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Tapered moa bases?
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<blockquote data-quote="Senderofan" data-source="post: 1045669" data-attributes="member: 13831"><p>Yeah....You are getting messed up with the term "Zeroing." Like you described....if your scope has 80 moa total internal elevation travel......in a perfect level setting....you'd have 40 moa available to dial up and 40 to dial down. So, in that perfect world.....if you install a 20 moa base......you'd hypothetically have 60 moa available to raise your cross hair and have 20 below your 100 yard zero. The issue that is tripping you up.......you will very rarely...if ever go more than a couple moa below your 100 yard zero. But....if you want to shoot out to 1000, 1200 even 1500 yards....you are going to need extra moa. Depending on what round you're using.....you're scope would not have enough elevation ( Come ups ) to get you to the really long distances. That's the beauty of canted bases.....it gives you a bunch more elevation. You really don't want to have to run your scopes at either extreme......maxed out on the top or minimum elevation.....compressing the springs too much.</p><p></p><p>When you "Zero".....the internal settings remain at a certain point and the turrets are loosened and set to ( Zero ) on the knob. You still have that extra elevation within the scope......because you dialed below that 40 / 40 theoretical middle. You might be at 20-25 from the bottom leaving you 75-80 moa available to dial up to.</p><p></p><p>Wayne</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Senderofan, post: 1045669, member: 13831"] Yeah....You are getting messed up with the term "Zeroing." Like you described....if your scope has 80 moa total internal elevation travel......in a perfect level setting....you'd have 40 moa available to dial up and 40 to dial down. So, in that perfect world.....if you install a 20 moa base......you'd hypothetically have 60 moa available to raise your cross hair and have 20 below your 100 yard zero. The issue that is tripping you up.......you will very rarely...if ever go more than a couple moa below your 100 yard zero. But....if you want to shoot out to 1000, 1200 even 1500 yards....you are going to need extra moa. Depending on what round you're using.....you're scope would not have enough elevation ( Come ups ) to get you to the really long distances. That's the beauty of canted bases.....it gives you a bunch more elevation. You really don't want to have to run your scopes at either extreme......maxed out on the top or minimum elevation.....compressing the springs too much. When you "Zero".....the internal settings remain at a certain point and the turrets are loosened and set to ( Zero ) on the knob. You still have that extra elevation within the scope......because you dialed below that 40 / 40 theoretical middle. You might be at 20-25 from the bottom leaving you 75-80 moa available to dial up to. Wayne [/QUOTE]
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