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Saving MOA's when mounting a new scope???
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<blockquote data-quote="abinok" data-source="post: 83871" data-attributes="member: 16"><p><strong>Re: Saving MOA\'s when mounting a new scope???</strong></p><p></p><p>Basically, no.</p><p>But you can shim it if you really want to... but its not going to get you much. The best thing to do would be to mount the scope, boresight it, and zero it at whatever the closest range you are going to be shooting it at. Then you will know how many moa you have in both directions, and you will have a good idea just how many MOA you would need built into a base if you decide to get one. Lets say you have 64moa in your scope, and when you zero (at 100) you find that the centered factory seting just happens to be perfect... aint gonna happen, but lets say it does. This gives you 32moa up, and 32moa down. If you went to a 20moa base you would have 52moa up, and 12moa down.</p><p>But you really won't know anything untill you have a flat base zero.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="abinok, post: 83871, member: 16"] [b]Re: Saving MOA\'s when mounting a new scope???[/b] Basically, no. But you can shim it if you really want to... but its not going to get you much. The best thing to do would be to mount the scope, boresight it, and zero it at whatever the closest range you are going to be shooting it at. Then you will know how many moa you have in both directions, and you will have a good idea just how many MOA you would need built into a base if you decide to get one. Lets say you have 64moa in your scope, and when you zero (at 100) you find that the centered factory seting just happens to be perfect... aint gonna happen, but lets say it does. This gives you 32moa up, and 32moa down. If you went to a 20moa base you would have 52moa up, and 12moa down. But you really won't know anything untill you have a flat base zero. [/QUOTE]
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