Had another thought on the offset scope. You may want to concider setting the sccope on a slight skew to the barrel.
Instead of the horizontal being well, horizontal, rotate it slightly. Still trying to think which direction, clock wise/counter clock wise.
Reason... If you are going to use range indexed turrets, as you adjust your range the "cros hair" is moved down to make you point the rifle higher. If you are zeroed at 100 and adjusted to say 200 the elevation would be correct but the shot will go to the left as you increase your distance. (assuming the scope is on the left side). If you cant the scope in the mount, as you change your elevation the windage will also move. This can be easily experienced with a poorly aligned scope centered over on any rifle.
Now on that same thought, if you are adjusting your elevation with indexed turrets you may as well go with index turrets for the windage.
Example Increase elevation 3 clicks and 1 click in windage. You would have to make sure you can easily and deliberatly return to 100 zero via index marks etc.
Almost sounds like the scope will be worth more than the rifle but then again isn't that the way it works anyways?
