Sighting in a scope.

Bcev · 06-19-2007, 04:03 PM

I'm very new to ML. Besides bringing it in to get bore sighted is there easy way to sight in a scope at the range? At 100 yards not sure where I was hitting, but it was no where around the target this much I know. Should I try at 50 yards first.

gleason.chapman · 06-19-2007, 04:14 PM

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ORIGINAL: Bcev

I'm very new to ML. Besides bringing it in to get bore sighted is there easy way to sight in a scope at the range? At 100 yards not sure where I was hitting, but it was no where around the target this much I know. Should I try at 50 yards first.

I sight in dead on at 25 yards with a ML Scope.Get windage at that range. then move back to 50 and get it hitting about 2" high at 50, then go back to 100 and get it sighted in dead on, or some like to sight in 3" high at 100 yards.This effectivelyis like shooting thru a 6" pipedead on from 0 to say 125 yards or so with most 300g bullets in a ML with a 100g charge. Chap Gleason

frontier gander · 06-19-2007, 04:17 PM

I sighted my scope in 1" high was a couple inches low at 100. 385 grain bullet drops pretty good from 25-100. But now its 1" high @100. Just start at 25, put an inch high and it will be very close.

cayugad · 06-19-2007, 04:32 PM

If you're not bore sighted ... what I do before I go to the range is in the house, set the rifle up in a gun vice. If you have no gun vice, a simple large cardboard box with a V cut in the two opposite sides will work. Set that up where you can look through the barrel with the breech plug removed, and sight it on something about 13 yards away. Now make sure the scope is good and solid. Now adjust that scope to the same point you were sighting through the bore on with the cross hairs.

Now out on the range start out at 13 yards. Tune it in at that distance. Then move back to 25 yards, and then 50, and finally 100 yards. This way you also get to see how the rifle acts with the projectile you have at the different distances.

If this is a traditional rifle, the same thing applies. If you are not mounting see through mounts and of course can't look through the barrel, look along the dominant eye side of the barrel to a point 13 yards away, with the dominant eye. Move the cross hairs again, to the same spot. Then go to the range and shoot at 13 yards, and make adjustments there.

This will help cut down on the number of bullets you need to shoot to sight the rifle in. Also when working up the scope loads, I like to swab the barrel between shots. Also use a large piece of paper when you sight in. This will give you a chance to better spot your hits. Start close, and then move back. You will waste less bullets that way.

Good luck with your rifle.

Bcev · 06-19-2007, 05:52 PM

Thanks for the advice. I will give it a try this coming weekend and let you know the results.

falcon · 06-20-2007, 05:53 AM

Easiest way to boresight any gun is with a laser bore sighter. It does not have to be the expensive boresighter. The el cheapo from Wal-Mart works well. We have a 3/4 inch round dot target on the wall in another room 25 feet away and i just boresight it on that with the laser.At the range andthe bullethasalway**** on the50 yard target.

oldrookie · 06-20-2007, 08:45 AM

cayugad....the bullets saved is directly proportionate to the quality of the shooter....ha ha. I still blew through a lot of loads getting that scope sweaked. Reminder......its not the arrow its the Indian.

cayugad · 06-20-2007, 08:54 AM

old rookie.. I have to remember that one..

Red Lion · 06-20-2007, 09:09 AM

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ORIGINAL: cayugad

If you're not bore sighted ... what I do before I go to the range is in the house, set the rifle up in a gun vice. If you have no gun vice, a simple large cardboard box with a V cut in the two opposite sides will work. Set that up where you can look through the barrel with the breech plug removed, and sight it on something about 13 yards away. Now make sure the scope is good and solid. Now adjust that scope to the same point you were sighting through the bore on with the cross hairs.

Now out on the range start out at 13 yards. Tune it in at that distance. Then move back to 25 yards, and then 50, and finally 100 yards. This way you also get to see how the rifle acts with the projectile you have at the different distances.

I do pretty much the same thing and have never used a laser boresighter.