Just a thought for scope manufacturers.....

[bobinpa]

I think that we have all gone through this at one time or another. When mounting a scope, we want the vertical part of the retical perfectly vertical..... or in laymens terms, we want the cross hairs straight up and down from the center of the bore. When we click up we want to go straight up. We have all come up with a way to level the retical and there are many tools or gagets out there to help us accomplish this. BUT wouldn't it be nice if a scope company did this: Put a manufactured scribe in the center of the top of the tube and put a manufactured scribe in the ring..... something that we could just line up. Or better yet.... Put a manufactured or machined groove in the top of the scope tube and manufacture a ring with a "rail" to fit in the groove. Am I missing something ????? Is there a functional problem with this or is it a cost issue????? I can't be the first guy to think of this. Looking for opinions.....

 

[DesertLefty]

Amen.

 

[billmo]

Sure would make mounting a scope a breeze, not having to worry about whether the cross hairs were straight 180 and 90 degrees. And, it would make the scope manfs. double check for canted reticles too. Good thinking man. Bill

 

[rednek]

The other side of the coin is this though. The scope should be straight for the shooter and not neccessarily to the world. Some people will hold the gun canted, and if the scope is straight up and down the scope will be canted.

My $.02 say mount the scope to the shooter, not the scope to the gun.

 

[billmo]

I disagree with that man. The scope should be mounted square and plumb to the rifle. If an individual holds the rifle canted then I would say that is just their way if holding the rifle. However, how does one hold the same amount of cant each time? That seems to me like it would be a handicap. Just my opinion. Bill

 

[kokopelli]

All well and good, except the holes drilled into the receivers are definitely not perfect. They are not necessarily drilled in line with the vertical line top-to bottom through the receiver. They also are not always perfectly aligned with the axis of the receiver/barrel. The components are getting better right along, but perfect is something to strive for. It is rarely acheived in the machining world. If everything was always perfect we wouldn't even have to sight the rifle in, just mount the scope and hit the bullseye first shot! Ahhh to dream!