Need Logic Check -- Burris Zee Rings/ TPS 0 MOA Base
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What Silverado said. - dan
i just went through this same thing 4 weeks ago with the burris sig rings and i even phoned burris to get help( let me just say they didnt help!)
any ways i thought that way the guys had mentioned above would work, but it didnt i used up more clicks on my scope to zero it at a 100 yds. then i reversed the way canting the scope up away from the barrel pointing upward and it worked!
if you think of it for a while, if the scope is pointing upwards, you would have to click the elevation downwards to get the scope crosshairs to align with the barrel bore!
if you you did the opposite and cant the the scope downwards you would have to use alot of the elevation clicks to bring it to align with the bore!
needless to say i just about threw the rings through the picture window by the time i got it to work!!
any ways i thought that way the guys had mentioned above would work, but it didnt i used up more clicks on my scope to zero it at a 100 yds. then i reversed the way canting the scope up away from the barrel pointing upward and it worked!
if you think of it for a while, if the scope is pointing upwards, you would have to click the elevation downwards to get the scope crosshairs to align with the barrel bore!
if you you did the opposite and cant the the scope downwards you would have to use alot of the elevation clicks to bring it to align with the bore!
needless to say i just about threw the rings through the picture window by the time i got it to work!!
If you're familiar with iron sights, you'd RAISE the rear sight in order to shoot higher. With a scope, it's not so intuitive.
Follow me here. Let's say your scope is set at the centre of it's elevation range, and mounted on a flat base. If for example your scope has 100 clicks of total elevation adjustment, that would be 50 in each direction from centre; 50 down, and 50 up. You set your rig on a bench, and look through the scope; bingo, the crosshair is dead on at 100. Let's say you previously sighted in at that range, so the bullet hits where the crosshair is.
Now, you set the scope with the offset rings or base so it's pointed downward in relation to the barrel. Remember that you haven't touched your dials at all - yet. When you look through the scope again, you're looking at the ground, or the bottom of the target. Now to get it back on target, you have to raise the barrel of the rifle upwards until the crosshair is on target. If you fire now, the bullet will fly WAY HIGH, because the rifle is pointed up in the air as compared with before you changed the mounts. In order to re-zero the rifle, you have to crank your elevation dial WAY DOWN. In this example, let's pretend you have to come down 30 clicks to get back in the bullseye.
Now you're back to zero at 100, but you have way more clicks available (now 80, rather than 50) in the upward direction before you run out; that extra adjustment range comes from canting the scope with the mount or rings.
Get it? Got it? Good. Go shoot and have fun.
Follow me here. Let's say your scope is set at the centre of it's elevation range, and mounted on a flat base. If for example your scope has 100 clicks of total elevation adjustment, that would be 50 in each direction from centre; 50 down, and 50 up. You set your rig on a bench, and look through the scope; bingo, the crosshair is dead on at 100. Let's say you previously sighted in at that range, so the bullet hits where the crosshair is.
Now, you set the scope with the offset rings or base so it's pointed downward in relation to the barrel. Remember that you haven't touched your dials at all - yet. When you look through the scope again, you're looking at the ground, or the bottom of the target. Now to get it back on target, you have to raise the barrel of the rifle upwards until the crosshair is on target. If you fire now, the bullet will fly WAY HIGH, because the rifle is pointed up in the air as compared with before you changed the mounts. In order to re-zero the rifle, you have to crank your elevation dial WAY DOWN. In this example, let's pretend you have to come down 30 clicks to get back in the bullseye.
Now you're back to zero at 100, but you have way more clicks available (now 80, rather than 50) in the upward direction before you run out; that extra adjustment range comes from canting the scope with the mount or rings.
Get it? Got it? Good. Go shoot and have fun.
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