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Hello

lurker now poster here. Great forum!

I have recently bought a remington 700 sps varmint with a sightron s tac 3-16x42 scope.

I have roughly boresighted my scope (by eye) and zeroed it at 100y.

Now after resetting the turrets I only have about 6 MOA left on the windage adjustement (and about 16 on elevation).

Is that normal for the windage adjustment? I want to shoot between 100 and 500y and today it was pretty accurate between 100 and 200y

thanks for your help
 
A windage-adjustable rear base would get you back to mid-point of the adjustment range -

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I recently had the same experience setting up a .22. I ended up buying Burris Signature rings, and the Posi-Align kit that Burris sells for the rings. These are inserts that go into the rings and allow you to align the scope to the bore of the rifle using the inserts to shift the scope, up, down, right or left. Once you do the gross adjustments this way, you can fine tune with the turrets. The inserts come in 5, 10, 20 thou increments, and allow you to set up the scope really easily and without torquing or damaging the tube.

My first experience and it was a good one. I set up the reticle first, centered it in the scope body with the turrets, and then used the inserts to get the scope in proper alignment with the barrel, then fine tuned. I was actually almost bang on for windage, and just had to move elevation up to get zeroed.
 
peacefrog said:
I recently had the same experience setting up a .22. I ended up buying Burris Signature rings, and the Posi-Align kit that Burris sells for the rings. These are inserts that go into the rings and allow you to align the scope to the bore of the rifle using the inserts to shift the scope, up, down, right or left. Once you do the gross adjustments this way, you can fine tune with the turrets. The inserts come in 5, 10, 20 thou increments, and allow you to set up the scope really easily and without torquing or damaging the tube.

My first experience and it was a good one. I set up the reticle first, centered it in the scope body with the turrets, and then used the inserts to get the scope in proper alignment with the barrel, then fine tuned. I was actually almost bang on for windage, and just had to move elevation up to get zeroed.
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guys thanks for the feedback

do I have any other option other then buying new stuff? If not, will these burris signature zee rings be suited to shooting long range with 308 cal ?
 
The inserts can be used to adjust WINDAGE right?

the burris rings come with the inserts? I found a set of medium 30mm for 65$ brand new, seems a good price
 
I just dug out what I bought a while ago. You need the separate Pos-Align offset ring insert kit for your Signature Rings to correct the misalignment problem.

Changing your bases to rear windage adjustable type might be a cheaper solution.
 
the 30mm burris zee rings come with 0 and offset inserts. The 1in rings only come with 0 inserts and the offset kit (5, 10, 20)is sold separately.
 
thank you

I will wait for the rings to arrive, the price sound good and upon further googling the 30mm ones seem to come with +-10 inserts
 
I have used the adjustable rear bases before for the same reason. Once on a 300wm, so the varmit caliber should be no problem.

When it comes to long range, i am not at all familiar with the Sightron scope you posted and the reticle. But having the maximum verticle adjustment is very helpful, one of the reasons a lot of people use 20 moa bases. Pretty sure the Sightrons would be very positive and repeatable adjustments, once you have it rock solid.

Someone has to buy the guns built on Monday and when someone is hung over.
 
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The specs for that scope state 70moa w/e adjustment, which is 35moa from center, so not bad but not a lot. Plus that's not truly a 70moa diameter adjustment range, as you use up elevation you reduce your windage range and vice-versa.
A 20moa base would put you back to dead center basically for your elevation (you would have 36moa elevation after zero) and probably gain 10moa extra for your windage.
I run into issues like this all the time when I shoot old commercial and sporter Mausers, if the bases happen to be centered nicely the bore or barrel or receiver threads are off...if the barrel is straight then the bases were mounted off center. I'll usually just run a scope with a lot of adjustment range and call it a day.
Recently mounted a new VX1 on a new AB3, and first shot at 100m was 1" low and 1" left. Never in my life had anything line up that perfectly...the odds that everything from the bore, to the bases, to the rings lining up like that are about the same as getting hit dead center in the ####### with a bolt of lightning....
 
Hitzy said:
The specs for that scope state 70moa w/e adjustment, which is 35moa from center, so not bad but not a lot. Plus that's not truly a 70moa diameter adjustment range, as you use up elevation you reduce your windage range and vice-versa.
A 20moa base would put you back to dead center basically for your elevation (you would have 36moa elevation after zero) and probably gain 10moa extra for your windage.
I run into issues like this all the time when I shoot old commercial and sporter Mausers, if the bases happen to be centered nicely the bore or barrel or receiver threads are off...if the barrel is straight then the bases were mounted off center. I'll usually just run a scope with a lot of adjustment range and call it a day.
Recently mounted a new VX1 on a new AB3, and first shot at 100m was 1" low and 1" left. Never in my life had anything line up that perfectly...the odds that everything from the bore, to the bases, to the rings lining up like that are about the same as getting hit dead center in the ####### with a bolt of lightning....
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do you think the burris signature rings will help solve the issue with the 10 MOA insert? Also, which 20 MOA base would you recommend in order to not break the bank and would the medium rings still fit the rifle with a 20 MOA base?
 
The Burris inserts can correct both. Use the offsets laterally in one ring, vertically in the other.
 
Like Tiriaq said, you can correct for 10/10 w/e with the offsets you are getting, or you can correct 20 windage if you want and leave elevation as is...up to you which way you feel is best.
EGW makes aluminum 20moa bases for around $50-$60, Prophet River carries them.
 
Guys thanks for the help I really appreciate. Awesome.

Will test the rings and see if i need a base. In the meantime i can still shoot too
 
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Did you check if your crosshair was in center of windage and elevation before boresighting ?

I would go to one end of adjustment than count clicks to the other side then you know # of clicks of total adjustment back off to 1/2 and you start with crosshair in center.
Repeat for elevation and crosshair is dead in center both ways before boresighting.
 
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