Help, out of windage adjustment

Its got to be a mounting issue turn your mounts Front to Back see if your POI changes to 5 inches left

let me get this straight you have a scope mounted and you have no issues with it, so you change the rings on a system that is already proven WHY would you do that

so I guess you have 2 choices, chase your tail with the new rings or put the other one back on

and there is one thing this forum or any other can do and that is fix your problem because we can't see it, hold it, touch it, or do any RD work

we can guess and guess and guess

let me get this straight you have a scope mounted and you have no issues with it, so you change the rings on a system that is already proven WHY would you do that

so I guess you have 2 choices, chase your tail with the new rings or put the other one back on

and there is one thing this forum or any other can do and that is fix your problem because we can't see it, hold it, touch it, or do any RD work

we can guess and guess and guess

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Dude ever heard of what comes around goes around hope someone is as helpful when you call out 



@saxon57 it sounds like to me your riding the ridge on one of your dovetails flip your mounts rings if your poi moves then you have a defective mount 

I am assuming it is an 11mm mount correct? 

Some other things that have happened to me before 

some rings have that anti-slip tape that will glue itself to the scope, Missed a piece on a remount that resulted in a double on the bottom this usually only results in a poi shift in elevation though.

I did have a total brain fart once and mounted a scope wrong side up that is to say elevation was windage and windage elevation 

 

Shalom Willie

Got to agree with you … "what goes around comes around" or as Yeshua said, "What you sow, you shall reap"

Silly me ... and I thought the whole idea of this forum was to share experiences and knowledge, what works and what doesn't work, to lend a helping hand, to build people up and not tear them down, to offer encouragement and edification, make friends etc.

Still trying to picture that TBF by Saxon 

Biz hundert un tsvantsik

May you live to be 120 

John

lap your scope rings.

I'm reading where you said the Leupold and previous rings on that gun had no issues. You just changed to the High Sport Match.

As it is now... the scope itself does not respond to major adjustments, and it is shooting 5" to the right.

I'd guess the new rings or how it is mounted is the problem.

However... one more thing to consider is that some scopes will not focus at 10 yards. I have a few Leupold scopes and none are suitable for close range. The parallax/focus is fixed and set for beyond 50 yards. Yours may be different. However, if at 10 yards your target is really not in focus I would assume all sorts of POI problems will occur.

Good Luck, and let us know how it turns out.

@saxon57 

What turned out to be the issue? 

I've used aluminum tape to use as "shims" on the rail to move the point of aim. Cut small pieces, then trim after applying to make sure all I was doing was shimming the windage, not the elevation. This was done on a red dot sight, no height spacing blocks. Just an apparent problem with the guns rail positioning, as I had this sight on another gun...with no sighting problems.. 

Mike

Have you tried turning the scope mounts around say that the rail tightening screws are on the right side reverse the scope mount so that the tightening screws are on the left side do one at a time might look funny but who cares if it works?

If the scope is stuck as you appear to say, slap it a couple times, might shake it loose. Stupid question do you have the vertical adjustment up and horizontal on the right side? What did you find?

Saxon, by chance before you even mounted the scope to any set of rings, did you check to make sure it was set optically centered from the factory? Just because it’s new doesn’t mean it’s set exactly center. Check that, and if you are unsure, ask the question on how to. We shall all be glad to help.

Saxon57, I have had this a couple times and it's too bad you ordered another set of rings. I thought Sportmatch were good rings? But I started using the FX no limit rings and with all their adjustability I have never had another ring issue. I dont use any other rings now. 

I have noticed that some of the score mounts are listed as for 10 to 11 mm and some are 12 to 13 mm so is there a difference to the width of the scope rail machined on the top of the receivers If so then if you tried to mount a 11 mm scope mount on a 13 mm rail there is some misalignment right there about .080 more of less which is a lot even given half of that is a lot for some scopes that do not have much MOA adjustment.

Out of curiosity I measured a couple of modern rails namely Daystate rifles of recent manufacture and they measure about 12.5mm as close as I can get with scopes mounted not exact but close. I do think that some of the older guns were made with 10 to 11mm rails? I am relatively new to this air rifle game but have spent nearly 60 years with powder burners mounting scopes and sights and burning up no telling how much powder and lead and often having problems like this. Sometimes changing rings, mounts, scopes, sometimes the rings do not align with each other, lap the rings, seen mounting holes drilled out of alignment, sometimes the mounting holes are not even on the top of action, canted! Just curious what other people think?