Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics The best scope leveling device.

Notice the soft high quality nylon string.
The American made Craftsman 3/4 inch box end open end wrench.
The ability to be used on any rifle range. With a Target frame at any distance. I prefer 100 yards.
Guaranteed to work at a 1000 yards.

Compact carrying size...

dave

Took me a moment to realize you made a plumb bob.

Kinda tricky on a breezy day

Gravity is your friend.......

Works great, as long as your rifle is level too. That to me is always the tricky part, being sure that the rifle doesn't twist ever so slightly once I start mounting the scope.

Hay Dave.
I was remounting the Athlon for DonKnows SIL.



dave

I use a version of strait shot segway scope leveler.. cheap simple easy your gun does not have to be level. but it does need a flat area on the action to work correctly...

The Athlon 2-12 .
With Seekens rings.
dave

Mounted up on the MooCow.
I had much higher kelbely rings on it last season.
It was all I had. And now I need those rings for a bench gun.
Picked up the Seekens.
Dave

I’ve had great success aligning reticle and rifle with this device.

https://parabola-llc.com/

That big Dot in the Athlon fits ever so nice inside this bull.
Figure 1.5 inside diameter. At 100 yards.
Without touching anything from where it was.
First shot went high left.
Click to the hit,, trying for 2.5 inches high at 100 yards.
Shot the second shot.
And then gave it 1 more click up for the last shot.
3 and done.
I'll let the kid shoot it from here out.
dave

Had DonKnows SIL out a few weeks ago with the previous scope mounting.
6.5 x 47 Lapua in the MooCow.
3 at 300 yards.
Barnes 6.5 127g LRX with Varget.
dave

I've looked at and been aware of those for a very long time.
I stick with the plum Bob.
Find it works on the 1000 bench guns with no issues at all.
Only time I had a problem was someone had a German reticle .. post and tee style. The bottom post was tapered
And there wasn't anything on top at all .
All I had to work with was the horizontal.
I put up a big white clean sheet of paper at 100 yards, and used a 6 foot level and a fat black marks-a-lot marker and drew a long assed line long the level.
Never shot that gun past 300 yards but no issues I could see.
I see a lot of people obsessing over this.
As long as the reticle looks squared up to YOU , when YOUR using it.
Your GTG.
dave

Or when you shoulder it.

The barrel mounted level below is really helpful.

Good point.

Level scope, OK. Rifle?

I like mine coordinated, scope with rifle.

May take more than just gravity to pull that off.

DF

Gravity is your friend.

I like this device, offered by a Fire contributor.

DF

Yep.

The reason it works so well is that it coordinates the reticle with the center of the rear of the bolt on bolt-actions--which are what most of us use for longer-range shooting. But know some people who somehow can't use it correctly, probably due to vision problems.

Whether the rifle/scope is level when shooting is another question. Have run some interesting tests on that with Charlie Sisk, where we tilted the rifle more than 30 degrees when using his STAR (Sisk Tactical Adaptable Rifle) stock.

I use the flashlight through the objective lens method and consider it the most efficient way to level a scope at the workbench. Pics are of a Marlin 336 and they are very easy to level in a vise.
On a bolt gun used for extended range I'll already have a rail mounted anti-cant device installed, and use that to level the rifle. Usually a US Optics bubble level installed on the pic rail where I can observe it with my non-dominate eye without breaking my cheekweld. Since that's what I use in the field I want the reticle to match it.
If I want to get more fussy than that with a bolt gun I go shoot a tall target test at 100 yards and make the erector track perfectly to a plumb line drawn on a 4 or 5 foot tall target through as much elevation as the scope has in it.