Thread: River to Ranges to sight in rifle?

Originally Posted by jpurdon

Has anyone had experience with Rivers to Ranges in Rangiora to sight in their rifle?

I have a Remington 700 ADL model with a Leupold VXIII 3.5-10x40 w/ 1 inch tube. It has Boone and Crocket reticle too so I am looking at taking it to R&R for them to sight in for $100 which I think is pretty reasonable.

I know I can do it myself but I think its worth the $100 for peace of mind, plus I don't have easy access to a range.

Will supply them with some Hornady 145gr ELD-X as the sighting load.

Thoughts?

could you please just take your rifle to a range and zero it like the rest of us - it will put us out of our misery reading all this thanks

Sorted cheers team

Originally Posted by jpurdon

Sorted cheers team

How? Lot of advice here. What of it did you take?

Having a properly sighted in rifle is essential for successful hunting and if long range shooting, you need an accurately setup ballistic app or drop chart but this not something a lot of hunters can do properly, so if you can’t, why not pay for it? When setting up ballistic apps or making drop charts, take the stated velocity and ballistic coefficient on the ammo box or from the manufacturer with a grain of salt. Velocity in many cases is serval hundred FPS slower and ballistic coefficients are lower so projectile drop will be a lot more than expected at long range. Different brands of ammo and especially bullet weights can have a huge impact on where a rifle shoots. The only way to get an accurate velocity is to use a chronograph and to find actual bullet drop is to shoot at long range. The rifle needs to held rock solid on sandbags or a sandbag and front bench rest, so shooter error is removed. Once that is done, a ballistic app can be set up properly. This is the service James offers along with initial sight ins at 100 yards. A properly sighted in rifle will have the same point of impact IMO.