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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    Re: Trust the level or the eye? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vman</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kentactic</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div...
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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    Re: Trust the level or the eye? wont just cranking the elevation and shooting be alot less hassle i dont have any place to do a solid test like this other then at the range so i might aswell just shoot. im going tomorrow morning so im just going to Confirm zero, shoot at 100 yards, dial up 4...
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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    Re: Trust the level or the eye? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You line it up once. Then you dial in elevation and observe whether the reticle stays (a) aligned with and (b) overlaying the plumb bob. If something is out of whack -...
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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    Re: Trust the level or the eye? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i think that verifying that it correctly tracks the vertical takes care of this - as you won't be adding windage with vertical changes when the reticle faithfully...
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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    Re: Trust the level or the eye? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: notquiteright</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I must have missed something, why does everyone think a newly mounted scope being 1 inch off to the right means something is canted? IF...
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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    Re: Trust the level or the eye? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mouse07410</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'd say - your reticle is installed canted. Set a plumb bob somewhere where you can focus the scope - say 30m or so, level your scope with...
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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    Re: Trust the level or the eye? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Evolution 9</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yes, that proves the base level is level. Now do you still have a problem above that (scope itself being level)? For what it's worth, I'm...
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    Advanced Marksmanship Spotting your own shots BEYOND 500 yards

    Re: Spotting your own shots BEYOND 500 yards shoot tracers?...lol
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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    Re: Trust the level or the eye? ok guys... heres what i did...tell me if i gained anything.. i took the base level and leveled the rifle off of what the level said was level... i then reveresed it... flipped it to the other side... and it still said it was level... it would have to be true...
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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    Re: Trust the level or the eye? <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Graham</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Short of ELR work you really don't need a level. </div></div> well graham thats what i thought aswell perhaps your better then i am at eyeballing...
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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    Re: Trust the level or the eye? 10-4 guys ill confirm my level is indeed level.. although i heard that these rail levels only prove to actually be level when mounted to the rail... and its not a USO.. just some cheapy. (might be my problem)
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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    Re: Trust the level or the eye? yeah its new to me... i thought i was able to level my rifle in the feild by eyeball and was horribly wrong. at 100 yards i was hitting 1 inch right in one terrain setting.. so i broke down and accepted the fact that i might need a level on my rifle.
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    Rifle Scopes Trust the level or the eye?

    ive got a level that attaches to the picatinny rail and ive got a level on top of the scopes turret. if it matters the scope an SWFA 10X42HD. when i level the scope with the bubbles the reticle looks way canted. and when i level it by what my eyes think is level basing it off the rail level the...
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    Fieldcraft What Makes a Sniper

    Re: What Makes a Sniper <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YN*Dotte</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dangedan87</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Well, what makes a sniper in the...
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    Precision shooting schools in California.

    Re: Precision shooting schools in California. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Socalsheepdog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If your in the SoCal area there are a couple of options that I know of. 1. California Precision Rifle Club...
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    Rifle Scopes Importance of scope height to barrel...

    Re: Importance of scope height to barrel... <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Old man now</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A month or so ago I saw where Ty at Barnes posted on thier web site that a higher scope seems to flatten trajtory over a lower...
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    getting the boot

    Re: getting the boot be an asshole like the guy above me.
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    Suppressors G34 Question...

    Re: G34 Question... <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: iplumb</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thanks for the answers so far. No plans for comps - just a fun, accurate range gun that i am going to shoot the crap out of. </div></div> well then your...
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    Suppressors Drawing from different types of holsters

    Re: Drawing from different types of holsters well the easiest holster to draw from is a kind of an easy answer if thats how simple the question is. so without trying to read into the question the easiest, fastest drawing holster would be a plastic of some kind with only friction retention...
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    Bipod height/length opinion

    Re: Bipod height/length opinion depends what its for.. i started with a 6-9'' and went to the 9-13'' because when shooting prone at a range i go to the furthest targets were higher up on the mountain so i couldnt get the angle i needed with the 6-9'' but then i went right back to the 6-9''...
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