Dumb scope question when sighting in

tangospike99 said:
Why do most scopes go the opposite when you sight them in. At least it seams that way. Might be a dumb question
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Are you referring to an optical boresighter, or to actually firing the rifle?
With an instrument like a Bushnell, apparent movement is reversed.
If you are on a range, and you move the dial in the R direction, your group had better shift to the R.
If you are using a bore sighter, you are not sighting in the rifle. You will probably be able to get your first actual shots close, but don't expect that the rifle will be sighted in until you actually fire it.
 
senior said:
I've seen that :rolleyes:
Young guy was invited to sight in new rifle at our private range, showed up, fired a couple & looked at scope adjustment & asked whether to move dial R or L to raise his shots :slap:
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That's not an altogether crazy way to do it. On a couple of guns I've had that would sometimes experience ejection problems due to the placement of the windage dial on a low-mounted scope, I've rotated the scope 90 degrees counterclockwise. This puts the windage dial on top, where it is now used for elevation changes ("right" is now "up"), and the elevation dial on the left side, where it is now used for windage changes ("down" is now "right"). It can be a bit confusing at first, but it works very well.

Simmons or Weaver used to make a scope designed this way, i.e. with adjustment dials on the top and left sides. I remember thinking at the time that it was a great idea and would take off big time.

Oh, well.....:rolleyes:

John
 
jjohnwm said:
That's not an altogether crazy way to do it. On a couple of guns I've had that would sometimes experience ejection problems due to the placement of the windage dial on a low-mounted scope, I've rotated the scope 90 degrees counterclockwise. This puts the windage dial on top, where it is now used for elevation changes ("right" is now "up"), and the elevation dial on the left side, where it is now used for windage changes ("down" is now "right"). It can be a bit confusing at first, but it works very well.
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Makes a BDC-style reticle ####e for anything but a L-R crosswind though!
 
BigUglyMan said:
Makes a BDC-style reticle s**te for anything but a L-R crosswind though!
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Totally true! I've just started playing around with my first ballistic-plex reticle and really like it. I never stopped to think how my earlier brainstorm LOL would screw up that feature!:redface:
 
Quote: "That's not an altogether crazy way to do it. On a couple of guns I've had that would sometimes experience ejection problems due to the placement of the windage dial on a low-mounted scope, I've rotated the scope 90 degrees counterclockwise. This puts the windage dial on top, where it is now used for elevation changes ("right" is now "up"), and the elevation dial on the left side, where it is now used for windage changes ("down" is now "right"). It can be a bit confusing at first, but it works very well.'

That is exactly the problem I had with the target scope on a Rem 788. The empties would eject up to the knob and then drop back into the action. I rotated the scope. The 30mm tube had enough wind adjustment to still work at long range as elevation.

But I have 120 minutes of wind adjustmnet.

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