As a general rule for any scope and canted base ail, take the total elevation travel of the scope, divide by two, and that number will be the maximum amount of moa base to mount.

I really like these lived and learned episodes.

My Armalite AR50A1 50BMG has a 15 MOA rail with a 20 MOA DNZ Reaper BEAST mount and the SWFA SS 5-20X50 HD scope. It's an amazing setup. My Ruger Precision Rifle Gen3 308 has the 20 MOA rail with a DNZ Freedom Reaper 20 MOA mount with a SWFA SS fixed 10 power scope (it's the US Navy contract number N00164-93-C-205 model) and it's also an amazing setup. Of course the SWFA SS scopes have more elevation travel than almost any other scope on the market so it's not an issue at close range but gives you insane amounts of adjustment for long ranges and extreme long ranges.

Nice timing on the video. I was having the same problem on one of my rifles and have been scratching my head. Big help, thanks.

Interesting video. That’s something I’ve wondered about before.

Outstanding video. I appreciate your honesty. Absolutely nothing wrong with " I goofed up " ... There aren't many of us left, that would say so.... :)

I did this with my .223 without thinking about it. My 6.5 CM is set up with a 20 MOA base and 20 MOA mount. I set my .223 up the exact same way. Same scope, same rifle, same base, same mount. I was about 1 Mil high at 100 and could not come any lower.

Flip it around, would have gave you 0 moa. LOL, just so you can stay out and shoot.

On my MDT LSS I have a 20 MOA MDT Picatinny scope rail with a 20 MOA Spuhr qd mount but my Schmidt Bender PMII has 34 Mils of elevation which is I still within the elevation range.

I have an 18" .308.. a trued howa with a bart 1.25" straight pipe on it... lol. fits perfectly with about 2mm around the barrel in the xlr evolution handguard. have 60moa built in just cause.. i go trans at 770 using 175's. kinda whatever. ya know?

Great video on stacking. I have had a similar problem that was very perplexing. How does one determine the incline of rifle, mount and scope when they are not marked and manufacturer does not provide that information?

I bought a Steiner T5Xi 3-15 and they say to use a 45moa mount. Boy are they wrong, it caused the same issue because it doesn't have any downward movement in the turret. Ended up with a Geissele 20 moa mount that worked great, up 3 mils from the bottom and still about 21 mils of up travel.

I just blindly discovered i had this same problem today at the range on my savage axis 2. I had just put on a new sig tango 4 (6 to 24 x50) and discovered i had 40 moa incline and ran out of down clicks. Learning the hard way is expensive lol. I suppose i need a smaller 0 moa mount or mounts. Im not sure what works best to fix this, but thankful i found your video to learn of a 0 moa mount that exists. Thanks!

When is the Nightforce ATACR review coming? Thanks for the great show.

I put a 20 moa badger base with a 20 moa adm Mount; with my Bushnell dmr ii I easily got a 200 yard zero With the razor hd's being on sale I replaced the bushy and couldn't get a 200yd zero. I have a match next weekend so I had to zero at 300 then after the match ill put regular rings on and hopefully get back to my 200yd zero Great video as always

i need a 40 moa rail for my 22lr to reach a 440 yard target i have. currently the farthest i can hit accurately is 330 yards which is already a 45 moa up in elevation.

Too late. I made this mistake already. 🤣

It happens. I drove to my local range, set up my paper targets, set up my lane, went to get my ammunition.......had the wrong cartridges!!! After packing up, leaving my targets only hoping they stay there, i went home and got the correct cartridges, got back to range and my targets were gone. Improvised with other people's cartridge boxes in the trash can, turned them inside out and drew a target on them. An other range mishap/bungle stories out there?

personally i don't like MOA rails or mounts. i know it helps with adjusting for zero at long range but it bothers me to see the scope nose diving on top of a rifle. i like using hold over to achieve long range shots.

Does the Nightforce NXS 5-25x50 have enough adjustment to run bases equal to 40 MOA of incline?

Duuuuuur 😉

Woulda been fine if you were gonna shoot 10 miles ha

Noob move.