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The Ultimate Rifle Tip: Real Time Zeroing with Ryan Cleckner | Long-Range Rifle Shooting

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Former Army Ranger sniper team leader Ryan Cleckner walks us through his process for sighting in a new rifle in real-time and delivers several other shooting tips in the process.

Check out Ryan’s book Long Range Shooting Handbook: A Beginners Guide to Precision Rifle Shooting at

Ryan Cleckner is a best-selling author of the Long Range Shooting Handbook and is currently a practicing firearms attorney [ at Texas Triggers [ courtesy of Colby Donaldson.

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46 COMMENTS

  2. This guy is a straight up armature. Not even gripping the pistol grip right. Js. You're thumb is not supposed to be on the right side of the the firearm (not a gun). Folks in the military who are trained, know not to call the weapon and "Gun."

  4. Ryan…thanks for taking the time to do this. Really helped – Trying to get my hunting rifled dial in. I originally zeroed at 330 yards but I'm rethinking to do the 100 yard zero like you were suggesting.

  7. I'm gonna have to watch this one a few more times to digest all this. Super approachable. Excellent insights. Been shooting all my life, but I've never had anyone explain the right way to do this (other than Kentucky windage).

  19. I purchased his book and I have to admit, there’s a lot of technical information in it. It’s mind numbing and you think you’re never going to get it.

    And then, as I was reading page 251 and he was using an example a 100 yards zero, my subconscious spoke to me and said “90 meters”. For many of you that’s an inconsequential conclusion. But for me, it was a eureka moment. All attributable to Ryan’s simple tips, tricks and pnuemonics.

    Thank You, Ryan.

  21. Extremely dangerous to shoot a bullet without a backstop. Just trusting to luck some boy is not going to be in the woods behind where you are shooting is horrible. Very difficult to believe you used to be a trained sniper. Also silly to say you always reload a bolt gun to get in the habit. It is just something you saw someone else do. It's become popular to show fast reloads on video for no reason. Aside from being politically correct good video.

  22. I remove the bolt and look through the barrel to line it up to the poi, the bullseye of the target. Then I move my scope’s reticle to the bullseye.Then I take a shot to see if I can get it on paper.

  29. Ryan is legendary! …… If your scope is 2" above your bore and your zero is 100 yds then at 25 yds you'll be only 25% of the way up the ramp to 100 so your impact will be 1 1/2" low …. more or less

  33. Wow, a lot of really good information, presented clearly. I prefer MOA adjustments to MIL DOTs. The only thing mil dots would do for me is if I had to estimate ranges using the dots. I've found the most difficult thing new shooters encounter is learning how to get the rifle and bags adjusted quickly and solidly. I can't live without a good spotting scope to save me a lot of walking, and I usually put up several targets, so I'll have a clean one to shoot at when I want. Unless you have a pretty expensive scope (with the possible exception of a SWFA) the internal adjustments will almost never go exactly where you adjust. As you get closer and closer to the center, those tiny adjustments can end up anywhere. Your shooting rig is very accurate!

  35. Just came to binge watch your videos after seeing your “intro” video on Warrior Poets Society. Would love to attend any training you’re a part of, but since I think you said you’re too busy to do a lot of training, here’s some feedback that would really differentiate your videos – not that they aren’t already awesome. When you are editing any video talking about the reticle, MOA/Milrad, or really anything related to the optic, it would be super helpful if you could have an inset picture-in-picture of a camera hooked up to a scope illustrating what you’re talking about on the actual image a shooter would see through the scope. For example in this video you talk about using the mils in the reticle to measure how much to adjust, but without seeing your rifle’s reticle, I can’t really visualize what you’re talking about. if you could maybe clamp the same scope in a vice, pointing at the same point of aim as where you were aiming the rifle, and then show the result of the adjustments you’re making to the rifle’s scope at the exact same time as the video of the reticle clamped in the vice, that would be incredibly useful for both new and experienced shooters. It would also make it super obvious when you’re talking about things like the turrets adjusting the point of impact instead of the reticle, since you could literally show what happens to the point-of-aim vs point-of-impact when you adjust the scope ‘U’ vs ‘D’. Anyway, looking forward to watching the rest of your videos and keep up the good work!

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