I recently bought an nc star scope for my sks and I picked up a laser bore sight for fifty bucks. I slid the laser into the end of the barrel to find that my crosshairs were off by at least a foot to the left and tried clicking the windage and elevation to were the red dot would line up in the middle only to find that I wasn't seeing any movement at all. Am I doing something wrong? I thought it was gonna be pretty straight forward but am not seeing any movement at all. Any suggestions? Plz and thnx
noob question for sighting a scope on sks
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84wh1
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You should see your cross hairs move when you adjust your scope.......how much did you turn it? If its a 1/4 MOA turns and you were off by a foot, thats gonna be a significant amount of turns into the scope.
Like 84 said, one or two clicks wouldn't even be noticable to the eye. At what distance are you a foot to the left? If it's a foot at say 100m then just turn it untill it matches. If you're a foot off from 10 feet on your wall, you may have an issue with the mount being off, but just try cranking the scope over untill you run out of turns or you match with the bore sighter.
The other answer may be that your bore sighter is way off. I typically like to use the cartridge bore sighters just so i can eliminate the possibility that the bore sighter is bent.
To check if your bore sighter is off put it in the barrel and look at where the dot is, then rotate it 90 degrees, mark the dot again, and do the same at 180° and 270° and if the four dots aren't close than you know your boresighter is off.
I've never even considered this on any of my bore sighters. Great idea! As for the OP I know this might be a long shot (hah) but are your turret caps fastened on tight? Only reason I ask is because I've seen someone mess with turret adjustments for 20 minutes before realizing the cap was spinning freely on the turret, but tight enough to give the impression of a 'click'.
Don't count on your NC Star crosshairs being in the middle of the scope....mine aren't. My crosshairs are crooked but it did adjust and hold it's 150 yard zero well enough to use it for a couple seasons of 3-gun. I found it helped to shoot my rifle to get the adjustment to dial in when setting up the scope P.O.S. I had more of a headache getting my scope mount to fit rock solid by filing and adding brass to build up spots. So make sure and check your scope mount as some of the SKS mounts are hokey! I suspect some of the NC Star scopes will be worse than others.
Thanx for all the helpful info. I guess I will have to just try cranking it more turns because I clicked it about twelve clicks and didnt notice any change but ran out of time to play with it more. Also I did have to file alot down on my tri mount but was pre warned about over filing and making it too loose. But I noticed it does still have a little bit of play at the front even though I was extremely careful
I have a good boresighter but seldom use it. I put a dot on large piece of paper (like a sheet of newspaper) and fire a shot at 10 to 20 yards. make a gross adjustment and fire again, so bullet strikes a bit low. Then I put up a real target at 50 or 100 yards, secure that my first shot will be on paper.
