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Okay, all you M1 Garand folks who are purists and would never do anything with a Garand other than restore it to its original glory, please turn your heads and don't read any further . . . you won't like this thread!
As for the rest of you . . . I have a question, but first a little background:
I impulse-bought a 7.62mm DGR re-barreled HRA Garand recevier (otherwise stripped) from Bongos last year, and have been trying ever since to decide what to do with it. I was, at first, thinking of building it into an NRA High Power service rifle, but I have since come to the conclusion that I would spend my time better and more wisely by working on improving my shooting skills with my WOA/Stag AR-15 service rifle rather than trying to learn to shoot the Garand in high power matches as well.
So, I recently saw that Midway USA had Ramline synthetic stocks for Garands on sale for $50, and that gave me the idea to build it up as a tactical/sniper rifle. I picked up all the rest of the "innards" for it at the last Del Mar Crossroads show, and ordered the stock from Midway USA, as well as a B Square scope mount and a Leatherwood M-1200 scope. I picked up a pivoting bi-pod and a swivel stud to mount it on from Turners last Sunday, and now I'm just waiting on a Smith muzzle brake from Fulton Armory and it will be done.
Here's my question - - any of you out there have any experience with sighting in an offset mounted scope? When mounted to the B Square mount, the center of the scope tube is offset 1.5" to the left of the bore of the barrel. Geometry being what it is, when the scope is zeroed, the POI and POA along the horizontal plane are only going to intersect at one given distance, and for shorter or longer distances it's going to take either clicks of adjustment or using the mil dots to hold left or right of the desired POI. What do you think would be the best distance at which to zero the scope on the horizontal plane? The scope's built in BDC mechanism calls for zeroing the scope for bullet drop at 300 meters, so I suppose I could set the horizontal zero at 300 meters as well, but since this rifle ought to be good out to 1000 meters, I'm wondering whether it might make more sense to set the horizontal zero further out, maybe around 600 meters.
Ideas, anyone? I mean, ideas other than "Don't do it in the first place!"
Thanks, gang!
As for the rest of you . . . I have a question, but first a little background:
I impulse-bought a 7.62mm DGR re-barreled HRA Garand recevier (otherwise stripped) from Bongos last year, and have been trying ever since to decide what to do with it. I was, at first, thinking of building it into an NRA High Power service rifle, but I have since come to the conclusion that I would spend my time better and more wisely by working on improving my shooting skills with my WOA/Stag AR-15 service rifle rather than trying to learn to shoot the Garand in high power matches as well.
So, I recently saw that Midway USA had Ramline synthetic stocks for Garands on sale for $50, and that gave me the idea to build it up as a tactical/sniper rifle. I picked up all the rest of the "innards" for it at the last Del Mar Crossroads show, and ordered the stock from Midway USA, as well as a B Square scope mount and a Leatherwood M-1200 scope. I picked up a pivoting bi-pod and a swivel stud to mount it on from Turners last Sunday, and now I'm just waiting on a Smith muzzle brake from Fulton Armory and it will be done.
Here's my question - - any of you out there have any experience with sighting in an offset mounted scope? When mounted to the B Square mount, the center of the scope tube is offset 1.5" to the left of the bore of the barrel. Geometry being what it is, when the scope is zeroed, the POI and POA along the horizontal plane are only going to intersect at one given distance, and for shorter or longer distances it's going to take either clicks of adjustment or using the mil dots to hold left or right of the desired POI. What do you think would be the best distance at which to zero the scope on the horizontal plane? The scope's built in BDC mechanism calls for zeroing the scope for bullet drop at 300 meters, so I suppose I could set the horizontal zero at 300 meters as well, but since this rifle ought to be good out to 1000 meters, I'm wondering whether it might make more sense to set the horizontal zero further out, maybe around 600 meters.
Ideas, anyone? I mean, ideas other than "Don't do it in the first place!"
Thanks, gang!
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