how do you guys in gals I'm Kyle Broderick welcome to the social
regressive we have the Savage 12 F V and 6.5 Creedmoor all ready to go for the
big mile suit we have ammo we have an action bed we have pillar bedding we
have all kinds of other things we've done to this to get it ready for this
big challenge we want it to be precise we want it to be reliable and so far I
think we've done a pretty darn good job it has come out really well make sure
you check out the full playlist especially if you want to a cure eyes
your own rifle do a pillar betting job and an action betting job we have some
very concise kind of steps you can take to get that accomplished what we're
gonna do before we head out though is make sure that our rifle is canted
properly when we're at the firing line at a mile any bit of camp that I have on
the rifle is going to cause some big problems downrange it's going to throw
the bullet off to one side or the other and it's gonna affect elevation as well
we want to make sure this is straight up and down as possible and all we need to
do that now you couldn't go out and buy one of those levels like you get from
swf a us optics a number of people make them vortex has one and I think in
general probably about the lowest you're gonna pay for anything you actually want
to buy is probably gonna be about 30 bucks SWF a has one for 30 bucks
and that just clamps on to the the scope itself it's like a scope ring they have
some that attach to the rail on the underside here you can take your pick
but you can actually just pay kind of a few cents with one of these and a little
bit of caulk like we have right here this is some silicone caulk I've done
this on a couple of rifles already and the effect has been really good I've
really liked how it came out but yeah I'm gonna put a link to this right here
you can buy a whole bag of these for about ten bucks and that way you can go
through all the rifle scopes in your collection and maybe find a way to to
tack these on so yeah all we're gonna do is if you have some kind of flattop ring
you can attach these to that and be able to get a pretty decent level a
prerequisite to this little tutorial is that you have flat top
rings if you have some of the rounded ones then I think you're kind of out of
luck you might be able to take a really cheap ring you have laying around
maybe attach it up here you know somewhere on the scope and then kind of
spin it around so that the the bottom of it is up here you know to kind of mill
it out and pop the the level on top that kind of thing could work but for the
most part to keep this cheap thankfully I already have some flat top rings going
on right here and the first thing I need to do is establish level so I have this
chucked up in my vise whatever kind of stable platform you can find whether
it's sandbags or something just make sure that your rifle is nice and steady
and that it is level relative to the rail I couldn't fit the the level
actually under the scope because it's so low so I'm just using a steel ruler to
verify that but yes we are nice and level
and now we can pick a ring if Kant is really really important to me I could
just slap it right on that front one in front of my kind of occluding my view of
the the turret here but I think that I want to be able to continue to see my
numbers very easily without raising my head up a whole bunch so maybe instead I
can use my left eye to check level and I can see right off the bat that this is
not level with the rail right now the top of this is not entirely flat so I
could shim this up just a tad to bring it to level that's probably going to be
pretty difficult I think instead what I'm going to do is back out the the
screws on this side and then tighten them down just a little bit on this side
so we're going to actually rotate the top of the ring just a little bit to get
it a little bit flatter for the the scope ring we'll see how that works I'm
using a Weaver torque wrench I have used this a lot on this project and I love it
but what I'm going to do is I'm going to back this one out just a quarter turn
same for this one
and we'll tighten down the other side
and see if that works
that was easy now I do need to verify that I have proper torque all the way
around okay so that turned in just a little bit that might upset it a little
bit we'll find out oh yeah perfect all right so this is now torqued down to the
appropriate 15 pound inches that's gonna be all the way across those top screws
looking great it's ad-hesive time and I'm going to be
using more expensive tools right here I want to be able to put a very thin bead
of the caulk right in here I don't want it to actually touch the scope it's
probably not going to mess anything up this should peel off of all these
surfaces really easily later but just in case
I'm going to touch up the bead of caulk just to make sure that we're getting
good contact on there I can see through the the bubble level actually that it's
making solid contact but I just want to make sure that we have plenty of
coverage let that dry and you're done thanks for watching you guys make sure
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going to want to miss out on the next video in this series which is going to
be that long-range challenge we are going to have a really good time out there and
I'm really expecting this rifle to be able to make repeated hits out at that
distance I think it's gonna be up to the task we'll see what the weather throws
our way that's always the interesting part how windy is Oklahoma going to be
on the day of the test but at least we will now have appropriate can't dialed
in we're gonna be nice and flat versus gravity so we do have that to look
forward to thanks to everybody that has made the project possible thank you to
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