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Is the March FX 4.5-28x52 my new ZCO?

Sako man
Long range update. I took the Tikka with the March 4.5-28 out yesterday. I think more tracking tests need to be done when I have better load data. I did have a dialing discrepency however I believe it was a data and shooting angle issue rather than tracking. Time for me to pick up a cosign indicator as the shoot involved shooting up and down at angle.

What I can say for sure is that the glass is stellar, really world class. I could clearly see very defined hits, splashes, where the steel was blackened from impacts very clearly. I would venture to say that next to the SnB 6-36 that was out there yesterday the March had the best glass, the SnB 6-36 edged it out but only slightly.
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Leveling a scope is dumb

gigamortis
ma smith said:
reticle to level to gravity = rifle is level.

the only caveat is if your reticle isn't square to your erector.

then you're screwed...:ROFLMAO:
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I've seen a few scopes where the reticle wasn't plumb and square with the turret knobs or any other flat reference surface on the scope body. In each instance, I ran tall target test which verified the erector and crosshairs were plump and square to each other. The erector was not square to the scope body.

In instances like that, you just adjust your scope level to be true to your crosshair plumb/level. Forget about referencing anything to the scope body or turret caps.
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Leveling a scope is dumb

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kenny1773 said:
Why do people make this so hard?

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Because the scope cap isn’t 90 degrees to the reticle, and because we spend a lot of time and money trying to be accurate out to far distances.
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6cm and the bullet unseating

Watch_this71
OREGUN said:
The bullet is jammed into the lands when you close the bolt. Opening the bolt pulls the bullet. Usually factory ammo has enough “neck tension” that this doesn’t happen. Also, usually factory ammo is seated short enough that the bullet is nowhere near the lands. It’s a lawyer’s nightmare to have a customer call with a complaint that the bullets are jammed into a factory barrel so they tend to seat them on the short end of the scale. In your case, I’m guessing the prefit has a really short throat or is headspaced incorrectly such that the bullet, even at short factory seated length, is much farther forward in the chamber than is normal. It is possible, but unlikely in my opinion, that a lot of carbon build up in the throat could be causing this. Are there any other signs of irregularity? Pressure, hard bolt close, hard open, pierced primers, etc?
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I had a couple times where it was hard to close the bolt, yes. As far as pierced primers, no.
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Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)

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Lawless said:
After Hugo I went to South Carolina with a group to offer aid. It was truly a devastating storm there.
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I got volunteered to repair distribution powerlines in my state of North Carolina that were damaged by Hugo. We worked the rural areas near Albemarle. I specifically remember the name of one community, Frog Pond. :)

Keith
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