stagpanther
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OK--I know I'm out of my league posting this thread here--but I figure this is where the most experience with this kind of thing would be--so please indulge me--thank you.
I have quite a few rifles that I hope to one day use in a competition--once I'm up to it and have proper technique down. Many of my rifles I've been shooting for years with decent results though I haven't been getting out to any real meaningful distances. I want to change that--and have started off by buying Brian Litz's complete collection of books and DVD's and am presently absorbing that info.
I took four of my rifles (6mm Creedmoor, 6.5 Creedmoor, 300 win mag and 338 Lapua) and decided to true the scopes using the plumb line method. may not have used the right methodology--but using my dining room table I first leveled each rifle by putting a level on the rail. I have a plumb line hanging from a tree about 50 yds out in my front yard, getting up early at 5:00 am when things are still calm I sight each scope so the vertical line of the reticle matches the plumb line. I also added a bubble level to both the rail and the scope and leveled the bubble the scope while it was aligned to the plumb line.
So here's my problem: in every case on all rifles the reticles now cant strongly to the left (when leveling in the field using the bubble levels); I'm guessing by at least 5 degrees. I've been out shooting all the rifles, and in every case both my accuracy and precision have become worse--I'm going crazy trying to figure out the proper hold before firing. I knowBryan recommends the tall target test to check tracking and true of scope--but I seriously doubt I can learn to shoot well with the reticle canted to the side that much.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
I have quite a few rifles that I hope to one day use in a competition--once I'm up to it and have proper technique down. Many of my rifles I've been shooting for years with decent results though I haven't been getting out to any real meaningful distances. I want to change that--and have started off by buying Brian Litz's complete collection of books and DVD's and am presently absorbing that info.
I took four of my rifles (6mm Creedmoor, 6.5 Creedmoor, 300 win mag and 338 Lapua) and decided to true the scopes using the plumb line method. may not have used the right methodology--but using my dining room table I first leveled each rifle by putting a level on the rail. I have a plumb line hanging from a tree about 50 yds out in my front yard, getting up early at 5:00 am when things are still calm I sight each scope so the vertical line of the reticle matches the plumb line. I also added a bubble level to both the rail and the scope and leveled the bubble the scope while it was aligned to the plumb line.
So here's my problem: in every case on all rifles the reticles now cant strongly to the left (when leveling in the field using the bubble levels); I'm guessing by at least 5 degrees. I've been out shooting all the rifles, and in every case both my accuracy and precision have become worse--I'm going crazy trying to figure out the proper hold before firing. I knowBryan recommends the tall target test to check tracking and true of scope--but I seriously doubt I can learn to shoot well with the reticle canted to the side that much.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.