Thread: Reticle Leveling

Originally Posted by Norway

Because the cant is in the reticle/rifle relation and not the reticle/earth relation.

Your vestibular sense will take care of the cant in the reticle earth relation. If you are unable to stay within 1 degree a doctor should evaluate your physical condition as it can be a symptome of several illnesses minor and major.

you wouldn't be the first person to surgest i get my head checked.
I spent a bit of time on the cant issue over the last year mostly because the information I was reading was conflicting,the error induced by canting was never in question but the humans ability to overcome it was.Plenty of debate but no real testing just " i shot this and it wasnt a problem " or I put a level on and now Im shooting much better"sort of stuff.
What i did find was that some(not all) of those who believed they could judge cant where shooting far more on flat ground at man made targets which can give a point of reference,one guy adament that cant was a non issue had a power pole right beside his target .Iv seen some with a first hit being left or right and slightly low and call it a poor wind read where it may have been a cant error.In the end I decided to treat it as an individual issue,Do I need a level? So I set up a round target like a clock with minutes marked on it then mounted it so I could spin it.Placing it on the side of a sloping face making sure I had no reference ie a powerpole or building in the background etc i would spin it ,walk away then set up as if to take a shot.With the cross on the center I could read the miutes the verticle bar of the reticle was disecting, then it was a simple matter of walking back to the target and checkng the Actuall verticle with a plumb bob to determin how much if any cant error I was inducing.I tried a few different angles slopes etc from different directions.I now have a little level properly set up and clamped to my scope for anything over the 500 yd mark.When i set up its the last thing I look at,when I do i can be ok but othertimes I will have to correct, sometimes Im that far out I have to reset completley as theres not enought swivel in the bipod. I have no idea how other people can or can't cope with this but Iv now got a pretty good handle on my own ability or lack of.