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Effect of Canting the Rifle on Accuracy |
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Irish Blonde 
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 Posted: January 17 2025 at 6:22am |
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Big thing for iron sights! For scoped rifles...Takes a lot to get someone to understand that the rifle doesn't have to be level, just the scope horizontal to the horizon and level for each shot. My natural shouldering/body position induces a bit of cant, but the crosshairs are perfectly level.
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Strangely Brown
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 6:33am |
The mantlet on Century range at Bisley is far from straight in some places and I have to rely on a bubble which makes the scope cross hairs look crooked. It did occur to me and I haven't had a chance to experiment yet; shooting at a tin hat target with a standard Enfield foresight post would I believe make you correct the majority of cant by instinct?? Thoughts?
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Irish Blonde
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 6:51am |
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That's what happens with the cross hairs being leveled to the gun. If a gun has an adjustable buttpad for cant, then all good. If not, then that is why I like crosshairs level, gun canted.
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britrifles
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Posted: January 17 2025 at 1:00pm |
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Mick, I suspect you’re right. With the standard No. 4 foresight protector, there is a natural tendency to hold the rifle vertical in relationship to the target frame. Now, if the frame is not level, then the rifle won’t be either. But I’d bet the Bisley target frames are level, even though the line of targets may be sloped.
With a scoped rifle, the natural tendency is to hold the horizontal reticule line parallel to the horizon, or some other reference. As far as I know, the target line at Talladega is level, so I align the horizontal graticule on the No. 32 scope with the line of target frames. But, shooting with a front and rear aperture sight, there is not much of a line on the sights to hold a horizontal reference to. Just those little strips of metal in the foresight insert. What’s absolutely critical, I believe, is holding a constant angle of cant thru an entire string at long range (800 yards and up). Otherwise, you will see wide lateral spreads that you may think are due to poor wind calls. |
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