Thread: FINALLY got my LR come ups

Originally Posted by Maca49

I'm glad I buy my rifles with scopes fitted and sighted in, can't piss round with this shit!! ,I've got bloodshot eyes reading it

@Maca49, you need professional help ... you're not OCD enough

Up your intensity fella !!

Originally Posted by longrange308

can you do it this way but drop to 5 or 10m and multiply the results? or would that introduce errors
would make it easyer to see
but its somthing i need to do with both of mine

You can, but resolution will obviously be down. Not many people are set
Up to do it properly, or even have the space required.

These days I just send my scopes to someone set up to do it and pay the invoice when/if it shows up

Originally Posted by kiwi39

@Maca49, you need professional help ... you're not OCD enough

Up your intensity fella !!

You realise, with a bit of age, there are more important things in life than being a perfectionist! I aim, I squeeze, not pull!!thee trigger, and if it goes WAP, and falls over or if a little black hole appears in the centre of the the target, or the gong gongs IM aas happy as shit. Its really easy

Happy as a pig chocker up a sow in a stye full of mud huh Maca?

I dont make a pig of myself anymore Rushy that comes with age as well!!

Having somebody set it up is something I snorted at - but this time I've seen the benefits of it being done right on. I had the correct bore attachment and a collimator used, i thought "oh yeah but". But-nothing! My cold clean shot hit low and left 3 clicks - it then settled right on. I've never seen that before

Originally Posted by Proudkiwi

You can't be that stupid, surely??

That's a completely different subject .The topic I'm commenting on is shooting to test click values and that is it. A topic you raised.

Your method introduces way to much "noise" to ever be able to get any valuable info at all. Trust me when I say you are not that good a shot. No one in the world is.

If you want to test a scope for click values you need to remove the scope from the rifle, clamp it in a way that it will not be able to move at all, ideally in a vise mounted on a concrete bench for example.

Then place a measured chart at exactly the correct distance (100mtr for mil turrets etc) and wind away observing your ret against the chart.

Your method is so flawed its a joke.

But again, whatever makes you happy.

The fact is most people don't have the space or equipment to do it 'your' way. Shooting the group and adjusting then re shooting a group may not be 100% correct but it gets you damn close and it's easy to do. Litz does it on his DVD and it seemed to work just fine out to 800m I think that he used that rifle to?

Isolating the one variable you're interested in.... that is good test methodology. If just the accuracy of the scope then I'd be checking in this way straight after purchase looking for ideally +/- one click accuracy and part-click backlash in a top-end product, right through the range, both axes. If the error is more, then that is the time to consider returning it. If you can live with it, document it and factor it into the dropchart. That said the last dial-up scope I did this with had a 30% error in the elevation turret so pretty much any method would have pick it up!

On test distance it comes down to ability to focus the scope sufficiently well to see the calibrated markings on the target and eliminate the possibility of any parallax error. For these reasons if the scope is fixed- focus the backyard is probably not going to work.

....remove the scope from the rifle, clamp it in a way that it will not be able to move at all...

doesn't take that much ingenuity to find a way to achieve this surely, or leave it in place and clamp the rifle ?

Drill and tap a block of steel and mount a rail to it. should be heavy enough to not move when clicking the turrets

A piece of 150x50 with ply screwed on each side, half-circles of the appropriate diameter for the tube to rest in, sash clamped back to a bench in this case. It can be clamped to whatever is handy at the local sports field or the range for checking things at 100m and beyond. Elastic is used to tension the scope down into the recesses and also prevent it from getting accidentally knocked onto the ground. Can rotate 90 to check windage on the same scale as elevation (see below).



This is the other end of the arrangement. The tripod gives flexibility for setting up at any distance. The bar in this case is marked up at 100mm spacings for confirming mrad at 100m.

Had a good day out today - A solid first round hit to a plate at 780m then these two on a 9" plate at 1010m. Feeling brave i tried the data off the app out to the 1200m gong and it only took 3 (for me that was 16.8 mils. Thanks again fellas - days like this improve the shooting immeasurably

Originally Posted by Dead is better

Had a good day out today - A solid first round hit to a plate at 780m then these two on a 9" plate at 1010m. Feeling brave i tried the data off the app out to the 1200m gong and it only took 3 (for me that was 16.8 mils. Thanks again fellas - days like this improve the shooting immeasurably


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Sweet shooting,thanks for the invite!

You were shooting like a man possessed. A first round hit at a kilometre followed up by another to prove it wasn't a fluke is legend mate. But I need to burst your bubble as the gong was ten inches not nine. Still under a minute of angle though. Well done.

HAHA bubble half burst - I'll meet you half way. 9.5" (it was a cold day and your targets had shrunk!!)

Good shootin