My #1 son pulled his new unfired 6.5creed AR10 from his truck and headed for our shooting bench. The sun sets shortly after lunch around here, and we didn't have much daylight left to shoot.....but he needed to get sighted in. I grabbed my binos and my electronic muffs and was going to spot for him.
It dawned on me that I had mounted a new nikon prostaff 2.5x10 on my farm rifle, (may 30th)but had yet to sight it in! (Dont give me too many thr demerits for my laziness, my rifle does have good offset irons on it!)
We set up a 50yd target basically to get our scopes on target.
Sons AR10 wears a Vortex Hoghunter 4x12(iirc) he was on paper with his first shots and quickly dialed in to his 50yd bullseye.
I bought a new 2.5x10x42 nikon prostaff from fellow THR member
@giggitygiggity and mounted it on my Ruger SR556 last May
Forgive my crappy pics, I wasn't smart enough to take any from the shooting bench. These were from the day I mounted it.
Within a few shots we had my rifle dialed in. I put a thumbnail sized piece of electrical tape on a fresh white pizza box target because the light was yielding to darkness and I was hoping to see the final shots on the white target.
We were shooting off the bench and rested on Caldwell bags. I was down to making single click adjustments on the nikon. I fired a group of three at my tiny bullseye expecting to see a group very near. Nothing. I hoped that they landed in the black, and fired three more. Darkness was on us, and #1 son went out to pull the targets. He yelled back, "I think you're good, chief". All six holes were in that tiny piece of black tape!
It may not be too impressive, but it was pretty satisfying under the circumstances. The SR556 has always been a good shooter. I am impressed with the Nikons light gathering abilities. Too bad they're out of business.
this unfortunate guy was 400yds out.
I'm going to do a little research as to what yardage I want my zero. If I recall, a 50yd zero is an inch high at 100, and on at 200. If so, I may just leave it as is.
My apologies for the ramblings, but I was in need of a good range outing.