Comments on: Avoid Canting Your Rifle for Better Accuracy and Higher Scores

By: Monte Milanuk

Monte Milanuk — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:38:43 +0000

Kind of sad… their High Power rifle results have been ‘coming soon’ for eight years…

By: Alan Warner

Alan Warner — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:34:00 +0000

We make quite a few canted bases for shooters that correct the sight to vertical. They vary from 3* to as much as 15* The average is around 8*

By: Jim Hardy

Jim Hardy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:35:37 +0000

Sam:

It is done all the time. I believe David Tubb uses a 10 degree cant, and John Whidden uses about a 12 degree cant. With a scope, all you do is rotate the scope in the rings to fit your position such that you have no horizional component when you make vertical adjustments. Takes a little work, but no big deal at all.

Jim Hardy

By: sam

sam — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:19:21 +0000

just looked at the diagram again. this is a 20 degree cant! quite an exaggeration. live with a cant of 2 or 3 degrees. better is not possible.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:16:15 +0000

you can NOT get the cross hairs into perfect 90 degree alignment. no, not with any tool, device, door edge, etc because there will always be slight variations caused by grip, shouldering, rest, etc factors. decide your most relevant hold and compensate however you like. understand reality and what is a standard deviation.

By: Roy Cole

Roy Cole — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:50:48 +0000

Desmond Burke,a very well known Canadian shooter from the .303 Enfield days, published a book on shooting in which he spends a considerable amount of time on what he coined “Burkes Bulges” , which was the effect of canting the rifle. The use of a post front sight heightened the effects. A very good read.

Roy

By: Editor

Editor — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:12:15 +0000

Oops… fixed. Original title was “canting your rifle can lower scores”. Thanks for the correction.

By: John Luitink

John Luitink — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:51:27 +0000

The title is a bit off. I want HIGHER scores. The article is good.

John

By: Boyd Allen

Boyd Allen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:49:47 +0000

Articles of this sort usually stop with an explanation and diagram. The target sets this one above the rest.

By: Jim Hardy

Jim Hardy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:40:31 +0000

Many of the best prone shooters in the world cant their rifles, i.e., David Tubb and John Whidden. However, they adjust the position of their sights (scope and irons) to a 12:00 position and use a bubble level on their guns or sights.

In fact, the canting of the rifle into your body in the prone usually gives you a tighter position and a more comfortable grip for trigger control.

Bottom line, it is not the canting of the rifle, but the canting of the sights away from the 12:00 position that can kill you — from the bench or the prone.

Jim Hardy