Ok, look.
Sighting a scope is just not that hard.
Put a sheet of cardboard up at 50 yards, with one self adhesive dot close to
The middle.
Rest your rifle on a sled or non shifting sandbags. Pull the bolt. Sighting down the barrel, adjust the rest until the barrel points at the dot. Adjust the scope until the crosshairs point at the dot. A laser boresighter will work if you cant siggt down the bore.
Now take one shot, crosshairs on the dot. Settle the crosshairs back on the dot. Move the crosshairs to the bullethole you just made. You are now at moment of deer. Sheesh people.
Not many boresight lasers can be seen at 50 yards. Some of the green ones are strong enough. But you can get on the paper doing that indoors looking down most hallways.
Adjust as needed for higher scope rings.
Also, i have yet to see a boresight that was properly collimated.
I’ve collected some tidy sums for zeroing-in rifles for people who not only lack the skill you’ve mentioned, but can’t shoot well enough to differentiate “pattern” from “group”.
Quite literally, I’ve lost count of the number of times at various ranges, where someone has complained of a rifle or handgun that just won’t “shoot right”, that I’ve taken and without changing a single thing, shot a tight group therefrom.
(apologies for dorked sentegraph there!)
I wonder, if there’s a way that The Appleseed Project could generate a condensed version of their program, if nothing else, just enough to help Elmer Fudd learn “BRASS”, and natural point of aim.
And while I’m not advocating a Nordic style “shoot to qualify” step in obtaining a hunting license, perhaps at least a one-page bit on marksmanship and technique could be included in the Hunter’s Guidebooks that most State Wildlife Departments publish?
Kim DuToit had the right idea with A Nation of Riflemen. Looks like it’s to all of us to pick up the slack?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Indeed, Jim. And that would also involve posting something on your blog once in a while.
I like to shoot three with a same point of aim and then adjust to point of impact. I also like using 25 yards as that gives a cylinder of aim out to 300 yards.
I hunt some hilly ground and I have safe shots out to the 500 yard range from time to time. 308 or 30-06 works good on deer at those ranges.
Yeah, if i hunted long distances like that its more complex, but not a lot more complex.
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+1 on Jim… sigh