Thread: Scope adjustment issues

Greetings All,
I have had my own set of drama's mounting and adjusting scopes. A few years ago I had mounted an old Pecar 6 power scope on my M38 6.5x55 and ran out of adjustment. Turned out that the scope blocks were a little out of line with the barrel and those Pecar scopes have bugger all adjustment in the first place. I ran the windage adjustment through its range, counted the clicks and then back to half way. A test shot and some calcs showed a 1 mm shim was reguired so a bit of aluminium (actually 0.75mm) was cut and fitted between the base and ring dovetail. Problem solved. I could have changed the mount to one with a windage adjustment but the scope had a 26mm tube and the mount could have cost more than the rifle was worth. I had the rifle out to the range a couple of weeks back and the first two shots were bang on and less than 1 MoA apart in spite of the first shot being from a cold clean barrel. I must take it for a walk in the bush one day.
Regards Grandpamac.