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<blockquote data-quote="7magcreedmoor" data-source="post: 1064740" data-attributes="member: 48559"><p>We were all greenhorns once, welcome aboard! From your description of the problem, I am betting the outside contour of your receiver is a little off spec, which gives you the effect of a "reverse" canted rail. Put it to the test this way: pull the scope, then remove the base screws from the back end of the rail. Betcha there is a tiny gap under the rail. If this is the case, when you tighten the rear screws it pulls the back of the rail down, tilting it the wrong way. To fix this, bed the back end of the rail to fill the gap. With 65MOA of internal adjustment, and a properly aligned rail, reaching 1000 yards should be no problem. You don't give details on your load, but I am guessing that somewhere between 22 and 28 MOA from your zero is in the neighborhood for 1K. If you are using a 0 MOA rail, you can switch to Burris Zee Posi-lign rings and get some lift with the offset inserts. I have two rifles, one with a flat (0MOA) rail, and one with a +20MOA rail and use the Burris rings on both. The one with the "flat" rail will shoot well past 1K yards. On my latest build with the 20moa rail my 200 yard zero is only 13MOA off the mechanical bottom of the scope, which lets me reach 1000 yards while in pretty much the middle of the adjustment range. Another advantage of the inserts is being able to zero the windage at or near the mechanical center as well. </p><p> Another tip: you're talking clicks and inches. Simplify your life from now on by doing all your thinking in minutes, without the conversions. Print your drop charts in MOA, dial MOA on the turret. When spotting your hits, measure MOA with the reticle, dial the correction, re-engage. You will process the information faster and more naturally by eliminating all that arithmetic. Good luck and good shooting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="7magcreedmoor, post: 1064740, member: 48559"] We were all greenhorns once, welcome aboard! From your description of the problem, I am betting the outside contour of your receiver is a little off spec, which gives you the effect of a "reverse" canted rail. Put it to the test this way: pull the scope, then remove the base screws from the back end of the rail. Betcha there is a tiny gap under the rail. If this is the case, when you tighten the rear screws it pulls the back of the rail down, tilting it the wrong way. To fix this, bed the back end of the rail to fill the gap. With 65MOA of internal adjustment, and a properly aligned rail, reaching 1000 yards should be no problem. You don't give details on your load, but I am guessing that somewhere between 22 and 28 MOA from your zero is in the neighborhood for 1K. If you are using a 0 MOA rail, you can switch to Burris Zee Posi-lign rings and get some lift with the offset inserts. I have two rifles, one with a flat (0MOA) rail, and one with a +20MOA rail and use the Burris rings on both. The one with the "flat" rail will shoot well past 1K yards. On my latest build with the 20moa rail my 200 yard zero is only 13MOA off the mechanical bottom of the scope, which lets me reach 1000 yards while in pretty much the middle of the adjustment range. Another advantage of the inserts is being able to zero the windage at or near the mechanical center as well. Another tip: you're talking clicks and inches. Simplify your life from now on by doing all your thinking in minutes, without the conversions. Print your drop charts in MOA, dial MOA on the turret. When spotting your hits, measure MOA with the reticle, dial the correction, re-engage. You will process the information faster and more naturally by eliminating all that arithmetic. Good luck and good shooting. [/QUOTE]
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