Savage 17hmr wont line up with scope!

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I bought a Savage 93R17 BTVS and I have it paired with a BSA Sweet 17.
I have tried three types of rings to get this thing to boresight and the sighting grid is so low it doesn't show up in the scope, even on 3 power!

Anybody else experience this? Shiming it isn't even an option as it will put the scope and such a drastic angle that tightening the rings will damage it. Actually its so drastic that you cant get the rings to close.

I bought the rifle second hand but never fired. I had to stand 25 feet from the target to get it on the cardboard. I would guess its shooting four feet low at 50 yards and thats being conservative. I'm going to try another scope out of curiosty but I'm wondering if its the gun.


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I'd look for some anomoly in both the scope and bases. You could lay a straight edge along the open rings and see how parallel it is to the barrel by bore sighting along both the barrel and straight edge at a small object off in the distance. Or even better, a yardstick so you can measure inches at 100 yards.
 
Switch the bases. The action may be sloped and require different thicknesses of bases. Were the bases the correct ones for the gun? Bases are not all the same for all applications
 
The bases are the same stainless ones that came with the gun. I just tried a different scope and its better but still too low. Its a shotgun scope so the field of view is better but I don't want that for long range. The bases are the same in measurement front and back. This is the same scope I had on my 597 17hmr and it performed perfectly.
 
same rifle and scope on mine, have no issues like the one you describe

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hey if your close, I can help you out if need be....
 
Keep in mind that any testing you do on the bench, the barrel is a couple of inches below the centre line of the scope. The two don't converge until around 25 yards out.
 
Those pics are my set up including the rings, identically! I tried this set up at 50 yards aswell with nothing on the paper at all. Then I went back to 25 yards on the bench with nothing on the paper then I walked up on it and tried it just to see if its high or low....its real low. There isn't enough elevation in the scope to get me where I got to go.
 
perhaps your boresighter (sp) is off ? perhaps you can turn the turret all the way one way then bring it back half and see if you can sight in.

I can't remember if I used a boresighter, or was I looking through the barrel and lined it up that way
 
I have a similar issue with mine. I shot way low and to the left. With my scope turned all the way to the stops of both low and left I can get on the paper. Caution! I messed up a cheep scope doing this seems when you turn them all the way to the stops sometimes they don't come back.
 
I'm going to start all over with the assembly and try it again, shims if needed.
Back to the range tomorrow and give it another go. If any of you guys know of anyone with one of these set ups and the same problem, point me that way and I 'll read up on it.

Thanks guys.
 
Take the bolt out and aim the bore at a street sign or any object out the window with the rifle rested. Then line the scope up to what you see thru the bore.

Perhaps u turned the adjusting knobs for the crosshair backward ? The direction indicates where u want the shot to go, not the cross hair. If it says R clock wise, it means the shot will go right if turning clock wise.

Couple of my friend's and I each have one of these and non of us have any problem.
 
RUSTSPOT said:
Take the bolt out and aim the bore at a street sign or any object out the window with the rifle rested. Then line the scope up to what you see thru the bore.

Perhaps u turned the adjusting knobs for the crosshair backward ? The direction indicates where u want the shot to go, not the cross hair. If it says R clock wise, it means the shot will go right if turning clock wise.

Couple of my friend's and I each have one of these and non of us have any problem.
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x2............never owned or needed a boresighter and this above method has worked for decades.
 
Not speaking from experience but maybe the base could be shimmed on the action as apposed to the scope being shimmed in the rings, it will take very little shimming to achieve what you need and thus the old mounting screw should still be long enough.

Another thing to try is to make sure that the rings are in line with themselves. Take a piece of wood dowelling and put some fine sand paper on it and rub it through the rings to see if there are any burrs on the edges. A small burr can throw off a scope a lot. I had to do this with my rings on my 7mm.

hope you get it figured out, nothing more frusterating than not being able to shoot your new toy.
 
I seem to recall reading about a few savages that had the holes drilled slightly off fromt the factory. Could be the issue, definately try the looking down the bore for sighting works for me...

Good luck.
 
I did what was suggested by sighting through the bore with the gun in a bench vise. Had to shim scope base and rear scope ring to gain elevation for the turret but I've got it lined up with the bore and scope with room in the turret for adjustment. Now out to the range and put it to the test.

Thanks, guys, for all your help.
 
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