How to Properly Mount a Precision Rifle Scope from Start to Finish

Krav is here from silver core hunting season is coming up I'm really excited I've got a brand new rifle now in past years I've been using this guy awesome I love it very accurate super robust perhaps a little impractical weight wise anyways so what I've moved to is is this rifle right here to say ho eb-5 renowned for their accuracy I wanted to push that accuracy a bit further so what I did is I reached out to a local barrel manufacturer located here in British Columbia Canada international barrels they're known for making high-end precision rifle barrels this one is a 20 inch barrel chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor he's got a 1 in 8 twist before I take this firearm out to the range to cite it in I'm gonna need to mount a scope on it and that's the topic of this video roll in trouble [Music] welcome back everybody like I was saying earlier I'm very excited about this new rifle that the International barrels has put together for me the pretty cool factory I got a complete tour of it millions of dollars worth is a proprietary equipment and machinery in there and I would have loved to have been able to film some of that but given some of their actor izing processes which are holding close to their chest they've got a no camera policy there as for an optic for this firearm I ended up going with the vortex Viper HS for two sixteen by forty four now I've never owned a vortex scope before but after talking to a buddy who's a five-time national service rifle champion and he highly recommended them and in fact this is the exact same scope that he's using on his hunting rifle a reached out to vortex and they ship a hat pretty nice [Music] brand-new vortex Viper HS riflescope we look at this guy it's a good-looking scope just off the tags also we got in here comes with a sunshade that's nice [Applause] nice machined aluminum sunshade that it comes with because with instructions and of course microfiber cloth for cleaning [Music] so one of the first things that you're gonna want to do when you get a new riflescope you're gonna want to set the diopter on it what does that mean well some people refer to it as the focus of their their scope but it's more of the focus of the reticle you want to make sure that the reticle is adjusted precisely to your eyes now I've always find that a little bit difficult and the reason is I got pretty good eyes and they adjust really quickly so if the reticle is a little bit out of focus and I'm looking through it my eyes will compensate for that really quickly you're gonna notice that it's got a plus or minus on the front here and what that plus or minus is is it allows you to turn your eyepiece to adjust the diopter we're gonna take a look at a neutral object a blank wall a blue sky get your eyes closed you look through you pull it up and your first impression that you get is what you want to be looking at what do you see rather call if it's not sharp we start adjusting that diopter close your eyes we look away you look back even again and we take a look go back and forth until you get a crystal-clear reticle once your diopter is set you can then put your bikini cover back on or you know i like the flip caps Butler creeks made up for a long time vortex makes them as well throw on your flip cap cover gives you some good protection now this vortex cover it's it's a snug fit and it's advertised as being completely weather sealed and I'd have to believe it test it out this hunting season to see how it works the other thing that really appeals to me about the vortex brand in general is a VIP protection policy now I had a chance to look at that on the website and holy crow if you damage this scope as long as you're not wilfully abusing it you don't even need to receive you send that scope back if that damage affects the scopes function they'll either a fix it or give you a brand new scope you can't beat that this rifle being a Seiko or a Saco if you're a linguist it already has a rail built into the top and that rail accepts a proprietary cycle off you lock ring in base at the bottom of my ring you're gonna notice is a little nub that sticks out that's for your rear ring fits right in on the rail push it all the way forward use your torx key tighten it in [Music] and for now we'll just do it hand tight and we will repeat the process with the front this is nice because as I look at it you're rearing will not move forward at all given that pin that's in there and in fact your front ring is on a dovetail taper and if it were to move forward it would only tighten further now the bases are to be tightened to about 45 inch pounds generally I know what that feels like I can do it by hand but if you want to be really precise get yourself a torque wrench you can adjust it in 45 inch pounds and we tighten it down until we feel the wrench slip and we know it's at the desired torque [Music] all right now that we have our rings securely fastened to the firearm these optics have a neat little innovation where they've got these plastic rings they'll actually snap around the scope and what they're designed to do is have a nice firm grasp on the scope reduce any marking or marring that might be transferred from the metal to metal here so you can line up both of those plastic rings you place your scope so the break is in line so one of tightening this down with the top of the ring everything compresses what I do next is look at the top of the ring on take my screw and screw it in now so as to not cross thread I'll go backwards there's gonna be counterclockwise on a right hand thread until I hear a click when I get I click I then go forward and I just do that because it helps me line up my threads and ensures that I don't end up cross threading because you're not having a good day if that happens I'll repeat this process both front and back but loosely I don't want to Snug these down the reason being is I still want to move my scope around I want to make sure I can adjust the scope to the correct high relief and I want to make sure that scopes gonna be level when I adjust a rifle scope I want to make sure that it's the correct distance away from my eye too close under recoil I could get scope bite the scope could come back and hit me in my brow too far away and I'm not gonna have a proper sight picture when I look through my scope I'm looking for something we call clear glass which means everything in that scope looks crystal clear all around the edges if I see shading at the top or the right or the left see some sort of a dark shadow I know that the scope isn't in proper alignment with my inside they're too far forward or too far back or perhaps my my head is just off center of the skull so what I have to do is have to take a look at what I'm going to be using this scope for I'm gonna use this one for hunting purposes so probably not on my belly shooting prong so I'm gonna want to make sure that when I set up my scope distance from my eye the proper eye relief that I'm doing it from a position that I'll likely be shooting from which is going to be sitting or standing predominantly now this is something you can do by yourself or it's something that can be done with a partner and sometimes it's a bit easier but what you want to do take a look on through and I have right now my magnification is that the lowest magnification possible as I look through here I can see if it goes backwards or front this has got a pretty impressive eye box on it which means I'm getting clear glass at a pretty wide range all right when I find something I look too good for my I got my proper cheek weld I'll be shooting the front position sort of like this I can see right now that I'll probably want to build up the stock a little bit with some sort of a cheek piece because my cheeks gonna be riding a little bit lower okay so that looks good what I can do to ensure that I maintain that position let's take a piece of tape and square it off put it over the ring I know exactly where my eye relief is supposed to be I want to make sure that reticle on the inside is not candid one side or the other there's a few different ways we can achieve this one of the easiest ways whenever possible is you take a look at the bottom of your scope and it's gonna have a flat fair if you had a different rifle something that had a flat rail that goes all the way across you'd sit in and tip that bar stock just slightly until you got that flat rate across the top and you could level it now this rifle unfortunately doesn't have that and I can't level it off the round tube there on this firearm what I'm going to do to make sure it's absolutely level is I'm gonna actually use a level now in here's pass I've gotten really really close just by eyeballing but if you're doing this and you want to be a hundred percent sure or if you're doing it for somebody else take the time use a level and find out exactly make sure that reticle is dead-on and a fine level on this guy and I take the scope straight off put it on down and I'm gonna use a level you'll notice this magnetic I'll stick it right on the flat part that's milled into the receiver left and right I'll level off the scope make sure it cranked in nice and tight hey looks good with that bubble the more accurate we are the happier we'll be so we make sure there's an equal amount of distance on either side of the line and I repeat the process by placing this device on the barrel now what I'm going to want to do with this guy get it on nice and close tighten it down and for any minut adjustments I'll dial it this guy right here make sure that your level is perpendicular to the bore you don't want to be judging level at an angle left or right because it's gonna give you a false reading and I'll do that by pressing straight back against the Rings [Music] now it's time to Snug your ring screws down no torque settings are something that's fairly new in the world again so I think we went for a very long time without anybody talking about torque settings because people just I guess through trial and error knew how hard to tighten something down before they stripped a screw or crushed a scope tube but to eliminate that trial and error manufacturers have now come up with torque settings now you'll notice when I tighten down these screws I do so in a zigzag pattern kind of like tightening the lugs on your car's tire I'll start on one to the other and back and forth and I'll just kind of Snug them down the other thing that I'm looking for is I want to make sure that I'm not cranking one side down and leaving a big gap on the other side I want to make sure that I've got an equal amount of height on either side of that ring these safety locks recommend a 45 inch pound on the base and a 17 inch pound on the Rings I've got it to 17 inch pounds if you're the type I would like to use a thread locking compound like a lock tight or a Permatex which can come in a liquid or a gel type format use blue not red not green not purple blue medium strength lock tight because you want to be able to get those screws out in the future use something too strong you'll end up stripping your screws if you don't take the proper precautions if you're gonna use any lock tight you'll take out one screw at a time lock tight it back in then move to the next one again in the same crisscross pattern now that we have this scope properly mounted on the firearm we're gonna want to go out and take you to the range inside again because nothing's more frustrating and trying to hit a target and not knowing where that bullet lands one thing we can do on the ranges who we can start with the target a little closer to us and then work our way out but before we even get to the range we can do something called bore sighting there's a number of different ways that we can boresight a firearm but essentially the idea behind it is we want to make sure that this scope is roughly in line with the axis of this bore when it comes to bore sighting your firearm one of the easiest ways to do it is to set it up in a rest such as this or even just with a bipod and sandbags something that's gonna keep it from tipping left and right and kind of hold it nice and secure nice and still on your target remove the bolt and you're gonna want to look down the barrel and line that barrel up with your target now there is a trick to being able to line it up accurately and more accurately you line that bear all up and then adjust your scope the happier you're gonna be because your bullets gonna land a lot closer to that Center so when I'm more setting this firearm I'm gonna treat the back of the barrel of a very front like aperture sights so the rear sight and the front sight are going to be lined up when I line those two up and then line up my target so it's dead center if it's all sandbag and secured in just my elevation I'll adjust my windage until it comes on dead center with the target I'll take a shot and I'm gonna find I'm probably gonna be cutting paper and I did my job or sighting this properly I might even be pretty close to that bull's eye there are other ways to boresight this firearm they make some inexpensive laser inserts like the one I'm holding here you get pricier laser inserts each one custom-made to a different bore diameter you can get a dummy cartridge that you can fit into the chamber and it'll emit a laser beam all the way down to born you line up with the target the downside to all of those is you need some distance in order to be able to set up your firearm and if you're doing this in a small shop it's gonna be difficult the other important thing to remember anything that we stick down this voor comes out before we pull that trigger and you might laugh but it only takes a quick Google search to see a number of people we've made that mistake and they've had a very bad day doing so for me I've always liked using a basic column nadir or spud to boresight my firearm I take it out I've already matched up the 6.5 arbor with it what I do is I place this down the barrel being very careful of my crown and take a look down my scope I make sure it's level and I'll dial myself in until I can see the crosshairs line up with the crosshairs on the inside there's a little grid pattern up and down if you like what you see here make sure to hit that like button and let us know in the comments below subscribe if you already haven't and hit that bell if you want to be notified in the next video that we put out see you next time

Channel: Silvercore

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Keywords: Firearm, Training, Gun, Silvercore, CFSC, CRFSC, Hunting, Handgun, Shotgun, Rifle, Gunsmithing, CORE, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Delta, British, Columbia, Safety, scope, how to, mount, bore sight, level, diopter, eye relief, scope bite, reticle, vortex, ibi, international barrels, custom rifle, custom barrel, when accuracy matters, precision, scope mounting, installing a rifle scope, firearm (sports equipment), precision rifle series, telescopic sight, hunting scope, precision rifle, install, set up

Id: _h61cjv9lGA

Length: 18min 37sec (1117 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 23 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/thehuntinggearguy]

Where are the hose clamps?

[u/commissar_lubi]

Hadn't heard about this channel until today, impressed by the production quality. Keep up the good work!

[u/sipsip_lee]

When are you guys coming to taurono?

[u/borischung01]

Right when I got my new scope. Perfect.

The bar stock leveling method is great, thx.