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Need help sighting in scope >:-/
Took my Remington 700 SPS Tactical out about a month ago, had a blast!
First time out, I was happy that I was hitting a barrel at 200-300 yards but now I want to get the thing dialed in and accurate so I can hit paper accurately. If any of you experts here ever hit up the Wes Thompson range in Piru or the Angeles range, lemme know - I'd like to get a proper hands on education on how to properly utilize the optics. .308 ammo aint CHEAP haha Thanks! |
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You probably wonder why the lack of response and this board ain't shy. To be honest with you, what little info you gave isn't much to go on with troubleshooting. and it tells us you're probably new to scoped rifle shooting. So... I'll take a shot at it. A few things to consider:
1. You need proper rest to stablize the rifle front and back during firing. Rifle rests, sandbags, bipods are definitely needed. I've helped/seen too many shooters with loose action, ring, mount screws and wondered why they couldn't zero their rifles. 2. Rifle/scope set up - make sure all actions screws are tightened properly. scope rings & mount screws are properly tightened as well. 3. Scope turret markings that says 'Up' and 'Right' means the directions of bullet impact on the target. So if you turn the turret in the 'Up' direction your next shot will shoot high. This is probably the biggest confusion for newbies. You should also know how much 1 click will move the cross hair at 100 yards. it's usually 1/4" or 1/4MOA so you need 4 clicks to move it 1" at 100 yards. 4. 'Bore sight' - Set a clean target up at 100 yards. Clean target so you can see 'all' new bullet holes. Remove the bolt, rest the rifle on bags/rest/bipods front and back. without touching the rifle, look down the rifle bore from chamber end from a couple of feet away & center up both ends of the bore and adjust rifle so the target is dead center inside the bore. 5. Now look thru the scope without touching rifle and see where the cross hair is on the target. Adjust the turret so the cross hair is dead center on the target. look thru the bore from time to time to make sure target is still dead center of the bore. Tip, if the cross hair is high & left that means your rifle will shoot low & right. so turn turret Up and Left. 6. Dry fire - 'ammo ain't cheap' and shooting live rounds is exactly the same as shooting an empty chamber up to the point when trigger breaks. Take aim at the target and 'squeeze' the trigger on an empty chamber as if you're shooting live rounds till the cross hair doesn't move & your eyes don't close after trigger breaks. sounds easy but it's not. 7. Load 1 round and take aim at 'the' target. Repeat what you did in 6 slowly and carefully. 8. check out the bullet point of impact (POI) on target. Adjust the turrets to 'move' the POI 'Up' 'Down', 'Right', 'Left as the turrents indicate. It's most precise if you can walk up to the target to measure the POI to the POA (point of aim) in both elevation (up/down) and windage (left/right) so you know exactly how many clicks to adjust the turrets. 9. Aim at the exact same target and fire 3 more rounds to get a 'group'. Your rifle should be able to group 1" at 100 yards the rest is up to you. Now the group should be much closer if not dead on the center of the target. fine tune the zero using the turrets once more but this time adjust cross hair to the center of the 3-shot group. from now on you're good to go. Total of 4 shots fired and the gun is perfectly zero'ed. 10. make sure you dry fire in between live shots to ensure you're not 'flinching', closing eyes or jerking the trigger. 11. report back and let us know how you did.
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