| DUGABOY1 |
| (.400 member) |
| 19/05/08 01:25 AM |
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Re: Lead sled and stocks
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OK, I get the torque/twist bit. I am interested in the scope thoughts though. It makes sense to me that if you shoot a 4 shot group with a scope, 2 lefts, 2 rights at, say 100 yds and get a 2" group why not sight the scope into the middle of the group ? Even the guy at Hollands said "sight the scope in for the left barrel only" but I can't see why. When the thing arrives (the .375) I am going to mess around a lot and try and sort the things out in my own head. In the meantime when the .470 O/U gets here (in 3 weeks or so I hope) I will try a couple off the sled with no lead (but the sled does add 20lbs of weight on its own) and report back. thx to everyone for the input, best, Mike
That is what I said in my post above! The scope should be sighted in to the exact POA as the irons sights, which is the center of a four shot composite group of both barrels!
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from my other post
The scope should be zeroed the exact same way the iron sights are zeroed! By this I mean once a load is found that shoots to the rifles regulation, the sights, both scope, and irons should be zeroed exactly to the center of a four shot composit group of both barrels.
The use of any fixture to shoot a double rifle is nothing more that wasted very expensive ammo,because the double rifle will not shoot properly if the rifle touches anything other that the shooter! It is not the weight that does the damage to your shooting groups, it is that the rifle is touching the lead-sled. This interferes with the critical "FREE" recoil arch, and the rifle will simply not shoot properly! If you decide to go ahead with the sled anyway, I wish you good luck!
