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How to sight in a riflescope

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A complete step-by-step guide to sighting in your riflescope.

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  1. for a rzr zero stop scope, do you remove the top elevation turret when firing rounds for sighting in?, also if you remove the clicking screws on the base elevation turret to bore sight, are you able to fire rounds without the set screws on the inner elevation turret?

  2. Thank you for the simple and straight forward explanation! This is a confusing topic for me so I really appreciate the step-by-step instructions with explanation. Wishing you all the best!

  3. @vortex optics I am shooting a crossfire 2 what on the dial to move the scope does it have? Is it MOA? Can I reset zero on that scope? What is the math that I do do determine how many clicks to move the scope?

  4. Once you’ve sighted your scope how do you stop it from getting bumped and the turrets from turning etc I’ve always used the older scopes with the old coin style to adjust etc and caps to protect them I’m looking at getting a scope like this once sighted how do I stop it from turning etc ?

  5. Or if you dont want to waste an entire box of ammo. Fire the first shot.. Then put the rifle back in the rest and aim it at the bullseye. Now without moving the rifle adjust the scope reticals until the crossahairs are over the first shot. Your rifle is now sighted with one shot

  6. Vortex Optics, using that rifle, scope & ammo = dead center @ 100 yards
    Then how much bullet drop @ 1 mile (assuming a perfect day) & how click turns up based on 1/4 click?

  7. Wonder what the percentage is of people sighting in correctly versus the " over the hood of my truck" scenario? Or the best one- off hand at 30 yards! Love all my vortex scopes and binoculars. Just great equipment in all price ranges

  8. Another thing i like to do is firmly grip the scope and ensure that it is sturdy, i have a savage 6.5 Crd Mre. And when i zeroed it the first time a few months ago i was excited as it was my first time shooting it but to up the anti, i was loosing daylight fast so i rushed it i used a series of tools to ensure the rings were square on the picatinni rail base (provided by savage) with 20 MOA, I thread locked my ring screws but forgot the BASE ones and needless to say when i tried to confirm my zero yesterday the base was loose and it was pointless shooting so i will try again. Thanks for all your info !

  9. Oh my god…. I never knew that’s what people meant by “resetting the turrets to zero.” I didn’t know you could take the knobs off and do that…..

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