I also had a factory bore sighted rifle but since I changed the scope before even firing the rifle it was a waste of time for them. What I did was lay down on my sundeck and looked through the barrel at a neighbors light bulb and dialed in the scope. I then took it into the mountains to shoot and couldn't hit paper if I tried. I then took a pallet sized sheet of cardboard and taped a target on center of it. Fired and found I was 3 inches to the right of the paper and 2 inches low. I then aimed the rifle at the X and changed the scope dials to where the bullet impacted. Works great. Just need that large sheet of cardboard.
Bore sighting @ Wholesale Sports
- Thread starter Boomer74
- Start date
Quick question for the optics gurus, regarding procedures.
If I install a scope & rings on my rifle, setting my desired eye-relief & leveling the crosshairs, then tightening everything down...
Is there any reason, on Gods' green earth, why the scope should be moved to bore-sight the rifle/scope ?
* I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but this is leading into something...
What do you mean by 'move', are you talking physically relocating/rotating it in the rings, or adjusting the windage/elevation?
yep.... i agree. i usually dont even bother stopping at Cabella's in WPG anymore for reloading supplies. I go straight to WSS. ;-( I mean, i cant even get 40 or 55 gn .224 bullets there 90% of the time! (Cabella's)!! I dunno... seems since they moved, theyve really crapped the bed. And on another note, WSS did me good when i bought a bad Marlin .17 HMR which was tumbling rounds out of the bbl.... but that was when Dennis was still there. Anyways, its usually a mostly wasted trip into the city when i need to go! nuts!
- Location
- Manitoulin Island
A gun shop installed a new scope on a rifle for me and I took it out to a buddy's bush range. We both put up targets side by side and he told me to go first. I hit his target. Now I have zero faith in the mounted on rod in muzzle bore-sighters. I have a little thermostat housing on a post outside my basement door that controls my heated water line in the lake. I stick a golf tee on it and with my bolt action rifle in a rest inside the basement on a table, bore-sight through the bore at the golf tee and adjust the scope. Usually shoot it at 50 yard range first. Doesn't work for my Remington 760 though. I think I will stick to that. People might look at me funny sighting in at a stop-sign down the road. "No officer, I'm not trying to kill anyone, just bore sighting my rifle. See, there's no bolt in it."
Mystic Precision
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Summerland, BC
For anyone who wants to know, they moved the scope back 1" and moved one of the rings on the rail...
I put it back the way I had it after I got home, but was pretty p!ssed when I opened the case & saw what they did.
Look at it this way..... the scope was set up properly for the PERSON doing the bore sighting. They likely thought they did a great job and felt your initial set up didn't fit them at all.
Now you had to go mess all that up
Setting up a scope is a very personal thing. I get asked all the time to "mount a scope".... my answer continues to be NO !!!!
I can't fit your scope anymore then I can fit your shoes by using my feet.
Jerry
