old lady new shooter
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That sounds like a good plan, it's kind of doing it twice but OTOH it makes more sense if this is the first time I'm gonna be shooting it at 25 yards. (I did have one lesson and then a range visit, at both of which I used this exact model. That was before COVID, at my inside range the targets can be moved in whatever increments a person wants, I think I started at 10 yards and kept moving back about 2 yards at a time, got up to 17 yards before I got tired, but all the shots went into the 10 area. But I've never fired one further than that.)Also, if the optic has never been zeroed before, it’s good to start at 11 or 25 yards to get it pretty well aligned (shoot a couple of rounds while aiming at the center of the target and see where those rounds hit, adjust the optic to move the impacts toward the center or a bit below center, then repeat). Once you’re roughed in at close range, move the target back to the desired range and repeat, shooting 3 rounds and then fine-tuning the adjustment at the desired range.
The documentation says it's approximately zeroed at the factory. Thanks to kind advice I did do a rough zero at about 15 yards in my house by taping a target up, securely positioning the upper so I could see the center of the target through the bore, then without moving it, adjusting the sight until the dot was on the center of the target.There is nothing more frustrating when zeroing than to start too far away and have your rounds missing the paper in some unknown direction.