I just bought one of those plastic scope alignment tools from Midway. It's the kind that slides into the action and you supposedly align the mark on the tool with the vertical reticle on the scope. I was ripped off for $8. I couldn't see the reticle in the scope because the mark obscured it. I couldn't look down either side of the mark bacause the plastic was distorted. Even the instructions implied that it was a piece of cr*p. Anyone else have a similar experience? Is there any convenient way to align the scope with the action without having to buy a bore sighting tool? Any help would be appreciated.
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scope alignment
- Thread starter dongun
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Clint Tickler
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I bought that piece of cr**p myself. I just go by my eye now. I have a friend who uses a leval to draw a line on the target and line up the reticle that way. I honestly think you can do pretty good just eye balling it.
Try adjusting the windage a few inches after setting it and see if your moving horizontaly or diagonaly. Clint
Try adjusting the windage a few inches after setting it and see if your moving horizontaly or diagonaly. Clint
I usually end up having to mount a scope at night and inside the house. I just use a card table or bar stool, set the rifle on sand bags and aim toward a paneled wall with vertical stripes or the corner of the room and align the crosshair to that.
Outside would be easier due to longer distance and less blurring through the scope but any vertical or horizontal feature will do as a gage.
Mikey
Outside would be easier due to longer distance and less blurring through the scope but any vertical or horizontal feature will do as a gage.
Mikey
Art Eatman
Staff in Memoriam
Dongun, Mikey's idea is among the better for the most difficult part of the whole deal: getting the doggoned gun aligned vertically! The average rifle just isn't shaped right to be set exactly "just so".
About the only squared off area is around the magazine well. Or, open a floor-plate, and rest that part of the gun on a level...And danged if that ain't a cock-a-mamie arrangement!
99% of the time, I use Jim Keenan's method of the ol' Mark I Eyeball, to get started on sighting in.
Oh, well...
FWIW, I start my initial shoot-in on any old sheet of paper (taped to a cardboard box) with a thick horizontal Pentel line, and maybe three vertical lines, at 25 yards. A perfect zero, there, is roughly 2" high at 100 yards, commonly.
Y'all be good, Art
About the only squared off area is around the magazine well. Or, open a floor-plate, and rest that part of the gun on a level...And danged if that ain't a cock-a-mamie arrangement!
99% of the time, I use Jim Keenan's method of the ol' Mark I Eyeball, to get started on sighting in.
Oh, well...
FWIW, I start my initial shoot-in on any old sheet of paper (taped to a cardboard box) with a thick horizontal Pentel line, and maybe three vertical lines, at 25 yards. A perfect zero, there, is roughly 2" high at 100 yards, commonly.
Y'all be good, Art