High scope and canting – the end of an ancient myth
Read this interesting blog on scope cant and what he found out.
http://www.szottesfold.co.uk/2012/03/high-scope-and-canting-end-of-ancient.html
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Cool article! Amazing what a bit of “triggernometry” can do.
Lurker, consider that the POI and scope line of sight intersect at the target. Because of this, cant error produces the same impact circle regardless of scope height.
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Two intersecting lines get further apart as distance increases.
As the rifle is canted further the barrel is less angled up. Oops.
If you are never going to shoot any further distance you may get away with zeroing with bad cant but you will always have to compensate more both horizontal and vertical as distance increases.
Very interesting read Wok. It makes sense. Even if you shoot canted as long as you hold the gun the same way every time your good to go.
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I get the point for shooting at one fixed distance with the scope zeroed for that distance but, some days the 50 yard range is more heavily in ise so I setup on the 100 yard range. i don’t want to screw up both turrets so I hold the rifle verticle and just use hold over. If I had been canted 45° left but zeroed at 50 yards which retical should I use for holdover at 100 yards? No doubt that the author is correct if only one distance is considered or if the rifle is re-zeroed when the range changes a bit.