Well seasoned with ballistics and SUT/military training but getting into long range.
Since 99.9% of my gear is all 5.56 I opted for Ruger Precision Rifle 5.56 to at least get going. I purchased a razor vortex 4.5-27x56 and a nightforce 20moa Mount.
I couldn’t get on paper at 25y, even with my elevation turret maxed “down”. I had to aim at the bottom edge of the paper to hit 8” higher. I sat down and googled on my phone. The Ruger is 20moa so I was at 40 moa give or take (rifle 20 + 20 from the mount). So I sat in my car for a bit and read that the moa should be no more than half of the scopes max elevation adjustment which according to Vortex 28.5 mil for me. I was within that, so I should be able to adjust to zero my scope. For kicks, and since I was at the range with my downward adjustment maxed already I shot at 100yds it was approx 3 feet high.
I then thought what the hell, I put the nightforce mount on backwards (guessing that would zero me(rifle 20, with now -20 from the backwards mount)) and was now about 5.5mil low and adjusted up to zero my rifle perfectly.
Am I doing something wrong? It would seem to me I need either a zero mil mount or at most a 3mil..... I was asking others at the range too and everyone was clueless.
My proposed solution is returning my 20moa nightforce unimount, and get a zero mount, or try to zero at 1000 yds lol. Maybe that will lower the drop enough sheesh.
Thank you for any insight.
Since 99.9% of my gear is all 5.56 I opted for Ruger Precision Rifle 5.56 to at least get going. I purchased a razor vortex 4.5-27x56 and a nightforce 20moa Mount.
I couldn’t get on paper at 25y, even with my elevation turret maxed “down”. I had to aim at the bottom edge of the paper to hit 8” higher. I sat down and googled on my phone. The Ruger is 20moa so I was at 40 moa give or take (rifle 20 + 20 from the mount). So I sat in my car for a bit and read that the moa should be no more than half of the scopes max elevation adjustment which according to Vortex 28.5 mil for me. I was within that, so I should be able to adjust to zero my scope. For kicks, and since I was at the range with my downward adjustment maxed already I shot at 100yds it was approx 3 feet high.
I then thought what the hell, I put the nightforce mount on backwards (guessing that would zero me(rifle 20, with now -20 from the backwards mount)) and was now about 5.5mil low and adjusted up to zero my rifle perfectly.
Am I doing something wrong? It would seem to me I need either a zero mil mount or at most a 3mil..... I was asking others at the range too and everyone was clueless.
My proposed solution is returning my 20moa nightforce unimount, and get a zero mount, or try to zero at 1000 yds lol. Maybe that will lower the drop enough sheesh.
Thank you for any insight.
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