Sundodger
WKR
When I measure my LOP by the old fashion way around 14" works best and historically that's how I have set up my rifles. Given that, I shoot with my shoulders "bladed out" just like all of our fathers and grandfathers taught us.
Honestly, it has worked fine, but I recently tried to set up one of my tikkas to the "new way" with a much shorter LOP to shoot with my shoulders square to the rifle stock. Reason being, this new approach looks to have some potential merits when you draw up a free body diagram on the system.
Using a scope with 3.8" of eye relief, there was no way to get the scope far enough forward to place my eye in the eyebox.
Does this only work with scopes that have really short eye relief or am I missing something? I could put a rail on it, and use an AR style cantilever scope mount, but that seems ridiculous.
All you kids hip to this new approach:
-How have you worked around this problem?
-Is this even a good approach for real world hunting?
New way of setting LOP:
Honestly, it has worked fine, but I recently tried to set up one of my tikkas to the "new way" with a much shorter LOP to shoot with my shoulders square to the rifle stock. Reason being, this new approach looks to have some potential merits when you draw up a free body diagram on the system.
Using a scope with 3.8" of eye relief, there was no way to get the scope far enough forward to place my eye in the eyebox.
Does this only work with scopes that have really short eye relief or am I missing something? I could put a rail on it, and use an AR style cantilever scope mount, but that seems ridiculous.
All you kids hip to this new approach:
-How have you worked around this problem?
-Is this even a good approach for real world hunting?
New way of setting LOP:
