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<blockquote data-quote="Varmint Hunter" data-source="post: 1973883" data-attributes="member: 313"><p>I totally agree with you on this. My question is, how can you get "an invisible vertical "dotted line", running from the center of the barrel to the center of the scope? If you achieve this than you can just put a barrel mounted level on the rifle so that you could move to the next step. I had an aluminum tool that had two V sections that sat on the scope and on the barrel. It also had a small level. In a perfect world this would seem to be the solution but it never seemed to be accurate.</p><p>My smith works off the feed rails but that has nothing to do with aligning the centerline of the bore with the centerline of the optic.</p><p>I've set my scopes up using various technics and then tried to verify what I've done by checking with levels placed on the rails, pic base, scope caps, etc and they never agree.</p><p></p><p>I can easily tell when the reticle is perfectly plumb because I used a 6' precision level to mark the backboard at 400yds. Then I staple my white targets right down the line. But ... when the reticle is held perfectly plumb; is the rifle perfectly level? Probably not. I've gotta try a box test.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Varmint Hunter, post: 1973883, member: 313"] I totally agree with you on this. My question is, how can you get "an invisible vertical "dotted line", running from the center of the barrel to the center of the scope? If you achieve this than you can just put a barrel mounted level on the rifle so that you could move to the next step. I had an aluminum tool that had two V sections that sat on the scope and on the barrel. It also had a small level. In a perfect world this would seem to be the solution but it never seemed to be accurate. My smith works off the feed rails but that has nothing to do with aligning the centerline of the bore with the centerline of the optic. I've set my scopes up using various technics and then tried to verify what I've done by checking with levels placed on the rails, pic base, scope caps, etc and they never agree. I can easily tell when the reticle is perfectly plumb because I used a 6' precision level to mark the backboard at 400yds. Then I staple my white targets right down the line. But ... when the reticle is held perfectly plumb; is the rifle perfectly level? Probably not. I've gotta try a box test. [/QUOTE]
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