I just mounted a VX-L scope on my rifle and I used Leupold medium rings. I have adjusted the horizontal to center line but I am unable to adjust the verticle. The adjustment does not go far enough. The rifle is shooting low and I can not adjust it high enough to zero vertically. Are my rings to high?
Scope Adjustment
- Thread starter TAC-ONE
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It's shooting low with the VX-L?? are you shooting at 600 yards
sounds like you need a 20MOA base or burris rings with inserts to tilt your scope down a bit.
I wish i was having that problem. my scope is shooting 8" high at 300yards and i have no more down travel in my scope.
sounds like you need a 20MOA base or burris rings with inserts to tilt your scope down a bit.
I wish i was having that problem. my scope is shooting 8" high at 300yards and i have no more down travel in my scope.
First, eliminate problems like a loose base or some assembly problem. If there is no problem then:
Tac-One, what distance are you sighting in at? Going out on a limb here, but if its quite close, like 25 yards or less, the barrel being beneath the scope, the bullet starts out low, crosses the line of sight traveling upwards around 25 yards, and then starts its arc downward to cross the line of sight again somewhere out further.
If you sight in initially quite close, you may find that close up, you can't get the point of impact up high enough. If so, don't worry, as you move the target further back, the bullet impact point gets higher. At 100 yards it may be over the target and you have to bring it back down. That's the way it is on one of my guns. Zero at 100, but quite low up close, because as you mentioned, the scope sits high.
Tac-One, what distance are you sighting in at? Going out on a limb here, but if its quite close, like 25 yards or less, the barrel being beneath the scope, the bullet starts out low, crosses the line of sight traveling upwards around 25 yards, and then starts its arc downward to cross the line of sight again somewhere out further.
If you sight in initially quite close, you may find that close up, you can't get the point of impact up high enough. If so, don't worry, as you move the target further back, the bullet impact point gets higher. At 100 yards it may be over the target and you have to bring it back down. That's the way it is on one of my guns. Zero at 100, but quite low up close, because as you mentioned, the scope sits high.
The ring height shouldn't make any difference, unless you have one low and one medium or something like that in which case you have bigger problems. You say you centered the windage on the mount screws, did you do this with the adjustment in about the center of the range, or did you adjust it after running out of room in the scope's adjustment? If the windage is maxed out it severely reduces the amount of elevation adjustment available before the erector cell hits the tube. You should have 55-60 minutes of adjustment.
Someone mentioned having the bases backwards, I've seen this done quite often. Don't laugh. (I did, but you should not)
Running out of adjustment at normal ranges is normally a mounting problem. Have you ever had a different scope mounted on the rifle, or is it all new to you?
You say you centered the windage on the mount screws, did you do this with the adjustment in about the center of the range, or did you adjust it after running out of room in the scope's adjustment? If the windage is maxed out it severely reduces the amount of elevation adjustment available before the erector cell hits the tube. You should have 55-60 minutes of adjustment.Someone mentioned having the bases backwards, I've seen this done quite often. Don't laugh. (I did, but you should not)
Running out of adjustment at normal ranges is normally a mounting problem. Have you ever had a different scope mounted on the rifle, or is it all new to you?
