I have a SRH .454 with a scope on it. When I mounted the scope, I leveled out the crosshairs and tightened down the rings. My problem is that when I hold the gun as if I am shooting, The crosshairs are dead level, but when I set the gun in a pistol rest they are canted. The cant is pretty small, probably 1 degree. What I am wondering is will this affect point of impact in relation to a canted point of aim?
I am obviously not doing any precision work with this gun, but I do want it to be up to its full potential.

Thanks in advance to any and all replies.

Cliff

Shoot it and see if it hits out to 100 yards accurately. If so, forget about the minor cant.
Otherwise, adjust the cant out in the vice then learn to shoot or hold the gun with better alignment.

The cant is pretty small, probably 1 degree. What I am wondering is will this affect point of impact in relation to a canted point of aim?
I am obviously not doing any precision work with this gun, but I do want it to be up to its full potential.

Thanks in advance to any and all replies.

Cliff

Other than the way I walk, I'm not an expert on "cant", but I would think that the key to accuracy in this case is consistency. If the cross hairs are held in the exact same position each time, accuracy should result. It may not be the true point of aim, but that's no problem because you'll adjust the scope so it hits at "scope point of aim".

Dan

I beleive the problem with a canted scope is the bullet may impact at different points left to right along the target line as a funtion of distance. For example, the bullet may strike to the left at 30 yards, dead-on at 60 yards and to the right at 90 yards. Check the target line and sure you haven't created a hypotenuse.

I tell you what buddy get those scope ring worked on they probably are bent like the dumb pair that I had a few years ago when I first got into handgun hunting and for the life of me I could not get the cant adjusted out those ruger supplied scope rings in my opinion they are not perfectly round in the beds were the scope tube lies making it almost impossible to get adjusted right. Secondly if you struggle to get it right and it seems you have to really tighten it more on one side than the other then you are probably just tearing your scope up.well good luck

One degree of cant, the difference is nil. You'll get more variations shot-to-shot than from the cant. Bullets (and everything else) only fall DOWN. Not right to left or left to right! Imagine the gun canted 90 degrees to the left(scope on the left, grip to the right), assuming it was hitting point of aim before, now it will hit to the left and down from where the scope crosshairs are. If you tilt it to the right, you will hit to the right and down from where the crosshairs are. If you put it upside down, you'll hit straight down from where the crosshairs are.

One summer, working at one of the area's larger gunshops, would mount perhaps 8 or 12 scopes a week. Had a system for getting them all dead level, but so many of the customers complained the scope was crooked that I just ledft that one item for the customer to have the opetion of setting.

They'd position it, and I'd dissapear into the back to finish the job. Measured, ALL of them were off....most a couple of degrees clockwise for right handed shooters....a few were twice that amount off.


Thing is, of the guys I saw shoot at the local range, they could shoot well with them. They might get 1/16" error in windage with elevation changes.


Don't sweat it.

I've always been of the opinion to set the "tool" accurately,
and learn to adjust myself.

dave