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Special Interest => Hunting and Shooting => Topic started by: PMC on February 20, 2013, 05:54:51 AM

Title: How to set up a scope the right way
Post by: PMC on February 20, 2013, 05:54:51 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COoXVpGfXQE#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COoXVpGfXQE#ws)

Found this on Nuggets site
Really good info to help set up a scope the right way

Title: Re: How to set up a scope the right way
Post by: Binder on February 20, 2013, 06:47:20 PM

Way we used to set ours up when Roo shooting was perfect.
We had a big old vice on the back of the toyota.

 Walk out in to the scrub 100m or so, put up a sheet of ply. We would bore site the scope, then wack it in the vice aimed at the ply.
Load a round, pull the trigger.
Adjust the scope so the cross hairs were on the bullet hole in the ply.
Less than 5 minutes, always perfect.

Title: Re: How to set up a scope the right way
Post by: bushwacker on February 20, 2013, 08:04:33 PM

Sounds like allot of work  :P

I use 2 small bubble levels when mounting the scope 1 on rifle 1 on scope, Boresight it and usually only quater inch off.

In other words exactly the same way you did it  :-\

Title: Re: How to set up a scope the right way
Post by: PMC on February 21, 2013, 08:18:10 AM

Quote from: Member on February 20, 2013, 06:47:20 PM

Way we used to set ours up when Roo shooting was perfect.
We had a big old vice on the back of the toyota.

 Walk out in to the scrub 100m or so, put up a sheet of ply. We would bore site the scope, then wack it in the vice aimed at the ply.
Load a round, pull the trigger.
Adjust the scope so the cross hairs were on the bullet hole in the ply.
Less than 5 minutes, always perfect.

Still the best and easiest way
Depending on calibre, set the aimpoint an inch to 2 inches high at hundred yards, and it is within 2 inches high or low out to 240 to 280 yards

The link at the top is good for showing what to do first