HOW TO INSTALL A SCOPE PROFESSIONALLY - By Vortex Pro-Staff Mike Brake

[Music] hey guys deaf coat-of-arms I'm here with Mike break from break tactical training solution hi good afternoon we got a lot of rifles on the table what's happened yeah I have the pleasure of working with vortex Canada so we're here answering questions and doing some demo demonstrations for the optics and what I wanted to do here was have a rifle that I could demonstrate some putting the optics onto the rifle will it happen to be a customer who just bought a nice vortex optics there and bring it up to the table we'll do it for you so what we want to talk about what the customer is starting up with bases the bases have to be secured to the receiver with a little bit of blue blue loctite getting the correct bases from a reverse system versus a military standard base like that I'm gonna help him with his rings get the rings on there and I'll help him to make sure that the rifle is level the scope is level and then tighten everything down and if we can get to it in the room we'll may be getting a little bit of a bore sight going on here so when it gets to the range he's not gonna be all over the map it's got to be the level I think that's a very very critical thing especially if any shooter wants to stretch the legs out of the firearm platform say beyond 300 meters having it levels very critical that's the main thing I want to focus on with him today my name is a game is precision and it's like anything else in life you're only going to get what you pay for so if you go cheap then expect chief results they call it precision shooting we need things to be precise and in the optics industry and in the firearm industry you want precision it's gonna cost you he was curious about doing some precision shooting he's limited to about 300 meters so the first thing I need to know from the shooter was well what do you what are you willing to spend within the vortex industry you've got the high-end a razor line which in my opinion that's the precision line you're not going to get any better than the razor line middle road is the Viper Series and then just below the Viper series is what the customer is settled down with is the strike eagle the customer is not going to be going out winning the old metal Jesus wants to be as precise as he can within a budget and within the range limitations of 300 meters so we've made a good choice when you're putting this expensive optic on your rifle you've got basically four points of contact that's what we just did for this customer is making sure that those mounts are gonna be properly secured there so they don't move and you've got steel rings on your aluminum optic aluminum rings although there are light they are aluminum and not as strong we want to make sure we have as much contact around the optic as possible you can get some rings that are maybe a third of that width so there you're limiting the amount of contact on the optic he's made a good choice here and you went with a nice wide ring steel rings it's gonna have a lot of bearing surface around the scope too and I'll let him know about when you tighten down these screws it's very very important most manufacturers don't provide the customer with how many inch pounds to put on to the mounts onto the Rings and customer might make the mistake of torquing down on the Rings and you know I little tighter tighter a little tighter and just because I don't want to come off so make him Hercules tight smart but not really because what you're doing is now crushing the aluminum the tube of the optic without getting too technical there's an inner tube within your optic and the outer tube but we can actually see if you put unnecessary torque on that outer tube it's gonna put pressure on the inner tube and it's gonna affect how much adjustability is going to be there so you might try to make an adjustment and it comes to a dead stop or it's giving you an incorrect adjustment and that is usually boil down to customer error on installation they put too much to work on those rims I did a little more research it is very good value for the money that you're spending I know a little bit about Mike here doing the install so I'm not worried that that's gonna go wrong it's nice that basically vortex themselves are installing it on the on the right the torque driver here allows us to get 40 inch pounds on the base rings or bolts whatever happen to be using the bottom rings similarly there is your going to be bolt heads like this or there'll be some kind of a 40 inch pounds that's what goes on to your lower rings and on to the amounts of the rifle itself I'm going to take the top rings off and see how the optic looks inside once it's mounted you don't need Hercules to put on these rings that kind of makes it a little bit nervous because we think that's what's holding on to our optic but it's that bearing surface remember we talked about little skinny rings versus the wider ring so you get get more bearing surface on there and it's not a lot of strength involved 18 inch pounds on the top frames let's take the time to take any lubricant off you can even if you're concerned about it you can put you know some kind of a degreaser on the threads of the bolts so that they have absolutely no grease on them whatsoever some shooters would be concerned I don't want them to rust well yeah you're right you don't want them to rust so we do have to have an aftercare program if you're out in the ring but you don't want any lubricant on any of these components whatsoever so this shooter has very limited options with these Weaver bases on where the bottom rings are gonna go his question earlier was how high should I get these rings that's a really good question there is a mathematical formula that you could calculate versus the height from the cheek piece to the centerline of the bore and the centerline of your tube access versus you'll get an answer to how much height do I need for the Rings and the purpose of that is so that your objective Bell here does not hit the barrel trying to get everything in line from his eyeball through the optic and onto his given target another benefit he doesn't have one for his particular rifle and he mentioned that he's going to be shooting maybe 300 meters at the most so this might not be something he's ideally going to be wanting to purchase I would recommend it for something that's shooting beyond 300 it's it's a scope level it's something that gets attached to a precision long-range rifle you can see the other rifles in the room that have these bubble levels the idea is that when you're when you're firing downrange you don't want any can't to the rifle anytime you can't it well if I can't if I'm counting it left that shots gonna go left and drop down left and I'm exaggerating and move the movement here but even just a millimeter of my end at 600 meters or 1,200 meters that one millimeter of movement is going to correlate to that distance dramatically so dramatically so before you crank everything down you got to get into whatever shooting position is going to be your shooting position crank it to the highest power is the highest power does this to our window and makes it narrower the lower power makes it wider so crank it down to the lowest setting get into your shooting position and then have a friend or on your if you're on your own it just makes a little bit more difficult and you just kind of slide it back and forth a little bit until you're at that largest one and call that that's my eye relief my eye relief is now set now you can go ahead and mount the range down and you're gonna be shooting off a bench on the ground off a bench so I think what I'll do is I'll get things turned around a little bit here we can take advantage of this tabletop and act it kind of like a bench and you can just take up a regular shooting type position and we'll do that we'll make sure that the eye relief is set for you the shooter is at his range he's comfortable off the bench so his predominant shooting is gonna be from a bench with this bench type position I can now work with him and together we'll get that eye relief set so feel free to take this bag and just turn it like so I can recognize that you want a little bit more height there yeah and you can take your left hand and just squeeze on that bag a little bit just get it as high as you want yeah there you go it's very versatile bag I'm gonna I'm gonna dial this rate down to its lowest magnification and that's gonna give you a nice big window at some point in time right I'm gonna go a little closer to you you tell me when to stop I would sweet spot it's getting smaller a bigger bigger bigger good so ideally will last the shooter what's the highest magnification you think you'll shoot from and some of these optics can go to a ridiculous number third and 1450 Ventura shooters have that kind of magnification some shooters will experience at the high magnification Mirage so unless you learn how to shoot with Mirage do you really need that much magnification I think you've gone with a 3-2 24s 324 I don't know if you're ever gonna be using 24 maybe 24 to see your bullet holes perhaps right but 24 is quite high power yeah so I'm gonna I'm gonna say let's let's say 20 okay 20 say 20 is gonna be your your maximum setting you could always go more if you want when you're trying to check bullet holes or something after just for precision shooting let's call it 20 power so I'm gonna do the same thing again but what I'd like you to do is come off the rifle and just pretend you're looking downrange and then naturally put your down the rifle just naturally that's your natural position I don't want the shooters to start moving their head around trying to find the comfortable position I want the rifle to fit the shooter not the shooter to try to fit themselves to the rifle so I'm gonna start sliding it towards you and you tell me is the window getting better or worse good tell me when it's at its maximum spread across nice big window ready look they're excellent so what we've accomplished is setting the eye relief for the shooter get their head naturally onto the cheek piece and I'm looking right now for a nice straight line from the inner tube right to his eye so we try not to move the rifle now because we have the eye relief set which kind of keeps things still a little bit and this is where a friend comes in handy if you're doing this at home you can see how careful you have to be with resting the rifle because now you got to get to your tools and start putting down putting the bolts down once we have that eye relief set the top rings get put in place but they do not get tightened down and just as the shooter had mentioned we got to level it off absolutely got to make sure that the rifles level reticles level as you can see where the rings and bases are in relation to the turret towers we've got a nice equal distance so I'm gonna slowly start to turn these down and I'm trying to keep the top ring even on both sides now again I'm not gonna crank it down because there's still more work we have to do but I'd like to quit just enough friction on there it's not going to move well we have a few more things to is to take care of starting to feel that pinched my skin on my finger and thumb so I can feel it starting to take up a little pressure around the optic but we first we got to level the rifle this particular bipod platform doesn't have a pivoting ability not a big deal but we can we can fix that so I'm going to try to get a bit more height onto your your left leg here it's pretty pretty close right now our attempt is with the first level is to make the rifle this level to mother earth as possible that's all we've done rifles leveled great now how's the object so I attached that to the optic and I can see well no my optic is twisted within the ring so if I put too much pressure on the ring means I won't be able to turn it so what I'll let you do is what you just saw me do with the optic and just until you're happy okay that's good all right apply some pressure on the ring without moving the optic just get it started because as we move around we don't want to move that and I'm gonna pay attention to the space that's developed there and the space that's developed on the other side the opposite side doing our best as we tighten that that space maintains its consistency from the left side right side trying to feel them being even in little quarter quarter turns with amount sets the bottom rings in place scope is in place get the eye relief set to the shooter level off the rifle level off the optic with the rifle top rings in place the 18 inch pounds we now can adjust the reticle inside the optic so it's crisp and clear to the shooters eye so this is great so what I start with is I take the focus be sorry and I just pushed I just rotate that focus piece so it's all the way into the OP and what we have here is ideal conditions there's something white for the shooter look at and doesn't matter how far it is because we're not not being target focused right now all's I want you to be focused on is that reticle so just like before take up a comfortable shooting position and you come off the rifle and when you're ready to come on the rifle and look at that reticle now it may be in focus it may not but your eye is gonna try it's best to focus it for you don't we don't want that we want that relatively focused to your eye so longer we look at that reticle our I will focus it but I don't want my eye to have that much work to do so you can play with the reticle you to focus yourself once you get on the rifle you get it's a 1/2 a turn and goal is it getting better well it's getting better yeah it's getting better oh wow that's really crisp and then come off don't stay on too long go back on keep turning what's getting worse okay so you passed that sweet spot and you just keep coming back and forth head on head on head off and on until you get that nice crisp clear reticle every single time and eventually you'll start to see it get fuzzy and you realize that they have gone too far now all this work we're doing right now is trying to fit the rifle to the shooter I don't want my shooter to have to do anything out of the ordinary just get on the gun and be comfortable and now you just apply your fundamentals of marksmanship and you're gonna shoot bull's eye 10x rings every single time we're gonna hold you to that so everything is nice and level the only thing we haven't done yet besides firing a shot is well are we as close to being zero with this as possible as excited in we don't have much to work with here other than when the gentleman put a target across the room and I'll show you how we do what's called a hasty boresight it's only ten and ten meters away but at least it's a start right so all's we do for a hasty war site is get ourselves behind the rifles just like you were doing but I look down the bore at some time ideally a hundred meters down there I need yards ideal we only got ten yards to work with the concept is the same and once I look down the war and I've centered my boar on whatever that object is just raise my head a little bit and see where the reticle is in relation to what I'm looking at when we make the adjustments right here and there it's got a nice red dot and I can see the red dot down the center of the board so I know my rifle is on and when I slowly lift my head up I look at my my reticle and see where the reticle is in relation to that red dot it's helpful to have a a second pair of hands in place that can it can help manage this and it's helpful to be on a lower magnification setting yeah I actually left the right books good I remember this this is called a hasty boresight I'm doing this just to get on paper if you have a sheet of three feet by three feet paper you'll be able to get on your three feet by three feet paper and then you can make any adjustments wavefront play from the turret play from the turret itself you can do this from 100 meters get yourself on the target board with a nice clean sheet and then just do your calculations from here and slip scales unfortunately I take a little bit more magnification so we're gonna work on this together I'm gonna be back here at the bore going up and down with my head and then I'll ask you to turn the turret so you can see the direction this way is up yes ways down yeah it's interesting is I might ask you to come up you actually go down that'll move my brother cool can get a little confusing yes but really what we're doing here although it says up and I dial up what it's doing inside is taking my reticle and moving it down it's going in the opposite direction so if I say up you go down if I say down I need you to come down how funny you just keep going that's the six and stop come right so turn your dial left so that'll be yeah correct if you want to establish is a true zero hundred mark 100 meters hundred yards aim Center hit Center with the right loads now this is more of a this isn't a precision barrel you can see how thin this sucker is perhaps one shot wait a few minutes one shot wait a few minutes can you start firing repetitions this barrels gonna heat up right and it's gonna give some erratic behavior so we follow that concept and you still want to get a group of three shots five shots dead center what you're gonna learn next is go to your 200 meter range fire your shots it's obviously going to be low that's when you go to the elevation turret to learn how much up do I need to come at 200 repeated 300 etcetera etcetera so and what you're developing now is called dope your performance line your information that on previous engagement well I gotta say I'm very appreciative it is a very long process I mean we've been on it almost an hour it takes a while and like it's been said many times it's better to get it right at the start and we worked on it together anytime you need some help let me know I'm just an email away well thanks Keith thank you very much about your patient who appreciate it and so you don't miss out like us on facebook follow us on Instagram and subscribe to us on YouTube calm his coat of arms [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 19min 51sec (1191 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 20 2019