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The Basics, Starting Out
Setting up a scope square?
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<blockquote data-quote="Varmint Hunter" data-source="post: 1407556" data-attributes="member: 313"><p>The rifle must be level before you can do much else but how is this accomplished? Some guys put a level on the scope base, some on the scope cap, some across the raceway and there are several other methods that I've heard. of</p><p>It seems to me that a leveled rifle <strong>must</strong> have the centerline of the scope directly over the centerline of the barrel. I have used the Brownells tool which is designed to do this. At the same time I put a level across the raceway for confirmation and found that they weren't even close. Put another level across the pic base and you just might find that it's out too.</p><p>It's hard to determine when the rifle is truly level even when using the tools designed to achieve a level rifle. Rotating a scope to get the reticle level is rather easy if you could only assure the the rifle was in exactly the correct position before you try.</p><p></p><p>BTW - Using the stock to determine level as indicated in my 2006 post proved to be a terrible idea. More modern tools proved that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Varmint Hunter, post: 1407556, member: 313"] The rifle must be level before you can do much else but how is this accomplished? Some guys put a level on the scope base, some on the scope cap, some across the raceway and there are several other methods that I've heard. of It seems to me that a leveled rifle [B]must[/B] have the centerline of the scope directly over the centerline of the barrel. I have used the Brownells tool which is designed to do this. At the same time I put a level across the raceway for confirmation and found that they weren't even close. Put another level across the pic base and you just might find that it's out too. It's hard to determine when the rifle is truly level even when using the tools designed to achieve a level rifle. Rotating a scope to get the reticle level is rather easy if you could only assure the the rifle was in exactly the correct position before you try. BTW - Using the stock to determine level as indicated in my 2006 post proved to be a terrible idea. More modern tools proved that. [/QUOTE]
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