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Old 02-03-2019, 12:48 PM
Salavee Salavee is offline
 
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Originally Posted by traderal View Post
My biggest beef is the disconnect with the whole gun industry on making a system that allows an almost perfect alignment of the scope over the bore. The weaver rings and bases, Z-rings, even the Leopold bases and rings once mounted are canted off center. Tighten the screws on the scope and the torque rotates the scope crosshairs out of alignment. I call it all garbage. At least once in my life I had a bench rest rifle that had the mounts and receiver machined from one block of metal. That was a nice quick and easy setup.
I find that a real pain as well. I found I have to give the torque some "lead" to get it right. Usually takes more than one attempt to get the proper alignment, even with the best of them. Don't know what the fix is. Maybe Richard Near.
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