Friday, September 19, 2014

sighting a new scope in 2 shots

This is the time of the year alot of people will buy a new scope and blow alot of money and ammo trying to sight a new scope.
 My way will let you fire 2 shots and get it in the bullseye.
First we will be talking about a bolt action rifle or any rifle that you can see thru the bore..
This is done at a distance of 25 yards
    The first thing you will need is one of those mounts that you can lay your rifle in because you can not hold it still enough even with sandbags..I;m to cheap to spend alot of money on one so I looked in a catalog and made mine out of wood.I made sure and went a little extra and put felcro straps to hold front of gun down and felcro straps on butt.Best thing I ever did.Took the recoil completly away..
    OK now you have the rifle down tight so take the bolt out  look thru the barrel and move the rifle till you see your target paper bullseye.This is what they call boresighting .Personally I use a white paper plate and draw a bulleye in it.--Now that you see the target peek up and see where the scope is looking.
  Very carefully adjust the cross hairs until it looks on target.
Now if you have done it right you can fire your first shot and it should at least hit the paper plate or whatever you choose.
   OK the first shot barely hits the paper lets say 6 inches high and 4 inches right.
Whoa you say not even close...don;t worry you are fine.
  Now again put those cross hairs exactly where you had them the first shot.
Do you see where the first shot hit ---I am sure you do.
Now very carefully without touching the rifle crank those adjustments up to where the shot hit and then over to dead on that bullet hole
If you did it right- then now aim the rifle for the bullseye and shoot your second shot and you will be right on the bullseye or very close.Look how much ammo is saved.Now maybe 1 or2 shots to fine tune it. That gismo that holds your rifle is the key to a really straight shootin gun..
  You may want to get a big piece of cardboard to put your target on and even if you miss it by a foot as long as you can see the bullet hole this will still work.
   Now I will say it again .You want to do this at a distance of 25 yards.This will put most high powered rifles 1 inch high at 100 yards..

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