#10MinuteTalk - Use Gravity and a Flashlight to Level Your Scope – The Reverse Projection Method

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Getting your scope level is a critical component of the mounting process. Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn demonstrate the reverse projection method to get perfect level. This process is illuminating and the gravity of the result it yields cannot be overstated.

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0:00.0	What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic here, my good friend, Ryan Muck and Hearn across from me.
0:08.0	Now, Ryan, we've got a rifle here. We've got a flashlight. We've got some hand tools, a whiteboard.
0:17.2	I had you come all the way upstairs, and it's about time I level with you.
0:23.7	It's about time I level this rifle scope with you using the reverse projection method.
0:31.3	How'd that one treat you?
0:34.7	Mark, you're really good at that.
0:36.6	How'd that one treat you? That's a classic old man saying. How'd that one treat you?
0:38.4	That's a classic old man saying, how'd that one treat you?
0:44.4	Again, I can only assume all this is off the cuff.
0:46.9	None of this is premeditated.
0:48.0	It just comes to you and flows out of your mouth.
0:50.4	There was a little bit of prefab on the way to walking over here.
0:54.2	It was so. Mark, that was, um, that was really good.
0:59.1	Irregardless. You can't say that.
1:02.8	I said that to bother you. It bothers me. It bothered me saying it, actually.
1:07.4	Uh, regardless, we do have all these things here. have you here and this is a really cool way
1:13.4	to make sure that your rifle scope is level which is a critical component in the rifle scope
1:19.6	mounting process you got to be level that is a i agree with that yes i mean it can create all
1:25.7	sorts of issues if it's not.
1:30.8	Yeah, so the further out you shoot, the further out you're going to be off.
1:33.9	And, yeah, so a level system is an important thing.
1:38.2	And, I mean, there are guys that eyeball it and do pretty darn good.
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