Best way to sight in a new scope?
- Thread starter madprofab
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Start close. Make sure that the windage and elevation are not in the extremities. Small adjustments at the time if you don't want to mess with click calculations and gradually start moving back.
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Good advice to start close. From a good rest fire one shot. Then w/o letting rifle move dial turrets from POA to POI. Done.
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If you have a vise so your gun absolutely does not move and your gun puts them consistently in the same hole, then and only then can you fire a shot and move the recticle to where it lands. I don't have the vise and only one of my guns will put them through the same hole. So I have to do it differently.
I think it's good to understand that 1/4 inch at 100 yards is 1/16 inch at 25 yards. 25 is often where I start. If you have a MIL scope then one click is .36 inches at 100 yards and thus .09 inches - or a bit more than 1/16th - at 25 yards. I shoot two or three shots to be sure where the center is and then click a little less than what I calculate will put me where I want to be. Then I check it and decide if I need to click a little more. Some of my scopes seem to take a shot or two to settle into the new position - another reason to shoot more than one shot when sighting in. I may fire as many as five shots to let the scope settle and be sure I know where it is hitting. I find that if I shoot one shot, click some, shoot another, etc. I end up chasing my POI all over the target. I waste less ammo firing 3-5 shots before adjusting again. I also pay attention to the wind. First choice is to sight in without wind but that isn't always possible. But we don't want to be clicking away based upon wind gusts either.
I think it's good to understand that 1/4 inch at 100 yards is 1/16 inch at 25 yards. 25 is often where I start. If you have a MIL scope then one click is .36 inches at 100 yards and thus .09 inches - or a bit more than 1/16th - at 25 yards. I shoot two or three shots to be sure where the center is and then click a little less than what I calculate will put me where I want to be. Then I check it and decide if I need to click a little more. Some of my scopes seem to take a shot or two to settle into the new position - another reason to shoot more than one shot when sighting in. I may fire as many as five shots to let the scope settle and be sure I know where it is hitting. I find that if I shoot one shot, click some, shoot another, etc. I end up chasing my POI all over the target. I waste less ammo firing 3-5 shots before adjusting again. I also pay attention to the wind. First choice is to sight in without wind but that isn't always possible. But we don't want to be clicking away based upon wind gusts either.
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