Back to the basics:sighting in

[Evan03]

ive been useing 1" orange dots at 100yds to bore site to save on ammo.

i bore site. by looking through the barrel at the dot then adjust the scope to the dot.

i then fire one shot at 20yds to make certain its close enough to step back and shoot from 100yds.

by useing this method ive knocked the amount of ammo in half and sometimes considerably more when siteing in.

sometimes as fast as 5 rds to have the rifle sited in.

i also shoot at targets with 1" square backgrounds. this way i can tell how much i need to adjust just by looking at what square the bullet landed in. this saves time and is more precise than guestimateing how high or hoiw far left your impacting at 100yds.

i used to only adjust horizontal or vertical in one sitting. if i was shoot4"s low id adjust vertical. shot a few rds to make sure its on then adjust my 2"s left to be where i want it.

now i fire 2rds after bore siting and do all adjustments from there right to where i want to be. although i havent always had good scopes that could handle that. ive adjusted as much as a foot vertical and just as far horizontal after the 2 rds at 100 and came out dead on where i wanted to be.

ill give leupold credit on that.

good thread

Evan