Thread: River to Ranges to sight in rifle?

The problem with turning up at NZDA range on public day with a rifle not prepared to shoot, is that you take up all the time of the two range officers getting your rifle working.
At least bore sight it in the garden using a piece of paper.
Google the trajectory of your caliber for the sighting you want, eg. https://press.hornady.com/assets/pct...tics-Chart.pdf

Set the rifle on a stand an get the eye relief comfortable when at minimum and maximum magnification.
ensuring the rifle is held not canted adjust the rotation of the cross-hairs to line up with a known vertical line in the house e.g a door or window frame.
Tighten the scope screws like a cylinder head.
Re-check the eye relief and vertical alignment.
put up a target say 25m away. Mark it with a point of aim say 1.5 inches below centre.

Set the rifle up on a stand, line up the barrel with the marking on the target paper
Look through the barrel and align it with the marking
look through the scope and adjust the cross hairs to the same place as the barrel.
Then go to the range and start at the shortest range to ensure its on the paper.
Then move out to 100m and 200m.

NZDA recently had a newbie turn up on public day.
The guy had bought a very expensive rifle and scope from a certain gunshop in chc who have big blue signs.
the gun shop said they had set it up for him already.
The rifle could not hit the paper at 50m after many shots of trying to adjust all on his own.
The scope screws turned out to be loose as a goose.
The RO's had to start from scratch and got it within reason at 50m and at next cycle, he moved to the 100m
He got the rifle zeroed on the 100m, so moved to the 200m at the next cycle.
At 200m it was all over the place again. Shooting at a completely different point of Aim. So he called the RO again.

Turns out, the newbie had told the gun shop "I want to hunt tops but I also want to hunt bush" so they sold him two boxes in two different bullet weights and didn't explain that they would have different POA.
So the newbie shot the "tops" bullet weight boxes during the 50m debacle and the 100m checks but had run out by the time he went to the 200m, so he started using the different weight bullets at the 200m and that is why his rifle was "off".

And here is why we don't like newbies turning up at the range on a public visit and not explaining why they are there.
And why some homework would have helped him - or a good gunshop!!


Th

Originally Posted by scottrods

The problem with turning up at NZDA range on public day with a rifle not prepared to shoot, is that you take up all the time of the two range officers getting your rifle working.
At least bore sight it in the garden using a piece of paper.
Google the trajectory of your caliber for the sighting you want, eg. https://press.hornady.com/assets/pct...tics-Chart.pdf

Set the rifle on a stand an get the eye relief comfortable when at minimum and maximum magnification.
ensuring the rifle is held not canted adjust the rotation of the cross-hairs to line up with a known vertical line in the house e.g a door or window frame.
Tighten the scope screws like a cylinder head.
Re-check the eye relief and vertical alignment.
put up a target say 25m away. Mark it with a point of aim say 1.5 inches below centre.

Set the rifle up on a stand, line up the barrel with the marking on the target paper
Look through the barrel and align it with the marking
look through the scope and adjust the cross hairs to the same place as the barrel.
Then go to the range and start at the shortest range to ensure its on the paper.
Then move out to 100m and 200m.

NZDA recently had a newbie turn up on public day.
The guy had bought a very expensive rifle and scope from a certain gunshop in chc who have big blue signs.
the gun shop said they had set it up for him already.
The rifle could not hit the paper at 50m after many shots of trying to adjust all on his own.
The scope screws turned out to be loose as a goose.
The RO's had to start from scratch and got it within reason at 50m and at next cycle, he moved to the 100m
He got the rifle zeroed on the 100m, so moved to the 200m at the next cycle.
At 200m it was all over the place again. Shooting at a completely different point of Aim. So he called the RO again.

Turns out, the newbie had told the gun shop "I want to hunt tops but I also want to hunt bush" so they sold him two boxes in two different bullet weights and didn't explain that they would have different POA.
So the newbie shot the "tops" bullet weight boxes during the 50m debacle and the 100m checks but had run out by the time he went to the 200m, so he started using the different weight bullets at the 200m and that is why his rifle was "off".

And here is why we don't like newbies turning up at the range on a public visit and not explaining why they are there.
And why some homework would have helped him - or a good gunshop!!


Th

You got any more info on that newbie? Don't really need the name but if you knew what scope and rifle it was I can look the sale up and give the staff member that sold the rifle a tickle up and make sure they are on top of the training if they are new.