Just a heads up on alignment bars that end in points…this never occurred to me, I’m not an engineer, but they are completely useless. Should be removed from the marketplace for false advertising.
Here are some bars that actually can align rings:
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They are made by a one man shop by the name of
Kokopelli (story
about them). I own them, haven’t used them, bought them before I learned that high quality rings and rails basically negate alignment bars for slobs like me. And I’m lazy. But at least in
theory they should work,
unlike the pointed versions.
Why are pointed alignment bars useless? Just think about it. I did, came up with nothing, until I read this:
“Take two ordinary pencils. With one pencil in each hand, hold them parallel with the pointed (lead) tips touching. Now simply move the outboard end of each pencil, while keeping the tips touching. You can see instantly that the tips can touch even if the pencils are way out of alignment. The same thing can be true of [ed. – pointed] scope alignment bars.”
BOOM!
^ that’s my mind blowing up, maybe it’s not yours