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    Any suggestions on a gunsmith located in San Antonio to mount a scope?

    I've always done my own scope mounting but I plan to be shooting at longer distances with this rifle and want to make sure it's done properly and without any cant.

    Thanks in advance!
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    I go to armed in America for gun work. There is a shop off of 281 between thousands oaks and brook hollow behind the McDonald’s. Can’t remember the name. But I would trust that place. Just not sure what they would charge


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    Yea, try finding a gunsmith that knows how to do that. Most wont fit you for eye relief much less screw the scope down square.

    Your best bet is to use a bench vice and a torpedo level and do it yourself.

    Then confirm the turrets track true and linearly. Many don’t.
     

    bodhi

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    Yea, try finding a gunsmith that knows how to do that. Most wont fit you for eye relief much less screw the scope down square.

    Your best bet is to use a bench vice and a torpedo level and do it yourself.

    Then confirm the turrets track true and linearly. Many don’t.

    Yeah, I may just do it myself so I can set eye relief. Probably less expensive to just buy two levels anyway.

    The scope is quality and tracks linearly. I'm just moving it to a solid mount from a QD mount.

    Thanks for the input.
     

    bodhi

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    I go to armed in America for gun work. There is a shop off of 281 between thousands oaks and brook hollow behind the McDonald’s. Can’t remember the name. But I would trust that place. Just not sure what they would charge


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    Thanks for the input. I decided I'm just going to buy some levels and do it myself.
     

    Renegade

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    Any suggestions on a gunsmith located in San Antonio to mount a scope?

    I've always done my own scope mounting but I plan to be shooting at longer distances with this rifle and want to make sure it's done properly and without any cant.

    Thanks in advance!

    It is impossible to properly mount a scope for you if you are not there.

    Use a bubble level to avoid cant. I put one on the gun to make sure the gun is true to the ground, then one on the scope. Wheeler makes them if you cannot use the standard Lowes/HD ones.
     

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    Thanks for the input. I decided I'm just going to buy some levels and do it myself.
    Nothing wrong with that. I just need a good vise and more importantly a work bench/table to mount the vise to so I just set it up and then get they guys at armed in America to tighten the rings and keep it level. It’s hard to do it on the kitchen table


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    Dawico

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    Levels for doing it yourself are handy but you still have to check.

    Rails on rifles may not sit perfectly square so leveling the rail may not actually be leveling the rifle.

    Leveling the turret may not actually be leveling the reticle.

    I have had better luck not using levels.
     

    Younggun

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    Hang a weighted string a short distance from the rifle. Get the rifle bagged in as level as possible and match the vertical crosshair to the string. Check it as you tighten the rings.

    No need to spend money having someone else do it.


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    FireInTheWire

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    I set my rifles up for prone shooting. Your eye relief will be different in prone. Now I get the scope where I want it and get down in the floor and verify my relief before my final tightening. Just a fyi.... sucks to get it all mounted up, take it to the field and it not fit like a glove.
     

    bodhi

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    Just wanted to thank everyone for the input =)

    I should be mounting it this weekend.
     

    HKShooter65

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    Any suggestions on a gunsmith located in San Antonio to mount a scope?

    I've always done my own scope mounting but I plan to be shooting at longer distances with this rifle and want to make sure it's done properly and without any cant.

    Thanks in advance!


    An observation and criticism about my own technique.

    I can generally, on my kitchen table, get scopes mounted very close to perfect.

    What I'm recently shocked at is how badly I cant the rifle when I'm shooting.
    My hand loading OCD shooting buddy, a real precision guy, bought 4 bubble levels for our rifles and gave me two on long term loan since we shoot one another's rifles on our frequent outings.

    We task each other with watching the bubble levels.
    https://www.amazon.com/s?k=scope+bu...621519&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_21wyaaw8tx_b
    Wow.
    Way off the horizontal is the general rule!!!
    A cheap easy to hone our technique was found in those simple little devices.

    One more thing.
    Buy one of these and properly torque everything you can.
    https://www.amazon.com/Wheeler-Accu...=B0012AXR4S&psc=1&refRID=100N42QE97WYJT4APMWA
    I found I generally OVER tighten stuff by 100 to 200% !!!
     
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