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What do you use to level the reticle?
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<blockquote data-quote="LDHunter" data-source="post: 1790851" data-attributes="member: 105"><p>It appears that quite a few posters don't seem to understand that making the vertical crosshair line up with the center of the bore is the critical part. Trusting the scope base or any other part of the action to be perfectly square is leaving a LOT to chance. I suspect that people that manufacture actions don't consider that to be a critical part of a perfect action.</p><p></p><p>That is why the plumb bob is the only perfect way that I've read here or ever heard of to ensure that you have it perfectly aligned. The flashlight method seems to be flawed and for that matter so does the plumb bob method if you don't have the parallax set right and in many cases you aren't going to be able to do that at 20 feet or maybe even 25 yards. In those cases I just go to 100 yards.</p><p></p><p>Remember the poster that said being even 1 degree off will cause a 5" horizontal windage error at 1,000 yards? If that is correct then trusting anything mechanical that relies on a square action is not going to be something I'd trust. This is a long range hunting forum and for most of use long range begins far enough out that that one degree can make a big difference.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LDHunter, post: 1790851, member: 105"] It appears that quite a few posters don't seem to understand that making the vertical crosshair line up with the center of the bore is the critical part. Trusting the scope base or any other part of the action to be perfectly square is leaving a LOT to chance. I suspect that people that manufacture actions don't consider that to be a critical part of a perfect action. That is why the plumb bob is the only perfect way that I've read here or ever heard of to ensure that you have it perfectly aligned. The flashlight method seems to be flawed and for that matter so does the plumb bob method if you don't have the parallax set right and in many cases you aren't going to be able to do that at 20 feet or maybe even 25 yards. In those cases I just go to 100 yards. Remember the poster that said being even 1 degree off will cause a 5" horizontal windage error at 1,000 yards? If that is correct then trusting anything mechanical that relies on a square action is not going to be something I'd trust. This is a long range hunting forum and for most of use long range begins far enough out that that one degree can make a big difference. [/QUOTE]
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