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Is 40 moa on a scope enough?
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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 183510" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Get in your truck and drive to the nearest National Forest or WMA and get out and walk 50 feet. Pick up any one of the five or six beer cans you will see and take it home. Leave the other beer cans where they lay so that the hunters who like to brag about how they protect the environment will have evidence of their sincerity.</p><p></p><p>When you get home wait until your wife is occupied elsewhere and neak into the kithchen and get her shears and go out to the garage. Cut small "H" shaped pieces out of the beer can to go under the scope base to shim it up either on the front or the rear. Usually the front, however being as I oftentimes get this part wrong don't take my word for it. Take a hard something or other and mash the shims very flat so that there is no bumpy edges and the base will tighten down well.</p><p></p><p>On a long action Rem 700, a shim thickness of 0.001 will move the bullet strike about 1.0 MOA (more or less). So to get 10 MOA of shim you need about 0.010 inches of beer can "H"s. For a short action you get more MOA for the shim. Place the shims under the front of the base so that the screws go between the legs of the " H" and the "H" cannot fall out. Sneak back into the kitchen and replace the shears.</p><p></p><p>If you try to shim too much, the base screws will be too short and you will come to grief. </p><p></p><p>Go out and zero the rifle and see how much everything changed.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If all of this does not seem very entertaining then just order you a set of Burris Signature rings with inserts and have at it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 183510, member: 8"] Get in your truck and drive to the nearest National Forest or WMA and get out and walk 50 feet. Pick up any one of the five or six beer cans you will see and take it home. Leave the other beer cans where they lay so that the hunters who like to brag about how they protect the environment will have evidence of their sincerity. When you get home wait until your wife is occupied elsewhere and neak into the kithchen and get her shears and go out to the garage. Cut small "H" shaped pieces out of the beer can to go under the scope base to shim it up either on the front or the rear. Usually the front, however being as I oftentimes get this part wrong don't take my word for it. Take a hard something or other and mash the shims very flat so that there is no bumpy edges and the base will tighten down well. On a long action Rem 700, a shim thickness of 0.001 will move the bullet strike about 1.0 MOA (more or less). So to get 10 MOA of shim you need about 0.010 inches of beer can "H"s. For a short action you get more MOA for the shim. Place the shims under the front of the base so that the screws go between the legs of the " H" and the "H" cannot fall out. Sneak back into the kitchen and replace the shears. If you try to shim too much, the base screws will be too short and you will come to grief. Go out and zero the rifle and see how much everything changed. If all of this does not seem very entertaining then just order you a set of Burris Signature rings with inserts and have at it. [/QUOTE]
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