Chronos wrote:The most important thing with scope mounting is that your eye lines up with the scope. forget all the talk about getting the scope as low as possible, it's mostly an american wives tail that stems from the days when they started putting scopes on iron sighted rifles.
Close your eyes and put your head on the stock in a comfortable position and open your eyes, you'll soon find out if your rings are too high or even too low
Chronos
Chronos wrote:Anyway my point sally-Bee is the ring height will make very little difference to how the gun performs.
Here's a comparison for you using some .223 factory ammo and two ring heights, 1.5" from bore center to scope center and 1.9". thats about a 10mm difference like in your example
Of course none of this makes any difference because if someone plans on shooting anything at longer ranges they should be getting data in the way of velocity and actual drop in the way of scope settings before hand. Also all the ballistic calculators allow you to set your sight height before doing any calculations. Remember ring height doesn't change the trajectory or your bullet, just how it's perceived by you
Chronos
Chronos wrote:well it would be nice if you actually shared some information on this forum instead of just trolling the same people week to week and never actually answering any of the forums threads with real answers. there's a reason my sig line says see contradiction below. because guaranteed you'll pop up to argue what i've said
you claim to be some kind of all knowing guru on most topics but i never read anything from you i can't hear from the grumpy old fullbore shooters down at the range
take your BS and go play on facebook
Chronos
Warrigul wrote:I can't believe someone who claims to shoot long distance actually wrote that? As close to boreline as possible is required to minimise cant angle windage error at distance. You should never go higher than you need to clear bolt/barrel/action or ejection.
High rings are a pain in the arse on a .22 at close ranges as well but you can live with them if needed..
Where possible you don't use the mount height to suit your eyes, the rifle simply doesn't fit you properly if you need to raise the scope to get a consistant sight picture. Improper fit is the biggest cause of problem recoil.
Warrigul wrote:Only pistol silhouette
Chronos wrote:Sorry each sample is two pics