re hitting the zero stop? What is the purpose of your rifle? Why do you need that much cant? Most people use 20 MOA.

 

[Bender]

Check Zero stop

 

[Rob01]

Yeah you should have plenty of elevation even with 40 MOA. Check zero stop. If it's not the stop then I would ditch the mount and get a good set of rings and just use the 20 MOA on the rifle.

Also a hint. Forget inches. Use the reticle to tell you how high you are.

 

[Deadeye_Dan]

Thanks for the thoughts so far.

confirmed the issue isn’t the zero stop - going to back down to 20 moa of total cant and see where that puts me

 

[dpb1776]

check your mills of travel, I have a Burris and I thought I had bottomed it out first time messing with zero stop and I was way off so had to loosen the screws and two complete revolutions to bottom it out. Then easy to set up. I am only using a 20 moa and that gets me plenty, 45 seems like a lot