Rifle Sight-in Process | Long-Range Rifle Shooting with Ryan Cleckner

[Music] I just got a brand-new scope mounted to my rifle and I went through the steps to set it up to make sure it fits me properly now I need to zero it hi I'm Ryan collector with the National Shooting Sports Foundation in this video we're going to talk about how to zero your scope to your rifle now when I say zero I'm meaning nothing more than taking the point of aim inside the scope and making it match the point of impact downrange at a certain distance now that at a certain distance is important just like when we covered minutes of angle earlier we talked about a minute of angle is only a certain size at that distance well the likewise is true with zeroing you see I like to zero my rifle is 100 yards you might choose to zero them at 200 yards well if we both shoot our zeroed rifles at 100 yard target our impacts are going to be different but that's okay it's not that your rifle isn't zeroed it's just that your rifle is zeroed at 200 yards now once we have that set up we can then use that as a baseline in the future to make adjustments for different distances so instead of sitting here at the hundred yard line and wasting ammunition in time trying to get it close there's a couple tricks we can use first we can boresight the scope to the rifle and second we can shoot at the 25-yard line to make sure we're at least close enough on paper I have my gear set up at the 25-yard line we're going to go try both first thing I'm going to do is boresight my scope to my rifle now by bore sighting it you're literally looking through the bore of the rifle and making sure the scope is aiming at the same spot now this is a course easier with a bolt-action rifle because I can just pull the bolt if you have a semi-automatic rifle you're in luck if it's a style where you can take the bolt out and do the same thing so let's say you have an MSR an AR style rifle you can take the upper receiver out of the lower pull the bolt out and you can still see through the barrel and adjust the scope so after I take these out I want to make sure I'm on a nice stable position because it's not going to do me any good to have the rifle moving around I like to shoot off of a bag by applied legs are nice to hold the rifle but I get more consistent results off of a bag and in the back of the rifle for support I use a sand sock now a sand sock is what it sounds like it's a sock filled with sand it's a nice piece that I can squeeze at different tensions to get higher or lower on the back it's a nice rest for the rifle and it really helps in this process so what I do is I back down the rifle where I can look through the barrel I get the rifle stable as I can looking at a certain spot on the target now I alternate back and forth between looking through the barrel that's lined up at a certain spot and up to the scope and I can go back and forth to see how much of an adjustment I need to make so that the crosshairs are where the barrels pointed out it looks like I have quite a bit to go here that looks good on elevation now for windage I got a ways to go well that looks close enough but the good news is we're at the 25-yard line anyway so we're likely at least going to be on paper and as long as we're on paper we can go up and measure where our impacts are and make the appropriate adjustments in our scope let me get this back on we'll take let's go see what that impact was and make any adjustments if need be well all right that's not bad that shot is about a half inch away where I intended it to be which means the scope is pretty close now I'm not going to make adjustments now though one reason is I just took one shot I didn't shoot a group and you always want to shoot with the group and you're making adjustments the idea is if you make a mistake and flinch on one shot or pull one shot one way the other and you try to adjust off of that you'll be chasing rounds all over the target all day you need to shoot a good consistent group first then adjust off the sound of the group the good news is when it's this close I know at least I'm going to be on paper at 100 I'm going to be able make some good adjustments there we're back at the hundred yard line and now we're going to shoot a group that we can adjust off of it's important that this is a good group so now that I'm set in a stable position I'm going to take a few chances here to dry fire and make sure that my trigger control feels good and everything is set to go before I start sitting rounds downrange okay those felt nice and stable I'm going to go and start sending rounds downrange shoot that nice group and make any adjustments I need to make it's important that when you're doing this you're honest with yourself if you don't feel stable or if you don't feel that your trigger control is exactly where it needs to be keep practicing it's going to save you some time and some ammunition all right we just shot a three-round group let's go see how we did and make any adjustments we might need to make all right well that's not bad I'm going to be happy with any group that's under a minute of angle and let's revisit minutes for a second a minute of angle ends up being about an inch at a hundred yards so these squares on this paper are 1-inch squares so any group I shoot that's smaller than one of those squares is going to be a good enough good enough group to adjust off of well it looks like from here I'm going to need to come down into the right but how much is the key I have a scope that adjusts in quarter minute adjustments so we can get pretty precise here if I take the center of the group I need to come down one two and a half minutes of angle and I need to come over to the right a little over one we can call that one and a quarter minutes of angle so down two and a half and over one and a quarter will get us where we need to be now we didn't adjust off that 25-yard shot that we shot before but if we did this result would still make sense if you remember I said I wanted to be about an inch low at 25 yards well at 25 yards a minute of angle is a lot smaller matter of fact it's only a quarter of an inch so one of my advice are my tips from before was to think in the size chunks that a minute of angle is so if you think in quarter inch chunks we can measure the same thing it looks like it's just under three minutes too high and little over one minute too far to the left exactly the same result we see here now it's time to make our adjustments this scope adjusts one quarter minute per click so for every four clicks that's one minute of angle which means for us to come down our two and a half minutes we need to come down ten clicks to three or that's one minute that's two minutes that's down two and a half minutes now we need to adjust right one on the quarter it's going to five clicks five clicks to the right let's see what that does for our group all right group looks good the adjustments worked now that the scope is zeroed we're going to slip the scales by slipping the scales what I mean is adjusting the turrets so that the zero on the turret actually lines up with this mark in the front so it's truly zeroed for next time now to do this on this particular scope we're going to adjust these turrets by unscrewing these little allen screws at the top of the turret cap by doing this the turret cap loosens up and now become separate from the adjustment inside you see the post inside only turns so this is tightened down to grab it now that I have loosened these screws I can turn this cap and you don't hear any clicks because no adjustments are being made you need to be careful here that when you loosen them when you first start turning if you hear it click pay attention because that means you're making adjustments so what I'll do is I'll line this up so the zero is on the front and then I'll come in and snug these back down do not over tighten these little screws they're small they can easily strip and if these things strip so this the cap doesn't hold tight you're really going to be in trouble when you try to make adjustments later okay that one's good let's do the windage okay now the scales are slipped and both the elevation and the windage tour line up with a zero in the front this way if we make adjustments in the future it's easy to come back to the scopes true zero just by turning back to the turrets zero now you can run into problems in the future if one of these comes loose if you're in the middle of making adjustment it comes loose and spins on you you might not know exactly where you're at so it's going to be hard to come back to the zero so I like to do is have what I call the mechanical zero the mechanical zero is how far we can turn one turret tour the scope mechanically stops us and then we count back from that so we know what where the true zero of the scope is now scope like this comes with some shims where you can actually put underneath the turret which are handy because they allow the term only to go down so far they act like a zero stop which stops the actual tour inside not just the turret cap and even scopes I have a zero stop in the turret cap it's only so good as long as the turret never slipped on you so let's check out the mechanical zero I'm going to go up and count in full revolutions until it stops me one revolution up two three four five oh not quite past five so each revolution of this turret was 12 minutes so 5 times the 12 minutes is 60 minutes plus a half so I'm going to write down that 60 and a half minutes down from the absolute top is my actual zero because that's what we need to come down there's a half minute down and I want to come down 61 revolution 2 3 4 and 5 now we're back to the Scopes true zero this means if I ever have troubles of this turret in the future all I need to do is just to the Scopes top limit and count down 60 and a half minutes of angle I would repeat the same process for the windage so I know that mechanical 0 2 and that's it you now know how to zero 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Length: 11min 37sec (697 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 05 2012