Adjusting my Leupold scope

gordfry

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I have a Leupold vx-2 3-9x50. I was bore sighting it last night with a laser bore sight tool. I ran out of adjustment room because it was so far out. Is there anything I can do? I tried taking the scope off and remounting it. It is mounted on a tc pro encore.
 
gordfry said:
It is out vertically. Crosshairs were 6" high at 3 yds. Using Burris rings.
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Is that a typo? Six inches at 3 yards???

Either you are using the wrong bases, a mismatched set of rings, or your gun was run over by a truck. At that range the crosshairs should be roughly the same height over the POI as the scope objective is over the bore.

Think about it. A scope must be angled very slightly downwards so that the line of sight intersects the bullet path twice, once quite close and then again at the sight-in distance. Your scope sounds like it is angled significantly upwards rather than down. Check your bases and rings.

John
 
It's normal I think. You try to sight your scope at 3 yards!! As far as I know, a laser boresighting system must be use at 100 yards (or 50 if it's a rimfire)
So, go to the range, put the laser in the bore and point it at a a target 100 yard away. Now you can adjust your scope.
 
Mount the rifle in a vise or sand bags and stand back and look at the rifle/scope set up.
Does the scope look like it is either high or low from one end to the other. I ran into this
with one of my rifles. Wrong scope base for the application.
When I found this out, I did as I explained above. Once I knew what was wrong, I could
see the error on how the scope sat on the rifle. It just didn't look right.
 
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