Brians356
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I think it's all about finding your "natural point of aim" and being comfortable in the process. Or, I am completely off in the weeds somewhere. Lol.I was surprised to notice some shooters in Paris with a lot of cant evident in their hold. Of course cant does not affect score if you are consistent shot-to-shot. This photo is from the 2020 Summer Olympics, but is representative of what I am watching on TV as I write this.
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It's an indoor match, so ...Cant doesn’t matter if you are holding (and not dialing) for wind.
Dave
Agree 100%, as long as the cant hold is very consistent. But the effect of cant is not linear, so as cant increases, the consistency becomes more critical and difficult to achieve.If you are shooting at only one distance and not adjusting for wind or elevation, it w(sh)ould not matter.
You're right, it was outdoors! There was no sun out, so it appeared on TV to be indoors. Thanks for the clarification.50 meter smallbore is shot outdoors. Most shooters, if not all at this level, use rear sights that can rotate to get the sight back to level and compensate for the cant.
Cant also affects vertical, and 90 degrees of cant affects vertical drastically. What is the "sight height above bore" value if (in your example) the front sight's height above bore is now zero?If you canted the rifle 90 degrees clockwise and had to move your POI to the left 2 scoring rings, would you get there by turning the windage knob? No. If you rotated the rear sight counterclockwise 90 degrees and turned the windage knob you will.
As I stated early on, consistent canted hold is not a problem. But my point now is that simply making the rear sight plumb to the bore, but neglecting the front sight's cant, is not eliminating cant. It's only making it easier for the shooter to be consistent. The range being fixed allows the crutch to be practical.Hold the same, zero for range, why wouldn't 10 shots go into the same POI?
True.Neither sight is plumb to bore.
True, but if you hang a plumb bob from any two points above Earth (like from the centers of the two sight apertures) they will be "plumb to each other".Plumb to each other,
There's a reticle inside the diopter? (I looked on Anschutz' site, can't find any such details, or a user's manual for Model 7002)reticle plumb to gravity.
They see each shot on a tiny video screen attached next to rear sight, as best I can discern.How were scores?
It shouldn't be a surprise. Canting a rifle with sights off vertical have been used in competition forever. Are the multi position shooters supposed to rotate sights for every position? I think they choose to leave them as is and figure out (as mentioned above) how to turn the elevation and windage dials to get where they need to be. I'm pretty sure they know their zeros for each position. Tubb has a whole section in his book "the Rifle Shooter" that goes through how why he does it the way he does.I was surprised to notice some shooters in Paris with a lot of cant evident in their hold.