Bare w/me Ladies & Gents on this...
Ok, not too long ago i had bent my RX2 .20cal's barrel to within a inch of my "mechanically centered" bushnell engage scope. I had made sure that I aligned the crosshairs to bisect the center of my bore via mirror method then fine tuned it with a plumb bob string while the doing my best to make sure the rifle was level and barely turned the scope in the rings to match up with the line. I zero'd it at 25yds and then moved the target to 10yds. On the 10yd target I drew a plumb vertical line via torpedo level and 3 shots, same hole on the vertical plumb line.
My question is, I checked with a framing square the barrels left to right "straightness" or whatever its called, by placing the square on the left and right side of the breach block. I noticed that the barrel is just a smidge closer, didn't have calipers to measure exactness, to the square when its on the right side, meaning it could possibly be very slightly bent to the right.
So I put the open sights back on, removed the scope and shot at a 15yd target. I counted the number of clicks from L to R on the rear leaf open sights and got 80 clicks. So I assumed that clicking the 40 times would put me in the middle so to speak. I shot at the 15yd target and my shots landed to the right. I wasn't able to mechanically tell if I was or was not canting the rifle.
So I am wondering if I were to shoot at say a 50yd target with the scope back on as I had it before, zero'd at 25yd, aligned with the bore, cant eliminated and so forth, will it land to the right as well ? Hope this all makes sense. Now if it does land towards the right, when I bend the barrel should I check with open sights? Are counting those clicks a good way to determine if the open sights are centered? Thanks in advance
Ok, not too long ago i had bent my RX2 .20cal's barrel to within a inch of my "mechanically centered" bushnell engage scope. I had made sure that I aligned the crosshairs to bisect the center of my bore via mirror method then fine tuned it with a plumb bob string while the doing my best to make sure the rifle was level and barely turned the scope in the rings to match up with the line. I zero'd it at 25yds and then moved the target to 10yds. On the 10yd target I drew a plumb vertical line via torpedo level and 3 shots, same hole on the vertical plumb line.
My question is, I checked with a framing square the barrels left to right "straightness" or whatever its called, by placing the square on the left and right side of the breach block. I noticed that the barrel is just a smidge closer, didn't have calipers to measure exactness, to the square when its on the right side, meaning it could possibly be very slightly bent to the right.
So I put the open sights back on, removed the scope and shot at a 15yd target. I counted the number of clicks from L to R on the rear leaf open sights and got 80 clicks. So I assumed that clicking the 40 times would put me in the middle so to speak. I shot at the 15yd target and my shots landed to the right. I wasn't able to mechanically tell if I was or was not canting the rifle.
So I am wondering if I were to shoot at say a 50yd target with the scope back on as I had it before, zero'd at 25yd, aligned with the bore, cant eliminated and so forth, will it land to the right as well ? Hope this all makes sense. Now if it does land towards the right, when I bend the barrel should I check with open sights? Are counting those clicks a good way to determine if the open sights are centered? Thanks in advance
