Proper Scope Mounting  We will start from scratch here. A brand new remington 700 bolt action rifle, millett 2 piece windage adjustable scope bases, millett scope rings and a leupold 3-9 variable power scope. Fairly common hunting rig.  Now lets mount the scope the right way to achieve its full accuracy potential.  Note: If you follow this scope mounting procedure exactly it will be impossible to cant the scope. 1. Mount the rifle in a padded vise as far away from a wall opposing the muzzle end of the rifle, the farther away the better. 2. Attach the scope mount base to the rifle securely. 3. Now take a level and lay it on the base horizontal to the rifle bore. Level the rig out in the vise and lock it down. 4. Attach the scope rings, make sure the scope will lay down into the rings without them moving when you go to tighten the scope into the rings. 5. Now take the scope and put it between 2 v blocks and spin the scope watching the crosshairs for wobble, adjust the scope to insure there is no wobble in the crosshairs, this is critical to your accuracy. 6. Check to make sure that your rig is still level in the vise and then set the scope in the rings. 7. On the opposing wall away from the rifle muzzle draw a vertical and horizontal line, again using a level to insure that the line is plumb vertically and level horizontally. It should look like a plus sign. 8. Remove the bolt from the rifle, looking through the rifles bore, center the plus sign in it.  Note: If you can't remove the bolt use a laser chamber boresighter only. 9. Do Not Use The Windage Screws On The Scope For This Procedure.  Align the vertical post in the scope with the vertical line on the wall using only the windage screws on the scope base and tighten down the scope rings, make sure that all stay level and plumb vertically and horizontally. 10. If you have done everything correctly, you have just mounted the scope to all the exact tolerances that have been machined into all the scope mount components. Everything to its true and exact mechanical center point. 11. Your rifles scope is now properly mounted and is range ready for a true sight-in, if you have followed this method of scope mounting use my method to properly sight in your rifle. Go to the rifle shooting section. Copyright 2001 - 2007