Problems sighting in

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I bought a brand new Ruger Hawkeye Stainless in .260 Rem and I topped it off with a Vari-X III 1.75 x 6. Today, I went to sight it in and found that it was hitting quite a bit to the left at 50 yards. I dialed the windage knob 2 complete revolutions to the right until it maxed out and I'm still hitting about 2 inches to the left of the bullseye at 50 yards. What do I do now?
 
Take the scope off and out of the rings. I would the turn the rings on the rifle (Not sure if you are using the straight ringmount) and see what happens. For example: if the nut/screw to torque the rings onto the base/rifle were on the left, they should now be on the right.

I am not sure if you will be able to do that if you are using the Ruger ringmounts as I believe they only fit one way but if you are using any other system, this might work. You may also have a faulty scope.
 
Slooshark1 said:
I bought a brand new Ruger Hawkeye Stainless in .260 Rem and I topped it off with a Vari-X III 1.75 x 6. Today, I went to sight it in and found that it was hitting quite a bit to the left at 50 yards. I dialed the windage knob 2 complete revolutions to the right until it maxed out and I'm still hitting about 2 inches to the left of the bullseye at 50 yards. What do I do now?
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I know this is no help to you but I had one set of Ruger supplied rings a couple years ago the were too far off to line up fore and aft so I replaced them with Warne rings, problem solved.
After that problem I had another set of Ruger rings with one ring that was egg-shaped and since I didn't have any scopes with an egg-shaped tube I sent them back to Ruger as well..... Ruger has yet to replace either set..
 
Maybe check to see that the scope is sitting centerline to the bore. Clamp the rifle level and Look down the bore at a distant object and see if the scope is then aligned with the bore sight object. If it is difficult to tell, purchase a straight $7.00 1" dowel.

Mark the centerline of it (clamp it and use a small level and tape) at a 2' or 3' length. The longer the better actually. Then take two small finishing nails and set them in plumb with the level and dowel. Now insert into your rings. Again, look down the bore to a distant object and compare with the where the dowel points with the two nails lined up. If the rings are properly aligned with the bore, they will both be "seeing" the same object.

If they do, then suspect that the scope may be faulty.
 
Kevan said:
I know this is no help to you but I had one set of Ruger supplied rings a couple years ago the were too far off to line up fore and aft so I replaced them with Warne rings, problem solved.
After that problem I had another set of Ruger rings with one ring that was egg-shaped and since I didn't have any scopes with an egg-shaped tube I sent them back to Ruger as well..... Ruger has yet to replace either set..
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back in the day when I spent a lot of time at P&D, with every set of Ruger rings that were to be installed on ruger rifles, we reamed out every set of their rings by hand of course. You'd almost want to beg the customer to look at another brand of ring. Love those Burris Zee rings. FS
 
I've had 2 sets that would not zero for windage. You can use a shim on the side, contact ruger and they exchange them for you (at least they did) for another set that will hopefully better or buy the Leupold ring mount . With the Leupold's you should be able to get the scope closer to the line of sight.
Neil
 
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