Zeroing a scope
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When you're shooting high, you bring the crosshairs up, not down. The adjustments on the scope knobs refer to bullet impact. When you adjust a scope "up" you are bringing the bullet impact "up" which means the crosshairs are coming "down." In the OP, your friend was technically right, because scope adjustment is done by moving bullet impact, not crosshair position. But you were both correct in your mechanics. He was referring to moving bullet impact down, and you were referring to moving the crosshairs up. Both are correct.
Clifford L. Hughes really had the best explanation that I read in all that.
1MOA is approx 1inch at 100 yards. So a 1/4moa adjustment (most optics are 1/2 or 1/4moa per click), will move the impact by 1/4 inch at 100yards, 1/2inch at 200yards, 3/4inch at 300yards, 1inch at 400yards, etc, etc, etc
ndking1126
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Don't think of moving it the opposite way or the same way.. think of it as moving the point of impact or the point of aim. In your orignal post, your buddy was telling you to move your point of impact, while you are trying to move your point of aim.
Scopes (at least American ones I've shot) are designed to move the point of impact to where your crosshairs sit. So for example, pick a spot on your target and always always keep your crosshairs on it while you are aiming, because your point of aim shouldn't change. Each time you adjust the impact gets closer and closer (hopefully) to your point of aim.
Scopes (at least American ones I've shot) are designed to move the point of impact to where your crosshairs sit. So for example, pick a spot on your target and always always keep your crosshairs on it while you are aiming, because your point of aim shouldn't change. Each time you adjust the impact gets closer and closer (hopefully) to your point of aim.
chadstrickland
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Hahaha..I love this thread...now let's tell him how to set in sights on a bow and arrow and see what happens 
Visual aid...
get a pencil, pen, ruler, or other straight object, and hold it up ionfront of you. Imagine this is your line of sight. Aim at your target (or a representation of it) Aim at center. Now, holding the pencil at the back end (closest to you), which way to you move the front of the pencil, to point at the bullet holes?
Thats the way you move the crosshairs in your scope.
The same method works for iron sights as well, but the process is just opposite. For Iron sights, hold the pencil at the front (representing your front sight) and move the back until your line of sight matches the bullet holes. THis is the way you move the rear sight. Note that the direction of movement of the rear iron sight is just opposite the direction of movement of the scope crosshairs! That is because of the single focal plane of the scope. IT sounds odd, but try it, it does work.
get a pencil, pen, ruler, or other straight object, and hold it up ionfront of you. Imagine this is your line of sight. Aim at your target (or a representation of it) Aim at center. Now, holding the pencil at the back end (closest to you), which way to you move the front of the pencil, to point at the bullet holes?
Thats the way you move the crosshairs in your scope.
The same method works for iron sights as well, but the process is just opposite. For Iron sights, hold the pencil at the front (representing your front sight) and move the back until your line of sight matches the bullet holes. THis is the way you move the rear sight. Note that the direction of movement of the rear iron sight is just opposite the direction of movement of the scope crosshairs! That is because of the single focal plane of the scope. IT sounds odd, but try it, it does work.