Patent ID: 8316571

Claim:
A method of installing a rifle scope to a rifle having a scope mounting location, such that, when the rifle is transversely level, the vertical line of the scope reticle is aligned with the direction of bullet drop, comprising: (a) providing a mounting facilitating fixture having a front and back and a rifle vise including a rifle vise bottom wall and a rifle vise side wall, extending upwardly from said bottom wall, that defines a longitudinal/vertical plane, and a rifle stock rest, in front of and rigidly affixed to said rifle vise by an intermediate member, but separated therefrom by a space and including a rifle stock rest bottom wall and a rifle stock rest side wall that is aligned to said rifle vise side wall, and a pair of supporting legs aligned parallel to said longitudinal/vertical plane a first said supporting leg extending downwardly from said rifle vise bottom wall and a second said supporting leg extending downwardly from said rifle stock rest bottom wall, and a rifle vice transverse orientation adjustment device having a single, height-adjustable leg, supporting said fixture in conjunction with said pair of supporting legs; (b) clamping said rifle into said rifle vise, at said scope mounting location, and adjusting said rifle vise transverse orientation adjustment device until said rifle is transversely level; and, (c) while said rifle is still held in a transversely level position in said rifle vise, connecting a scope having a vertical line in the reticle to said rifle so that said vertical line is plumb in relation to the Earth.