ON THE LEVEL

Those of us who have been shooting a long time often take for granted that we are holding our crosshairs nice and level when we take a shot. What I mean by ‘level’ is that our sights are level at ninety degrees to the horizontal plane for the vertical line in our scope image, which should also be at a perfect right angle to our gun’s action.

This is often easier said than done to achieve. I have lost count of the number of shooters whose scopes I have looked through to discover that their crosshairs are far from a perfect ninety degrees, usually with a slight incline to the vertical post of the reticle depending upon whether they are left- or right-handed.

So why is this such an important issue to