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Message: <blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 2825624" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>Yeah, another way to think of it is that normally, your rifle is sighted in to compensate for gravity when it is pulling straight down in the direction of the mag well.  Your barrel is aimed up in relation to your sights so the bullet will fall onto your POA.  When you cant, gravity is not pulling that way anymore, but your zero is still trying to compensate for it by aiming the barrel up a little extra... which will cause you to overshoot in the direction of the top of your rifle.  Also your zero does not take into account the way gravity is now pulling, so the bullet will hit lower to the ground the more canted you are.  These effects are increased by the height of sights over bore, and distance to target.</p></blockquote><p></p>