Leveling Your Rifle - Did I Get it Right?

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I’ve been working on this video for months now, but since I’m pretty new to shooting, I’d like your take on it. Most of these ideas are completely my own, so there’s a good chance that I screwed something up. What do you think? Specifically:

  1. I identified exactly 2 ways that not leveling your rifle can impact accuracy. Did I get them right?
  2. Am I right that when you rotate your rifle to the right around the bore that the reticle will actually move to the left of the target? That was surprising!
  3. Did I get my math right?
  4. Any idea why 1 MOA at 300 yards is exactly pi? That’s so weird!

Any other ideas on the video? Thanks!

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Welcome. Ill be checking out your video its come across my feed a couple times.

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Cool video. You clearly put a lot of good effort into it. Great info. More people should have levels on their rifles for sure. Big help when shooting at long range.

I wonder about the footage of shooting the deer target at 400 yards. Missing by that much at 400 is probably not due to cant in my experience. The horizontal error appears to be around 7-9” so I might point to something else as the primary cause, since it would require an EXTREME cant to do that at 400. Also, the elevation must have been off quite severely because cant would normally cause an impact to go low and these shots were 7-10” high.

Good point about group size if you don’t get in a consistent position each time. I usually see people only can’t the rifle one direction. Most commonly, I see right handed shooters canting the top of the rifle to the right because it makes the reticle LOOK straight for them but they forget their head is flopped over to the side to see the scope.

Appreciate the video. Love learning from smart people.

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Hi Jim,

You’re definitely right about the discrepancy at 400 yards. My level was mounted wrong but that didn’t account for the full 10" up and to the right. (Didn’t make that as clear as I could have in the video.)

Good point also about tendency for shooters to cant to one side more than the other. I’ve seen that with my own shooting. Another thing that I didn’t mention in the video is that when I’m shooting from a slope, my guess for what’s level can be way off. Might be more that 5°.

Any other thoughts?

I appreciate the input, Jim!

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Yeah, I’ve seen that on slopes as well. It can be really hard to tell what’s level on a mountainside.

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I have this in my wishlist and will most likely have by end of year. I don’t need a shot timer. Like opinions on this…