ORIGINAL: nyorange
Whether you zeroed it beforehand wouldn't make a hair of a difference.Its basically a non issue. Your scope as mounted has a certain range of adjustment and you are in that range or out of it regardless of where in that range you startfrom. Think about it.
Now that I went out and did it your answer made most sense.
Make sure my rings are seated and solid (Ruger rings are made forslots on Ruger rifles). Zero the windage screws on the rings, which are easily visible. Make sure the scope is well seated in the rings. Boresight it and start shooting. If I zeroed the scope first, I would just dial it to wherever it boresighted anyway. And if I run out of adjustment, I'm either in a hurricane or I'm trying to zero at 2000 yards.
Now it seems kinda like adumb question. Thanks