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<blockquote data-quote="aroshtr" data-source="post: 1016686" data-attributes="member: 9176"><p>I really believe in a hunting situation on uneven terrain, there would be very few people that could consistently keep a scope level enough for long range precise shooting. Sure at ranges less than 600 yards, and large animal targets, it is not a necessity. However why not have one there at your disposal just in case you want to shoot farther, or use it to make a more precise shot?</p><p></p><p>As far as the scope and bore being in perfect alignment as phorath is describing, I think it may be blown a little out of portion. His example of the scope at a 90* angle to the bore clearly shows the problems with alignment. However lets do a more realistic example. </p><p></p><p>If David Tubbs set a hunting rifle up with the gun at a 7* cant with a scope that was mounted 1.75" above the bore. The bore would only be offset from the scope about .21". So if the windage was zeroed in at 100 yards you would have a windage error of .21" at 200, .84" at 500, and 1.89" at 1000 yards. If you zero your windage at a further distance like 400 yards, your windage error would be: .105" at 200, 0.0" at 400, .105" again at 600, and only .315" at 1000 yards.</p><p></p><p>So in my opinion if you are willing to zero your windage at a further distance like 400 or 500 yards, and are not excessively canting the rifle, bore to scope alignment really is not a significant factor. Even if you zero in at 200 yards like most of us do, you have less than an inch of windage error at 1000 yards with this example.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aroshtr, post: 1016686, member: 9176"] I really believe in a hunting situation on uneven terrain, there would be very few people that could consistently keep a scope level enough for long range precise shooting. Sure at ranges less than 600 yards, and large animal targets, it is not a necessity. However why not have one there at your disposal just in case you want to shoot farther, or use it to make a more precise shot? As far as the scope and bore being in perfect alignment as phorath is describing, I think it may be blown a little out of portion. His example of the scope at a 90* angle to the bore clearly shows the problems with alignment. However lets do a more realistic example. If David Tubbs set a hunting rifle up with the gun at a 7* cant with a scope that was mounted 1.75" above the bore. The bore would only be offset from the scope about .21". So if the windage was zeroed in at 100 yards you would have a windage error of .21" at 200, .84" at 500, and 1.89" at 1000 yards. If you zero your windage at a further distance like 400 yards, your windage error would be: .105" at 200, 0.0" at 400, .105" again at 600, and only .315" at 1000 yards. So in my opinion if you are willing to zero your windage at a further distance like 400 or 500 yards, and are not excessively canting the rifle, bore to scope alignment really is not a significant factor. Even if you zero in at 200 yards like most of us do, you have less than an inch of windage error at 1000 yards with this example. [/QUOTE]
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