What distance for scope sighting?

kombos

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I have a Primary Arms M3-multi.

Am curious at what distance most people sight their scopes to hit dead on?
 
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That really depends on how high you got your scope mounted and how far you plan on shooting.. I've got mine as low as I can get it to the barrel so when I'm zeroed at 50 at 10 I'm about 2" low.. but everyone has their own way they like their weapons setup and no ones way is wrong as long as it works for them
 
Thanks for the reply.

Right now I have a low mount I'm trying (removed the iron sights). I also have the high version mount I could use but I think I'm reasonably comfortable with the lower one.
 
On most any rifle the general rule of thumb is get the scope as close to the bore as possible. High velocity .22lr has roughly a 75 yard point blank range. After 100 yards the bullet drops like a rock. Ballistics tables are avilable for high velocty .22 somewhere out there.
 
Here's what I do with my .22LR rifles.

Sight in 1/4" high at 25 yrds. That will give you a max point blank range of approx. 65 yrds (with most normal loads). Which means from 0-65 yrds you will be hitting inside a 1" circle.
 
Kombos,
you need to decide at what distance you are going to be shooting at The most whether it is 20feet or 200 yrds. And sight it in at that. There is no magical distance that will put you dead on all the time. Personally all of my guns are sighted in at 62 yards, why an odd number? It's the distance from my bench to my backstop
 
75 yards appears ideal for a battlesight zero with this rifle. Taking into account the sight height above bore and the ballistics of .22LR with a muzzle velocity about 1250 fps.

Bullseye zero will be different for every range and a Mil-Dot scope is probably an excessive expense for a .22. I'm using a 4 MOA dot at 50 yards and it holds zero quite will.

-- Chuck
 
Generally, the closer you sight it in at, the more extreme the variance is.

There's a thead started by "das friek" about his sighting in issues that was quite educational for me.

He sighted in at something like 50' and had a hard time keeping it on the paper, much less in the X ring.
 
please take that thread away.. its a dark spot in 15-22 history :D
 
please take that thread away.. its a dark spot in 15-22 history :D

Is that the one where TC lectures the readership about the self lift generating spinning bullet? If so.... I agree with you.... close the thread before more 15-22 members enter early Forum retirement. :(
 
Hey, it was educational for me!

(and, in the end, the basics of the POI being low-on-high-on-low were correct, just the reason for that was wrong!)
 
If you guys had stuck to what the thread was about instead of going off into the mechanics on bullets it would have been alot more fun.
But in the end i learned the gun was fine and how to sight it in, But didn't learn a thing about bullets as i didn't read that as i have enough headaches on my own.

But if you skip that stuff it explains alot on how to sight in this rifle with a scope. The big thing is keep the scope as low to the rail as possible and your eyes and neck allow.
 
Here's what I do with my .22LR rifles.

Sight in 1/4" high at 25 yrds. That will give you a max point blank range of approx. 65 yrds (with most normal loads). Which means from 0-65 yrds you will be hitting inside a 1" circle.
<----- this works well if you arent planning on going to any match shooting with your 15-22. ;) im sure everyone has an opinion but i always do this and it works well for me.
 
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