scope leveling

[Jer]

Easiest and cheapest way in the world has to be a deck of playing cards. Get a decent base and then just use however many/few playing cards you need for the distance between the scope body and the base and you're good to go. Tighten and pull the cards and it will be level to the rifle every time. Doesn't hurt the then level the rifle when you have a chance or access to a bubble level then compare scope reticle to a known plumb line to verify.

BPTactical: Why would you want to cant the optic to the shooter? That's not the proper way of doing things to adjust for human error in your scope mounting. The proper way is to make sure the rifle and optic are both perfectly level and add an external anti-cant device of some sort so as you shoot you can make sure that the rifle is level before taking the shot... especially if you don't dial windage and just hold it. Trying to mount to account for individual human error serves only to assure your scope is NEVER level.

[BPTactical]

Easiest and cheapest way in the world has to be a deck of playing cards. Get a decent base and then just use however many/few playing cards you need for the distance between the scope body and the base and you're good to go. Tighten and pull the cards and it will be level to the rifle every time. Doesn't hurt the then level the rifle when you have a chance or access to a bubble level then compare scope reticle to a known plumb line to verify.

BPTactical: Why would you want to cant the optic to the shooter? That's not the proper way of doing things to adjust for human error in your scope mounting. The proper way is to make sure the rifle and optic are both perfectly level and add an external anti-cant device of some sort so as you shoot you can make sure that the rifle is level before taking the shot... especially if you don't dial windage and just hold it. Trying to mount to account for individual human error serves only to assure your scope is NEVER level.

For a bench rest/varmint/Tac rifle ant-cants make sense and can only be determined by the shooter.
For your typical hunting rifle though where a snap shot is typical it makes sense to adjust the combo the shooter.