Scope tracking contraption thingy.

[ken226]

A friend mentioned that a scope tracking fixture would be handy.

I had some spare metal and parts from previous projects, so I put one together.



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[Reload10]

Looks good! How heavy is it? If it's on the lighter side might want to strap it down. Some turrets are stiff enough my light one would shift slightly before I added weight to it.

 

[ken226]

It's about 25 lbs, probably a little more. It's made of 2"x4" x 1/8" wall steel rectangular tube.

Sitting on a steel table, it takes 32 inch pounds of torque at the center of the picatinny rail to move the fixture. Sitting on concrete or wood should require significantly more. The feet of the adjusters are sharpened to 60° points.

 

[Reload10]

Cool, should be plenty. Everyone should check their optics on one of these devices.

 

[Ankeny]

That looks a hell of a lot better than the one I made. Mine is nothing more that a rail attached to a 2x4 that is screwed to a chunk of 3/4 plywood. A shim here and a shim there, then c-clamped to a shooting bench top. Damn crude, but it works.

 

[Deleted member 113831]

Great work!

 

[ken226]

Hopefully I'll be testing it soon..

 

[Mike Casselton]

I have an old Eaton Leonard three legged base that I made into a shooting rest.
Weighs around 30 lbs.
The plate that I attached has room to mount a picatinny rail and the feet also have the points sharpened into them.

I'll text you a pic here in a little while.