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New Rifle Scope Setup
Aug 24th, 2025 at 11:21pm
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I would appreciate learning how experienced shooters go about setting up a scope. I recently purchased a previously owned DZ arms 8x scope and mounts. Should I center the crosshairs? Is counting lines the best way to center them? How do you level the crosshairs? Any other tips would be greatly appreciated. I will be using the scope to shoot.22 bpcr. Thanks, Tom
  
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Re: New Rifle Scope Setup
Reply #1 - Aug 25th, 2025 at 9:15am
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If you're DZ scope has the high mount in the rear which gives you the extra elevation then you shouldn't have to worry about being able to shoot to the maximum distance. Put your rifle in a padded vice or cradle and make sure it is plum up and down. Use a piece of tape or cardboard with a line on the wall and level it.  Do it some distance away from the rifle so that the line or tape is clear and you can adjust your crosshairs to match the line on the wall. If the crosshair is not level, there are two small screws on the second ring that you can loosen but don't take out and you can rotate that ring because it is connected to the cell that holds the cross hairs. When you get the cross hairs level then retighten the screws. Now take your rifle to the range and get it sighted in at 50 or 100 yards. If you've used up a lot of windage either right or left, there are two small allen head screws on both turrets. It takes a very small allen wrench to loosen those screws and then you can rotate the cylinder and line it up to zero which will give you equal windage on both sides. Then retighten so that they don't move on you. I like to set my scopes with a zero left and right and then the readings are just like using a Soule sight.
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Re: New Rifle Scope Setup
Reply #2 - Aug 25th, 2025 at 1:15pm
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Old-Win, thanks for the information. Tom
  
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Reply #3 - Aug 25th, 2025 at 3:26pm
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Old-Win has provided one of the best solutions for most scopes and mounts. You can scan countless catalogs with all kinds of devices that won't generally get you there any better and of course will run you some peso's. 

When I was a kid sweeping Sierra Bullet's shop floors after my paper route, Mr. Frank Snow who was the founder of Sierra and next door neighbor showed me the same procedure. I still use it and I've never owned a bore sighter. He are olso advised me to always adjust your turrets two clicks past then come back to your setting. This was for internal adjusting scope only. Not sure if you guys still do this. 

Rick
  
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Re: New Rifle Scope Setup
Reply #4 - Aug 26th, 2025 at 8:45am
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In the past I used to have a home-made "rifle vise" that I used for bore sighting. Now I have a Lothar Walther combination vise with cork padded jaws on one side. My process has always been to position the rifle pointed at a blank wall then looking through the bore position a piece of marking tape with a black spot on the wall where the barrel is pointing. Can take a little time by trial and error but goes quickly, an assistant helps but is not required. I then adjust the scope or iron sights to be just above the black spot then head to the range.

Once I installed a new Leupold Ultra M2, 10X scope on a friend's Steyr SSG rifle in Germany. I was living in an apartment with only about 30 feet of usable hallway for bore sighting so I did the best I could. When we got to the range the shooters were on the 300m line, so no chance to shoot at shorter distance. As a matter of process when anyone opened the range they would place a handful of clay pigeons on the bare earth berm for use in rough zeroing since the impact could be easily spotted. My friend got down in a solid, rested prone and with the first shot broke a pigeon..... every piggy finds an acorn....
  

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