Bending the bolt handle on a Mesa

[Caleb777]

Has anyone bent their bolt handle on their Christensen Arms rifles? I hear a lot of complaints about them not clearing the scopes or just barely clearing..making it uncomfortable and slow to work the action. I have experienced the latter with a vortex pst on the rifle. Now looking to go to a smaller objective lens optic and I fear it will move me even closer to the bolt handle when I put lower rings on…further decreasing my clearance. I don’t see why a little heat and putting a few more degrees of bend in the handle would hurt anything?? The worst I could see is the bolt clearance in the stock needing a little opening afterwards.