Scopping my gun
01-09-2007, 11:32 AM
#3
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
RE: Scopping my gun
If you mean you need it done ASAP, then go to a qualified gunsmith and have them mount the scope if you are not familiar with the operation. Then have them bore sight it. This will normally get you on paper at 25 yards. If you have a load worked up, then you can tune the scope and work longer distances.
01-09-2007, 03:45 PM
#5
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
RE: Scopping my gun
A good load for your Black Diamond is 100 grs Pyrodex and a 250 gr shockwave. They shoot real well out of my Black Diamond XR. Also I just got a simple Trophy Scope mount and bases from Cabela's and mounted a solid scope on the rifle. I put a 1.5-4.5x32mm Bushnell Dusk to Dawn. Works real good.
01-09-2007, 03:46 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location:
Posts: 1,470
RE: Scopping my gun
ORIGINAL: rednecksteve
Its a TC black dimond
and i just want to get it done without having to use a lot of ammo
Its a TC black dimond
and i just want to get it done without having to use a lot of ammo
If you don't boresight it, then try shooting a 25 yard target. If it prints, shoot 2 more shots, (if it doesn't bore-sight it). Find the center. See how this center relates to dead center and1/2" high. Since a click is 1/4" at 100 yards,for every 1/2" at 25 yards you need to move the group, adjust 8 clicks (4 clicks for a 1/4 adjustment at 25 yards). So if you are 3 inches low, adjust48 clickshigher. If you are a1 1/2 in. right, adust 24 clicks left. Test the next shot to make sure you clicked the right way. You should be good to go out further for adjustments at greater range. If there is a crosswind, don't adjust your windage at 50 yards or more, wait for a calm day to do that.
Just remember, as you adjust, that you are moving center of a group when you make adjustments.
01-09-2007, 05:16 PM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Mesa, Arizona
Posts: 986
RE: Scopping my gun
If you have access to a good gun vise you can shoot one shot with the crosshairs on the bullseye. Then if you can anchor the gun with that sight setting (crosshairs on the bullseye) you can adjust the scope to put the crosshairs on the bullet hole and you are almost perfect. The big secret is the gun has to be secure so that it does not move when you are adjusting the scope. I have done this several times and it saves a lot of shooting.
01-09-2007, 05:37 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location:
Posts: 1,470
RE: Scopping my gun
ORIGINAL: MLKeith
If you have access to a good gun vise you can shoot one shot with the crosshairs on the bullseye. Then if you can anchor the gun with that sight setting (crosshairs on the bullseye) you can adjust the scope to put the crosshairs on the bullet hole and you are almost perfect. The big secret is the gun has to be secure so that it does not move when you are adjusting the scope. I have done this several times and it saves a lot of shooting.
If you have access to a good gun vise you can shoot one shot with the crosshairs on the bullseye. Then if you can anchor the gun with that sight setting (crosshairs on the bullseye) you can adjust the scope to put the crosshairs on the bullet hole and you are almost perfect. The big secret is the gun has to be secure so that it does not move when you are adjusting the scope. I have done this several times and it saves a lot of shooting.
