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#10MinuteTalk - 20 MOA Bases

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Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we go over 20 MOA bases (Or really any kind of canted base, for that matter - there are other options besides 20 MOA!) What do they actually do, how do they work, how do they actually affect your scope, why would anyone actually ever need one and what are some times when it could actually be the wrong move for your particular firearm and optic combo. Heck - your gun may already have 20 MOA built into the rail it came with! These types of bases can be a great practical tool when used the right way and in the right context. Check it out and let’s us know whether or not you use a canted base and why!

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here. It is just myself Jimmy. Mark is traveling.

0:05.2

Hopefully he'll be back soon and Ryan McIner across the table for me to discuss the topic

0:10.1

of canted bases. You may also just hear them commonly referred to just sort of a blanket almost like people

0:16.4

call on tissues Kleenex 20 MOA rails and we see people ask questions on these things all the time.

0:23.9

Or sometimes people don't even know that they exist.

0:26.3

Sometimes people think they need them, but they don't.

0:28.8

Any number of things.

0:30.4

But Ryan, you are here because you chat about these things pretty much every day on the phones.

0:35.0

What first off is this?

0:38.0

So there's a number of different ways we can can't the rifle scope down and we'll get into why

0:44.0

we would do that in a little bit here but speaking specifically to the one-piece

0:48.0

Picatinny rails because this is becoming a very very common mounting platform or

0:52.3

interface for your bolt action rifles even your

0:54.6

semi-attos. So it's a base like this picketini rail here for you watching on

0:59.8

YouTube and it is lower in the front and higher in the back in a certain amount

1:05.0

usually most commonly 20 MOA and that's it's literally just biasing our scope

1:11.0

up in the back down down in the front.

1:13.9

There's a couple other different ways you can do it to.

1:15.6

You can actually get like an adjustable base

1:18.2

or ring system that is going to accomplish the same thing.

1:21.1

And all we're doing is we're tipping the front of the

1:23.8

optic down relative to the barrel of the gun if you will so if we imagine this thing

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