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You can take what 400 says to the bank, for it is gold!

One thing I would like to add, though is, There is one place a scope can be sighted in very percicely to one barrel. That is in a leopard blind, where the best shot you will take will be at "ONE", and only one, of his spots, for that all important first shot. In some places, and with some PHs the hide is set at 100yds from the bait. The scope is only mounted this way when the scope is in QD rings, and bases, so it can be removed before approching the downed cat, or for any follow-up. As Mark says, for general hunting, the scope should be zeroed in the middle of the composite group, and use it the same way you use any other rifle!

I have two doubles that are fitted with QD scope rings, and bases, both shoot fine with the scope on them. I would reccomend that if you want to mount a scope after the regulation is already done, that you choose the lightest scope you can find,that will take the recoil of the rifle, and mounted as low as is posible . This may still cause a problem, but there is less chance of it!

On the O/U double rifle the barrels are easier to regulate by the maker, because they both recoil up,and back, only, but to different degrees. You have very little lateral adjustment of the barrels in the O/U. The bottom barrel recoils much streighter back than the top barrel. The bottom barrel's bore center is much closer to the center of the horrizonal, and lateral CG,of the rifle, while the top barrel is far above both CGs, and the weight of a scope adds drasticlly to the troque generated by the top barrel.

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