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Old 07-18-2011, 07:34 PM
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At what distance does the manufacture sight in the stock iron sights at? 50 yrds or less?
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Welcome.

I'm going to venture a guess that the sights are set for a hundred but the gun isn't "zeroed" by the company per se. I think the company would fire enough rounds to determine if function is correct and send it on it's way.
With all the variables once the gun is in the new owners hands, including ammo, atmospherics, the shooter's stance and hold and so on an so forth, the company would be waisting time on something the new owner will change anyway.

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It's a moot point. After you thoroughly clean the rifle, you take it to the range to sight it in anyway. I've never had a new rifle that was correctly sighted in when I took possession of it.

I also can't think of a rifle that I kept the factory sights on much longer than it took to ensure that the rifle was functioning correctly. Once I got past that part of ownership, the factory sights are removed, and I install something "better".
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A factory "zero" on an adjustable sight weapon is much like the boresighting service that so many people waste money on. You will remove it your very first range trip when you do your actual zeroing. To be honest I doubt the person that test fired your weapon even looked at the sights when they did it. They probably shot off five rounds into a test tank as fast as they could and put it back on the rack.
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