Thread: Best way to sight in my parker hale 308

To start if I were you and had no idea I d get someone to bore sight it. You can do it yourself by clamping it down and looking through the barrel to line it up on the wall on a cross or something.
Then look through the scope and adjust it so it too is on the cross or nail or whatever. Don't bump it or move it. Check through the barrel to make sure it doesn't move while you adjust the scope
Get that roughly right and you should be on paper at 25 or 30 mtrs. Fire two rounds at the paper see where they go. Adjust to get close as possible to the vertical line first. If it hitting right at the bottom or top bring it up or down a little to allow you to tune the vertical first. If you get the vertical correct it should need none or very little further out. If you cant get it to stabilise on the vertical you gonna need to check mounts etc and scope alignment. Don't overheat so if the barrel gets hot take a break. Stabilise the vertical first if you cant may as well try to figure out where the problem is. No point proceeding itll never be right.
Once vertical stabilised set horizontal to be couple inches above the horizontal and that should get you on the paper at 100 . You can go to fifty first look down barrel and through scope to see approx. whats going on.
That's gotta be enough for you to be starting with. Sight it in over a few days if possible as it just will get better every little tweak.

Cheers Happy