Help needed with a Nikon Prostaff 3x9
10-30-2010, 07:03 PM
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Spike
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Help needed with a Nikon Prostaff 3x9
Hi everybody. Tomorrow morning I'm sighting in a Nikon Prostaff 3x9x40. I was looking over the instruction manual and noticed an extra step involving an adjustment on the outer scale ring. After making the basic adjustments (clicks right-left and up-down)for windage and elevataion, the outer scale ring is supposed to be moved to a point where an arrow lines up with a dot. Is anyone familiar with this step on Nikons? We have three of these scope/rifle combos. We've got two out of three shooting to POA, and tomorrow I want to tweek the third rifle in a little more, but I never made any adjustments to the out scale ring on the first two that we sighted in. Can I make adjustments to the outer scale ring on the two that are sighted in without taking them to the range, or did that have to be done after we got them shooting to POA. Here's a copy of the instructions:
http://www.nikonhunting.com/uploads/..._RS_Manual.pdf
If anyone is familiar with these Nikons your help would be greatly appreciated.
http://www.nikonhunting.com/uploads/..._RS_Manual.pdf
If anyone is familiar with these Nikons your help would be greatly appreciated.
10-30-2010, 07:49 PM
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Typical Buck
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Very simple, YES. The outer ring will mover very easily, just use a small screwdriver or nail or such, insert it into the slot on the outer ring and move the scale to where you want it. Very easy to do. Your going to slap yourself on the forhead when you realize how easy this is.
10-30-2010, 08:22 PM
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Spike
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Very simple, YES. The outer ring will mover very easily, just use a small screwdriver or nail or such, insert it into the slot on the outer ring and move the scale to where you want it. Very easy to do. Your going to slap yourself on the forhead when you realize how easy this is.
10-31-2010, 10:34 AM
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Spike
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Goat; Thanks again, that's what we figured that the outer ring was just a reference. In any case we just got back and re sighting all 3 rifles. We sighted in at 50 yards. I know that's a little closer than most typical sighting in distances, but we will be hunting heavy timber in east coast states. I used an online Winchester calculator to give me exact info for the exact Winchester loads that I had, and surprisingly the ballistics from 0 to 300 (zeroed at 50 yards) seemed better for our purposes, compared to the ballistics from 0 to 300 (zeroed at 100 yards). With the first two guns we were able to punch through the same holes or be touching, or at least be real close, then later with the wind and our shoulders taking its toll we got the third rifle in but couldn't do much better than 3 shots a little under one inch groups, but we're confident that will be sufficient for our purposes. Probably won't be winning any match competitions but it should be fine for bringing down our game. Thanks again.
11-02-2010, 11:39 PM
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Spike
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