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- Thread starter KDX
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thebuckhunter
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- Eastern Ontario
Been using mine for a few years now. Definitely worth it.
-Jason
-Jason
Or, you could prove your scope on the ground with some ammo. All these trinkets do is get you close. To be absolutely sure you need field verification. Relying on fancy bore sighters, levels, feeler guages etc help get there a bit faster is all. Not knocking trinkets, I'm just knocking the fact we rely on gadgets more than rely on our shooting results some times.
It is quickly apparent when you O your rifle at 100m and then adjust vertical 6-12" up and down. Shoot groups at those adjustments. If they are not on the vertical plumb line, then your scope is out of adjustment. Adjust by loostening the rings and move the vertical cross hair in the direction of the group (tiny adjustments usually do the trick). Remember to not return to 0 at the adjustment. Then reshoot a group to confirm you have hit the vertical line.
Best to do this with say a 2'x2' piece of cardboard and use a plumbob or level at verify vertical. The total cost is in your ammo and no gadgets remain to collect dust in your man cave.
Good shooting. My two cents....Elky.
It is quickly apparent when you O your rifle at 100m and then adjust vertical 6-12" up and down. Shoot groups at those adjustments. If they are not on the vertical plumb line, then your scope is out of adjustment. Adjust by loostening the rings and move the vertical cross hair in the direction of the group (tiny adjustments usually do the trick). Remember to not return to 0 at the adjustment. Then reshoot a group to confirm you have hit the vertical line.
Best to do this with say a 2'x2' piece of cardboard and use a plumbob or level at verify vertical. The total cost is in your ammo and no gadgets remain to collect dust in your man cave.
Good shooting. My two cents....Elky.
For each scoped gun I have, I've put the gun in a soft jaw vise, point it towards a known perfectly vertical line (eg. door frame,) and set a small "torpedo" level on a level part on the gun (usually on top of the rear iron sight.) When the gun is perfectly level, I rotate the scope in the rings so that the vertical cross hair is aligned with the known vertical reference, and then tighten the scope ring screws evenly, 1/4 turn at a time. Done, with no fuss...
Finding a level part on the gun can be the hardest part of using these levels, I have experienced that the inside rail and top edge of the reciever sometimes dont provide a level surface for the "level level level"... This I noticed on the weekend with a Model 70.
Adjusting the scope to the lowest setting, stepping back behind the butt and running an imaginary line up the center of the butt plate through the recticle of the scope has always been "close enuf" for me. Some people dont shoulder the gun straight either.
The LEVEL LEVEL LEVEL is an inexpensive tool that is generally worth it though.
Adjusting the scope to the lowest setting, stepping back behind the butt and running an imaginary line up the center of the butt plate through the recticle of the scope has always been "close enuf" for me. Some people dont shoulder the gun straight either.
The LEVEL LEVEL LEVEL is an inexpensive tool that is generally worth it though.
- Location
- New Brunswick
I've always done the same.
