Do you use an adjustable cheekpiece on your rifle?

[1Hunter]

Yes indeed, the market place is full of items aid the sportsman.

 

[submoa]

my latest rifle came with one and its set at the lowest it can go dont need it or really wont it but if i take it off it will leave ugly holes in the stock :-{ not cool.

 

[1Hunter]

my latest rifle came with one and its set at the lowest it can go dont need it or really wont it but if i take it off it will leave ugly holes in the stock :-{ not cool.

Sounds like you got a Savage Rifle (Long distance).

What you use your rifle for, will make the cheek rest either useful
or useless.

Long distance shooting requiring a 30 moa or better height on your
scope base, will soon prove out the advantages of an adjustable cheek piece.

If your shooting is 300 yards and under and have regular scope base and
mount, you probable don't need the cheek rest. The holes in the stock can
be plugged so as not to detract from the good looks of the rifle,
if carefully and artistically done.

Practice, Practice and Practice.

 

[submoa]

Sounds like you got a Savage Rifle (Long distance).

What you use your rifle for, will make the cheek rest either useful
or useless.

Long distance shooting requiring a 30 moa or better height on your
scope base, will soon prove out the advantages of an adjustable cheek piece.

If your shooting is 300 yards and under and have regular scope base and
mount, you probable don't need the cheek rest. The holes in the stock can
be plugged so as not to detract from the good looks of the rifle,
if carefully and artistically done.

Practice, Practice and Practice.

Just what do you consider long range I can shoot 1K yards and not top out and I don't have a plus moa base. I'm sure its better to have one.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Sounds like you got a Savage Rifle (Long distance).

What you use your rifle for, will make the cheek rest either useful
or useless.

Long distance shooting requiring a 30 moa or better height on your
scope base, will soon prove out the advantages of an adjustable cheek piece.

If your shooting is 300 yards and under and have regular scope base and
mount, you probable don't need the cheek rest. The holes in the stock can
be plugged so as not to detract from the good looks of the rifle,
if carefully and artistically done.

Practice, Practice and Practice.

I have one and while I'm not artistically inclined, IMO, the rifle is certainly not good looking, in fact, it looks 'Industrial'.....

Just what do you consider long range I can shoot 1K yards and not top out and I don't have a plus moa base. I'm sure its better to have one.

The cant base is predicated in the amount of elevation adjustment your scope has. Most scopes benefit from a cant base to artificially increase the windage adjustment, but some don't. Obviously, your don't but then you are only shooting 1000 yards......

 

[submoa]

Sidecar your right there not the best looking guns but they do the job great ;-)

 

[apache sniper]

Is your stock wood or plastic? I can tell you how to fix either one. I also shoot 1k + and I use a 20MOA base of my own design that is adjustable for windage. I am sure glad I have an adjustable for windage. Long story short I bought a superb .338 win mag ,douglas med heavy bbl timney trigger the whole 9 yds the only problem was when they drilled the scope bases they were 20 min off!!!! I looked for almost a year for a adjustable weaver mount, said to hell with it and designed and built my own. If you want one holler I will build a custom one for you.

 

[submoa]

its plastic ;-{ but it does have a full length bedding block ;-}

 

[1Hunter]

I have one and while I'm not artistically inclined, IMO, the rifle is certainly not good looking, in fact, it looks 'Industrial'.....



The cant base is predicated in the amount of elevation adjustment your scope has. Most scopes benefit from a cant base to artificially increase the windage adjustment, but some don't. Obviously, your don't but then you are only shooting 1000 yards......

Interesting. This cant base, is it to offset barrel twist? The reason I'm asking
is that the wind blows from a lot of directions and some times blows one way at the muzzel and half way down range another, while the target maybe something else.
I understand the base being sloped from back to front so scope can acquire more
distant targets, like 1300 yards.

 

[submoa]

i think he meant elevation not windage

 

[1Hunter]

i think he meant elevation not windage

I thought so, but I wouldn't want to miss out on some thing different.
Sure sounded a little tricky.

 

[submoa]

now apache sniper said he made his own windage ajustable plus mount.

that could be some think there for fixing misdrilled mount holes like he had.

 

[apache sniper]

YES !!!! WINDAGE ADJUSTABE!!! It took a bit of head scratching and a few sheets of ruined prints but I finally got it!!

 

[1Hunter]

Ingenuity and perseverance are what made this country great.
Congratulations.