Originally Posted by
yobuck
Very good post, you first bore sighted the gun by looking thru the bore and aligning it on the orange sticker, then without moving the gun, aligned the scope on it.
Another way is to use an empty case (with the primer removed), and placed in the chamber first.
That acts like an abature in an iron site and makes the big barrel hole smaller.
As you have shown, you can (almost) zero a gun without firing it by carefully bore sighting.
As for the second shot, what you did is use an old method known as (the one shot zero).
It would behoove anybody interested in shooting, and especially at long range to become proficient with this method.
(learn to use the dial), and the type of scope you have becomes less important.
Lets say you shoot at a small rock or a milk jug at 800 yds. You enter all the data into your favorite device, and arrive at the proper amount of scope adjustment necessary for the shot.
But your first shot hits low and about a foot to the right, and frankly it wouldn't matter if it was 4 ft.
What you now have is better than any device you could buy regardless of cost, that being a sighter shot hit.
Hold the gun very steady on the aiming point (the jug), or the animal, and then turn the dials till the reticle is aligned on where the bullet hit. Be carefull when looking into the scope while dialing and keeping your mind right as to direction the reticle is moving.
Remember that in order for the shot to go higher, the reticle must go down, and when you dial up it does. Same with left and right.
