Sighting IN your rifle
 

When sighting in your rifle do you have it cranked right up to it's highest power or a lower power and why?

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With a good scope the point of impact should not change as the magnification is adjusted.However,with a new scope,I would test this for myself.I use the highest magnification for sighting in as it allows the most precise aiming.

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my scope on my gun is a 3-9 power, if i am using my rest i use the highest seting, but if i am resting with just my elbows i usually put it to half, and reason being is because it makes it look a little less shakey through the scope. seems to work for me.

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Same with me but mine is a 4x12

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will agree with the above, if i have a solid rest(which if your sighting in i guess it would be dumb not to) then i crank it up as much as i can without affecting the shakiness, but as long as your holding steady then what ever works for you is fine, if you dont have a fixed scope then changing the objective lense should not change your current Zero, have fun with it and good luck as always,

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We are talking about the magnification setting,not parallex.

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After bore sighting, I will take a couple ofshots at 50 yards on the highest magnification power(usually 9-12X). I willthen tweak it at 100 yrds. @at the highest magnification power.

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When shooting at the range I also set my scope to highest power to be more precise...

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I sight in on 3x @ 50 yards, then 6-12x @ 100 yards and farther. Once I am hitting well, I will turn down the power and shoot at 100 and 200 yards. I will try on 4x at 100 yards and around 6 power for 200 yards. Just a personal thing to see if still fairly accurate at a lower power shooting a longer distance, as you never know when a longer shot needs to be attempted in a short time and at a lower power setting. I believe and others I have read have stated, that all scopes with shift POI, as least a little bit when changing power setting.

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With a variable scope, I sight in at the highest power becauseaiming iseasier. BUT, once zeroed, I fire three rounds with the scope set at the power I use most when hunting-4X-just to ensure that changing power does not change POI.....

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I do all my load workups at the highest power. Once I've settled on that, I ALWAYS shoot again at the power I'm Going to hunt with, usually 6X, to check POI. I learned the hard way, many years ago, with a scope that changed POI with magnification change. I hadn't realized it until I missed a nice buck and checked the gun out. Right on @ 12X, 6'' high at 6X. Most of today's scopes seem to have corrected that problem, but I never take a chance anymore.