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Leveling your scope
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<blockquote data-quote="mattj" data-source="post: 255061" data-attributes="member: 8758"><p>I'm with you now -- my clarification of that though would be that the important thing to be level to is not the action/bore, but instead <strong>gravity</strong>-- ie your scope can be canted with respect to your action, but as long as you get the reticle level with respect to gravity each time you shoot, you will not have the problem you describe (only a very tiny amount of horizontal offset, which won't be noticeable on target). Likewise, your reticle can be absolutely perfectly plumb with your action/bore, but if you cant the whole rifle with respect to gravity when you shoot (which is very easy to do without realizing it), you will have that problem...</p><p></p><p>So my point is that it is far more important to have an anti-cant device set up to tell you when your reticle is level with respect to gravity than it is to worry about being perfectly plumb with the action --- hence I don't concern myself all that much with getting the scope *perfectly* canted in the rings (I do my best to get it as close as I can without special tools), but am very careful about setting up my anti-cant device so that I my reticle gets aligned to gravity for every shot.</p><p></p><p>-Matt</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mattj, post: 255061, member: 8758"] I'm with you now -- my clarification of that though would be that the important thing to be level to is not the action/bore, but instead [b]gravity[/b]-- ie your scope can be canted with respect to your action, but as long as you get the reticle level with respect to gravity each time you shoot, you will not have the problem you describe (only a very tiny amount of horizontal offset, which won't be noticeable on target). Likewise, your reticle can be absolutely perfectly plumb with your action/bore, but if you cant the whole rifle with respect to gravity when you shoot (which is very easy to do without realizing it), you will have that problem... So my point is that it is far more important to have an anti-cant device set up to tell you when your reticle is level with respect to gravity than it is to worry about being perfectly plumb with the action --- hence I don't concern myself all that much with getting the scope *perfectly* canted in the rings (I do my best to get it as close as I can without special tools), but am very careful about setting up my anti-cant device so that I my reticle gets aligned to gravity for every shot. -Matt [/QUOTE]
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