got some scrap steel an old Caldwell rest base and a generic picitinny rail and decided to make a sturdy scope leveler. I know I know its over kill. lol. I would guess that it weighs around 60lbs or so. bottom portion of steel is 1" thick and the top is 1 1/2" thick. I leveled it all up yesterday morning on my garage floor and shot a plumb bob about 25yds with all three of my nightforce scopes. once plate/picitinny was leveled I was able to mount and torque all three scopes without any movement.
today I went to the range and clamped a piece of 2"x 6 foot pine trim molding at the 100yd target marked with blue masking tape at the top and exactly 60" from that with some more blue tape. I then measured all the way back to the shooting benches exactly 300ft to the center of my turret while scope was clamped into this jig. I then adjusted everything level and put my crosshairs on the top piece of masking tape. cranked the first nxs 3.5-15x50 three times in a row and it took 166 click's @ 100yd to get from the top tape mark to the lower tape mark 60moa lower . so for every .1 mil I adjust the scope the clicks are equivalent to .1004 or damn near dead nuts. my second 3.5-15x50 nxs was exactly the same so I was pretty happy at this point. last up was my ATACR MIL-R. it took 174 clicks to do the same so every .1mil click is worth .0957. which don't sound like much, but explains why I am 4 clicks low at 1200yds about 16" at that distance. this was a great day and great learnig curve on why everyone needs to check and verify all equipment.
today I went to the range and clamped a piece of 2"x 6 foot pine trim molding at the 100yd target marked with blue masking tape at the top and exactly 60" from that with some more blue tape. I then measured all the way back to the shooting benches exactly 300ft to the center of my turret while scope was clamped into this jig. I then adjusted everything level and put my crosshairs on the top piece of masking tape. cranked the first nxs 3.5-15x50 three times in a row and it took 166 click's @ 100yd to get from the top tape mark to the lower tape mark 60moa lower . so for every .1 mil I adjust the scope the clicks are equivalent to .1004 or damn near dead nuts. my second 3.5-15x50 nxs was exactly the same so I was pretty happy at this point. last up was my ATACR MIL-R. it took 174 clicks to do the same so every .1mil click is worth .0957. which don't sound like much, but explains why I am 4 clicks low at 1200yds about 16" at that distance. this was a great day and great learnig curve on why everyone needs to check and verify all equipment.
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