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Where does Rifle cant begin to matter?
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<blockquote data-quote="bearcat2" data-source="post: 2028570" data-attributes="member: 18832"><p>I would like to point out one thing (which was mentioned in passing by at least one commenter). The important thing is NOT wether you cant your rifle, its wether your RETICLE is plumb or not. I have a friend who cants his rifle quite a bit, every gun of his I pick up (he is a bit of a horsetrader and always has a new gun I'm checking out) when I throw it to my shoulder the crosshairs are noticeably angled, we hold our rifles at LEAST 10 degrees different cant, but he plumbs his reticle to his natural hold when he mounts each scope, as do I. He shoots PRS matches and does pretty well.</p><p></p><p>You can hold your rifle however, but you MUST hold your reticle level. A level can help with this, personally I prefer a scope mounted one, if you have shot for years like most of us here you have ingrained habits of how you hold your rifle. Rather than try and break those to hold your rifle perfectly plumb, it is a lot easier to shoulder your rifle naturally and plumb the reticles in your scope by turning the scope in the scope rings before tightening down the rings. Then a scope mounted level will insure you hold the same cant to the rifle every time.</p><p></p><p>If you are out on a hunt and your buddy drops his rifle, you can hand him yours and it may not feel totally natural, but he can look at the level and hold it plumb to shoot accurately. If you shoot a lot in the terrain you are hunting, most of us won't need a level on a gun we have practiced with to shoot 600 yards, the gun will shoulder to pretty much the same place and cant every time. It is when you are really stretching it out there, OR you are using a gun you are unfamiliar with, or was sighted in and/or scope mounted for someone else where you will run into problems and a level will come in really handy.</p><p></p><p>P.S. I don't have one on many of my rifles, but I've been thinking of putting one on my main hunting long range rifle, I notice my consistency dropping off out past 800, and it would really be good to put one on my wife's rifle as she didn't grow up shooting like most of us and is relatively new at this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bearcat2, post: 2028570, member: 18832"] I would like to point out one thing (which was mentioned in passing by at least one commenter). The important thing is NOT wether you cant your rifle, its wether your RETICLE is plumb or not. I have a friend who cants his rifle quite a bit, every gun of his I pick up (he is a bit of a horsetrader and always has a new gun I'm checking out) when I throw it to my shoulder the crosshairs are noticeably angled, we hold our rifles at LEAST 10 degrees different cant, but he plumbs his reticle to his natural hold when he mounts each scope, as do I. He shoots PRS matches and does pretty well. You can hold your rifle however, but you MUST hold your reticle level. A level can help with this, personally I prefer a scope mounted one, if you have shot for years like most of us here you have ingrained habits of how you hold your rifle. Rather than try and break those to hold your rifle perfectly plumb, it is a lot easier to shoulder your rifle naturally and plumb the reticles in your scope by turning the scope in the scope rings before tightening down the rings. Then a scope mounted level will insure you hold the same cant to the rifle every time. If you are out on a hunt and your buddy drops his rifle, you can hand him yours and it may not feel totally natural, but he can look at the level and hold it plumb to shoot accurately. If you shoot a lot in the terrain you are hunting, most of us won't need a level on a gun we have practiced with to shoot 600 yards, the gun will shoulder to pretty much the same place and cant every time. It is when you are really stretching it out there, OR you are using a gun you are unfamiliar with, or was sighted in and/or scope mounted for someone else where you will run into problems and a level will come in really handy. P.S. I don't have one on many of my rifles, but I've been thinking of putting one on my main hunting long range rifle, I notice my consistency dropping off out past 800, and it would really be good to put one on my wife's rifle as she didn't grow up shooting like most of us and is relatively new at this. [/QUOTE]
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