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You know, this has bothered me for a long time.
I will mount a scope on a new rifle, using bubble levels, little doodad alignment devices and everything I can think of, but there is this little nagging feeling that I am still not doing it correctly. I guess what I want is to have the absolutel rock steady confidence that if I sight in my scope at 100 yards, clicking the elevation knob for a marker at 300 yards will NOT cause the point on impact to drift even a hair horizontally.
But no, I don't feel that way at all. Too much room for error when I level the receiver of the gun with the scope mount installed. Then I bubble level the scope, trying not to move anything while I tighten everything down. So is it perfect? Heck, I doubt it. How precise is a bubble level anyway?
So how do the experts do it? How do you precisely mount a scope so that there is NO lateral movement at all of the bullet impact when you adjust the elevation setting on the scope?
I will mount a scope on a new rifle, using bubble levels, little doodad alignment devices and everything I can think of, but there is this little nagging feeling that I am still not doing it correctly. I guess what I want is to have the absolutel rock steady confidence that if I sight in my scope at 100 yards, clicking the elevation knob for a marker at 300 yards will NOT cause the point on impact to drift even a hair horizontally.
But no, I don't feel that way at all. Too much room for error when I level the receiver of the gun with the scope mount installed. Then I bubble level the scope, trying not to move anything while I tighten everything down. So is it perfect? Heck, I doubt it. How precise is a bubble level anyway?
So how do the experts do it? How do you precisely mount a scope so that there is NO lateral movement at all of the bullet impact when you adjust the elevation setting on the scope?