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How’s the gun market?

I have gotten a lot of trade offers but I don’t really need anything else.

I’m not desperate, don’t need the cash. Just don’t like safe queens. But I’ll hold onto them till we get some knuckle head in office trying to ban them. Maybe they’ll be worth something at that point. However, I do agree that this is definitely the time to buy since it’s a huge buyers market!

Optical zero

Optically aligned with the plane of the bore? I haven't heard that one before, do you mean bore axis? Or, are you trying to describe optical center vs mechanical center? I don't know.

Mechanical and optical center have nothing to do with the bore, bore sighting, or a relationship with the bore axis, either can be found independent of the optic being mounted. Mechanical center is as discussed, it's the point at which the elevation and windage adjustments are centered within their respective travel limits. 100 MOA total elevation and windage adjustment would give a mechanical center/zero of 50/50 and 50/50. Optical center is a little different and it's the point where the reticle's center will appear to stay stationary when the scope is rotated about its axis. This may not equal mechanical center, it could be that in relation to mechanical center, the optical center of an optic is more like 52/48 and 53/47.

Most optics companies ship scopes optically centered because it's fast and easy to do and is relatively close enough to mechanical center for a user to get boresighted and zeroed without too much effort.

If your eyes aren't as good as they used to be, get the scope back to a center, dial down about six mils/20 MOA from there, and start out at close range to get on paper and push out from there.
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