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helpful hints for Riflescope/Target Scope

FOCUSING

1. Hold the scope about 2 to 3 inches (6 to 10 cm) away from your eye and look through the eye bell against a flat and clear background such as the sky or a white wall.

ATTENTION: LOOKING INTO THE SUN CAN CAUSE SERIOUS INJURIES TO YOUR EYES.

2. Should your reticle be blurred, loosen the eye bell lockingring and turn the eyepiece in either direction a few times. If the focus has not improved turn into the other direction until the reticle appears in sharp focus and then tighten the lockingring.
3. If your model is equipped with a fast-focus-eyebell (i.e. there is no lockingring) you will only need to turn the eyeball in or out of adjustment.

MOUNTING

ATTENTION: Make sure the gun is not loaded and use safe gun handling procedures at all times

1. Make sure you have the appropriate ring mounts for your rifle, if not your firearms dealer will assist you.
2. Separate the two ring mounts and set the scope into the cradles of the lower ring mounts and turn the screws just enough to hold them together. Push the scope forward as much as possible whilst ensuring at the same time that the elevation turret is on top.
3. Shoulder or bench rest the rifle and pull the scope back forward until you see the full field of view. Adjust the altitude of the reticle and align the vertical and horizontal components with the bore axis.
4. Once you have positioned the scope and aligned the reticle with the bore axis, tighten the ring tops.

ATTENTION: Do not over-tighten as this could damage the scope, affecting the performance or even make it useless. You should ensure that on both sides of the rings there is always a slight gap of the same diameter.

PRE ZEROING

ATTENTION: Make sure the gun is not loaded and use safe gun handling procedures at all times

1. The pre-zeroing can be done with a scope guide or a shot shaver, which can be obtained from your firearms dealer.
2. If your scope is fitted with a parallax adjustment, rotate the parallax ring to the 46m – 50 yards position and set the zoom to mid power.
3. Rest the rifle on a steady support and remove the windage and the elevation cap. Look through the bore from the breech at a 46m – 50yards target and move the butt stock to centre the target in the bore.
4. For actions other than bolting, you will need a small mirror that you position in the ejection port so you can see through the bore.
5. Without moving the rifle, adjust the windage and the elevationscrews to centre the reticle on the target. To raise the point of impact, turn the elevationscrews anti-clockwise. To shift to the left, turn the windagescrews clockwise
6. If large amount of windage and elevation adjustments are needed to bore sight, make about ½ of the required elevation change, then about ½ of the windage. To finish, apply the balance of elevation correction and the windage.


NOTE: If you have windage adjustable rings, use them to adjust the windage and make the final adjustments with the scope´s built-in system.

NOTE FOR AIRGUN SCOPES: Remove the protective caps and rotate the finger adjustable windage and elevation drums to centre the reticle.

ZEROING

ATTENTION: All shooting should be done in an approved range and in a safe area, where eye and ear protection is used.

DANGER: If you used a bore sighting collimator or another bore obstructing device, remove it before proceeding. If the barrel has been drilled for a mount, ensure that the screws do not obstruct the bore. Do not fire live or even band ammunition with an obstructed barrel as any obstruction can cause serious damage to the gun and injury to yourself and other people around you.

1. Set zoom models to the highest power, parallax correctable models to 100yards / 91.4 meters and observe the bullets hit the target. Adjust the windage- and elevationscrews as needed to correct the aim

NOTE: Each click adjustment changes the fireline of the bullets by the amount shown on the chart below.



WINDAGE / ELEVATION
(inches per click or movement)
50 yds 1/8 inch
100 yds ¼ inch
200 yds ½ inch
300 yds ¾ inch

2. After zeroing your gun, replace the windage and elevation caps.

NOTE FOR AIRGUN OR TARGET SCOPES:

1. After zeroing you may use the appropriate tool to remove the windage and elevation drums and then reposition so that zero(“0”) lines with the indicator line on the spindle. For further windage adjustments count the clicks from the zero point on the windage and elevation drums.
2. For target scopes you may adjust the windage and elevation settings until the bullet hits the centre of the target.
3. For future reference you should make a chart of the correct windage and elevation settings for each load and the range you shoot.

NOTE: Climatic conditions, such as rain and wind, as well as altitude can affect the trajectory and you might find it useful to note some sight deviations in the settings from one shooting to the next.

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