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:devil:Hey MD you have to sit him down and talk at his level.

Buddy of mine just never got it . Always burning 10-15 boxes of slugs sighting in . Flinch all gun shy up he would come crying to me to sight his gun in . 5 shells or less and im on .... all gun season he whacks and stacks deer . Following season same problem .. year after year . Finally i make him go shooting with me and the first thing he does lays the gon on the bag and uses his free hand under the stock to support the gun . No anchor on the forend ... guns jumping up and right ... moves scope all over the place. "hey Dumbass" hold the gun down stupid!!!!" ... no problems ever since.

I have sighted in a couple scoped rifles for friends and while the person was not "dead nuts" on.. they were very close. Close enough that they could have hunted out to 100 yards with the rifle.

Open sights.. for some reason I shoot to the right when I shoot open sights. Others will shoot fine. But that I think is the way I hold the rifle.

Just did some reading and the low power scopes have very little Parralex. Even the cheaper scopes have very little and so im going to stick with my " Sight it in with your eyes" and then it will be on.

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Originally Posted by MountainDevil54 (Post 3880949)

He sighted in my nephews .243 Scout on Wednesday afternoon for the Thursday thanksgiving day hunt. My nephew pulls the trigger, BANG! Right over his back.

Oh this fudgin gun aint holding on track! Blah blah blah. After i gave him an ear full and told him you CAN'T sight in a gun and then just hand it over to someone else and say its dead on, because it won't be! Ohhhh no no, Yes you can! The scopes Parallex allows you to do it out to 100 yards and it will still be the same.

So we get home,i throw the lead sled in the truck and head over to the NRA by myself with the gun, set up a 100 yard target, Boom! 7-8" high but dead center. Reload and take another shot, 3/4" group.

He has 20-20 vision in his scope eye, my nephew and i both wear glasses and still have trouble seeing. He just doesn't get that different eye sight is going to cause the scope to be off!

PO'd me that he did the sight in and didn't let my nephew take any shots to make sure it was actually on for him!

Easy enough to say that once the gun was on sight i packed up and headed home rather than aggravate myself more than i need to.

And to top it off! Yes it gets WORSE. We're in the field hunting and my 16yo nephew brough some hearing muffs to wear when hes shooting because his ears are sensitive. Bobby! What are you doing with those? You're a man! Those will just get in your way. Its unethical to wear those because you can't hear what anyone is saying to you!

Yeah? Kinda like the pot calling the kettle black especially when it comes to sighting in a scope for THAT persons eyes rather than, "the scopes parralex will let any shooter be on no matter what".

Sorry boys, had to vent BIG time. I can't stand hard heads like this guy who preaches crap he doesn't know anything about.

Hes taking my nephew out and letting him borrow his .270 which isn't sighted in for his eyes either.

Several weeks ago one of my friends who happens to wear glasses, was sighting in his .270 rifle and asked me if i would like to shoot it.i do not wear glasses and the POI which was set up for him was definately different when i shot the rifle. it shot high when i shot it compared to when he did.it absolutely makes a difference!

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Originally Posted by nysmoker (Post 3881183)

So brenchrest shooters and snipers are and have been wrong with doing as such with the rabbit ear bag under the stock for years and no hand holding the forearm?
The bag/hand under stock is to keep it from recoiling off a hard surface upon the shot and to steady the crosshairs letting the rifle to recoil freely upon the shot.
NO human alive can hold a weapon stopping recoil. You are going to get a slight movement of some nature. The hand along the forearm is to guide the forearm to target, not hold it down.