You need to get the right bases. Then if you want to leave your optic sights on the rifle, get some Warne QD rings and mount the scope in them. They are a great set of rings. Then you can take the scope on and off if you should need the open sights. And it makes it easer to clean around the scope bases and scope itself.

Start your sight in process at 13 yards. Take a cardboard box and cut a V on each of the two ends to rest your rifle in. Looking through the bore at a dot on a sheet of paper, move the cross hairs of the scope to the dot. This will put you on paper.

Then shoot three rounds and adjust your scope. After you have it on at 13 yards move back to 25 yards, then to 50 and so fourth. That is how I do my scopes.