Thread: Reticle Leveling

Originally Posted by Tui4Me

For longer range the problem is dialing up a scope that is zeroed at 100 yards with a cant.

Effects of Rifle Cant at Long Range — Tubb Explains « Daily Bulletin

That article is about rig cant to ground...... not scope cant to rifle, the scope to rifle will remain paralell as long as the verticle wire of the scope is in line to gravity (plum to ground, verticle to gravity or how ever you like to explain it)...as soon as that is not the effects in that article come to play.

Re the 10mm get a 50mm stick/wire (roughly the center of bore to center of scope on most rifles) and sit it on a level verticly and move the top 10mm out of plum...that will be what the reticle is like with the rifle verticle to get it 10mm out to the side...as long as the verticle wire is plum to gravity when firing. (Hard to put in words what I mean)


With big flat stock buts and on benches with fixed rests the scope does have to be right to the stock as the rifle wont "lean" to correct the cant to ground...



Most scopes are 50 odd mm above the refle to the center line.... get a 50mm stick and move the top 10mm and se how far out the cant on the rifle to scope would be.

Oh and I must add if your lever is on the scope base like the one in the article your reticle wire will need to match it....