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Long Range Scopes and Other Optics
Scope leveling
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<blockquote data-quote="Varmint Hunter" data-source="post: 1463070" data-attributes="member: 313"><p>One thing that I have noticed is that the various methods of leveling a rifle often don't agree with each other.</p><p>If you put a level across the raceways and another on the top of the receiver, or atop of a pic rail, or atop of any other point of reference they rarely agree.</p><p>It seems to me that a level rifle should have the center of the optics directly over and plumb with the center of the bore. Not much else should matter. There is a tool that indicates this but I question its accuracy. If you use the device and put a machinist's level across the raceways they are, at times, not even close.</p><p>Leveling a scope is fairly easy but determining when a rifle is perfectly level or plumb before you do so is the difficult part.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Varmint Hunter, post: 1463070, member: 313"] One thing that I have noticed is that the various methods of leveling a rifle often don't agree with each other. If you put a level across the raceways and another on the top of the receiver, or atop of a pic rail, or atop of any other point of reference they rarely agree. It seems to me that a level rifle should have the center of the optics directly over and plumb with the center of the bore. Not much else should matter. There is a tool that indicates this but I question its accuracy. If you use the device and put a machinist's level across the raceways they are, at times, not even close. Leveling a scope is fairly easy but determining when a rifle is perfectly level or plumb before you do so is the difficult part. [/QUOTE]
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