RIFLE SIGHT IN PROBLEM?

[sc8point]

WHILE SIGHTING IN A NEW REM 700 VARMINT GUN,LEUPOLD SCOPE, I RAN OUT OF SCOPE ADJUSTMENT TO THE RIGHT.STUCK ANOTHER SCOPE ON AND THE SAME PROBLEM.HAS LEUPOLD ONE PIECE BASE AND LEUPOLD RINGS. IDEAS?

 

[Nhill]

The base or rings have to be on crooked.

 

[Model70Man]

Are you using the Leupold STD rear base and rings? You might just need to just adjust the windage on the rear ring.

 

[mr.big]

I think the leupold one piece base is windage adjustable,,

 

[Lost Lake]

Please forgive me if you already know or have tried this...I've had this problem over the years with several rifles.

First, crank your scopes windage adjustment to one side till it bottoms out. Then count the number of turns it takes to reach bottom the other direction. Now divide by two and move the adjustment knob that number of turns back from the side you bottomed out on. Be careful and don't crank too hard as you bottom the adjustment out.

Now, hopefully your Leupold base has the windage adjustment screw and if it does use THAT screw to adjust your windage when you bore sight. What that does is get your cross hairs roughly centered on target and you still have a wide adjustment range with your scopes windage ring.

Hope that wasn't too long winded and makes a little sense. Good luck with it. It has worked for me on several occasions.

 

[DaveB]

Sounds to me like two problems, the windage screw is off, way off, and that implies the front ring is not at a right angle to the base. Pull the scope. Get a one inch wooden dowel. lay it in the rings and look for a space between the rings and dowel. If your rear ring is that far off, the front ring is also probably not squarely mounted either. another way is to hold the rifle so the rings are parallel to the ground and place a level on each ring and adjust until the bubble is lcoated in same place dead center hopefully. Once rings are definitely at right angles to the bases, remount the scope but do not tighten up the base screws on the rear rings that control gross windage adjustments. Follow procedure in earlier post and get your windage adjustment centered.

Now, Pull the bolt. set the rifle on a rest. about 25 feet away set up a target with a red/orange target dot. adjust the rifel and or target until you can look through the bore and see the one inch dot. without touching anything, look through the scope. You should see the crosshairs centered on the dot. If not, gently adjust the windage screws to move the crosshairs to dead center. Re-align the rifle so you can look through barrel and see the target dot. Now look through scope. repeat this process until you get bore and scope looking at same thing at same time.

And now you know why people pay places to mount their scope. There are made-for-the task tools that make the proces error free. Ever seen the Midway USA ad where there is a bubble level on top of the elevation turret? Yep, that's one. Stops you from mounting the scope tilted to one side. Amazing how that little tool eases life's litle problems.

 

[pseshooter300]

Get you a set of talleys

 

[Lost Lake]

A lot of times the cause of the problem you mention is that the holes for scope base mounting weren't drilled exactly in line with the bore. They can be just ever so slightly off and the exact problem you describe happens. That's why windage adjustable bases like the Leupold can help out. The windage adjustable base gets your scope and rifle "looking" roughly in the same direction for further fine tuning.

 

[infoman jr.]

I have a Leupold one piece base. It has windage adjustment in the rear, although they do make a one piece with a double dovetail. I found it very easy to use and only had to move my scope windage a few clicks to zero.

As for finding the physical center of your turrets - place a small mirror against the objective bell of your scope and line up the reticle with its reflection.

 

[Greg M]

Hone the scope rings

 

[sc8point]

THANKS FOR ALL THE ADVISE. AFTER TAKING THE GUN BACK TO LAWSON'S, I GOT THE RIGHT GUY ON IT, SET THE WINDAGE WITH THE BASE AND NOW 3 SHOT 3/4 INCH GROUP AT 100YDS AFTER 1 SHOT AT 25 YDS. THANKS FOR INFO ABOUT THE BASE.

 

[Lost Lake]

Glad it worked out!!

 

[Boone 58]

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