@Maca49, you need professional help ... you're not OCD enough :cool:
Up your intensity fella !! :thumbsup:
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@Maca49, you need professional help ... you're not OCD enough :cool:
Up your intensity fella !! :thumbsup:
You realise, with a bit of age, there are more important things in life than being a perfectionist! I aim, I squeeze, not pull!!thee trigger, and if it goes WAP, and falls over or if a little black hole appears in the centre of the the target, or the gong gongs IM aas happy as shit. Its really easy
Happy as a pig chocker up a sow in a stye full of mud huh Maca?
I dont make a pig of myself anymore Rushy:x_x: that comes with age as well!!
Having somebody set it up is something I snorted at - but this time I've seen the benefits of it being done right on. I had the correct bore attachment and a collimator used, i thought "oh yeah but". But-nothing! My cold clean shot hit low and left 3 clicks - it then settled right on. I've never seen that before
The fact is most people don't have the space or equipment to do it 'your' way. Shooting the group and adjusting then re shooting a group may not be 100% correct but it gets you damn close and it's easy to do. Litz does it on his DVD and it seemed to work just fine out to 800m I think that he used that rifle to?
Isolating the one variable you're interested in.... that is good test methodology. If just the accuracy of the scope then I'd be checking in this way straight after purchase looking for ideally +/- one click accuracy and part-click backlash in a top-end product, right through the range, both axes. If the error is more, then that is the time to consider returning it. If you can live with it, document it and factor it into the dropchart. That said the last dial-up scope I did this with had a 30% error in the elevation turret so pretty much any method would have pick it up!
On test distance it comes down to ability to focus the scope sufficiently well to see the calibrated markings on the target and eliminate the possibility of any parallax error. For these reasons if the scope is fixed- focus the backyard is probably not going to work.
....remove the scope from the rifle, clamp it in a way that it will not be able to move at all...
doesn't take that much ingenuity to find a way to achieve this surely, or leave it in place and clamp the rifle ?
Drill and tap a block of steel and mount a rail to it. should be heavy enough to not move when clicking the turrets
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A piece of 150x50 with ply screwed on each side, half-circles of the appropriate diameter for the tube to rest in, sash clamped back to a bench in this case. It can be clamped to whatever is handy at the local sports field or the range for checking things at 100m and beyond. Elastic is used to tension the scope down into the recesses and also prevent it from getting accidentally knocked onto the ground. Can rotate 90 to check windage on the same scale as elevation (see below).
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This is the other end of the arrangement. The tripod gives flexibility for setting up at any distance. The bar in this case is marked up at 100mm spacings for confirming mrad at 100m.
Had a good day out today - A solid first round hit to a plate at 780m then these two on a 9" plate at 1010m. Feeling brave i tried the data off the app out to the 1200m gong and it only took 3 (for me that was 16.8 mils. Thanks again fellas - days like this improve the shooting immeasurably :thumbsup:
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You were shooting like a man possessed. A first round hit at a kilometre followed up by another to prove it wasn't a fluke is legend mate. But I need to burst your bubble as the gong was ten inches not nine. Still under a minute of angle though. Well done.
HAHA bubble half burst - I'll meet you half way. 9.5" (it was a cold day and your targets had shrunk!!)
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Good shootin :thumbsup: