Thread: Don't Take Anything For Granted

After the Toby shoot last year where I failed to get the rifle zeroed I decided it's time for a looksie. Go to the range to zero the varmint rifle (7mm RM) after putting on another scope. Put a couple of red dots on the paper and staple it on the board at 25m, bore sight on a dot, then twiddle the right hand knob till the cross hair lines up on a dot. Pop a round off, hmm close to the dot, hang on, ... that's the wrong dot! About 9" to the right at 25m? Twiddle the knob to put full windage on and pop off another round, ... still 2" to the right at 25m.

Get home and check all the mounts. All OK. Remove scope and replace it with a 2m length of 30mm heavy aluminium tube from the garage. Yup, things are a bit skew-whiff, inside of the right hand side of the tube lines up with the hole in the barrel. Remove the EGW rail and using the eyeometer can see that the holes in the top of the receiver are heading left looking from the blunt end. Bugger! So remounted the Rail and rings and mounted the scope with the +/- 20 offset inserts turned 90^o to give me some windage.