Re: Bushnell Elite Tactical zeroing
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BobD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Zupermac,
I would like try to elaborate on what some have said to you as seems you might be misunderstanding how your resettable zero is intended to work. I will try to make this basic only to demonstrate why your turret cap remains in the same place horizontally after your zero.
Your scope posesses a certain amount of elevation adjustment from its optical center (numbers only for ease of demonstration) maybe 60moa total travel, giving you 30 up and 30 down before zeroing. To access this adjustment lets say your dial reads 15 moa, this would require you to make 4 complete turns to go through the entire scale. The optical center in this case would be after 2 complete turns. The numbers and moa/mil scle are irrelavant, the concept is the same.
After mounting and zeroing, your dial will be on a level thats dependent to what base/rings you used, zero distance etc...
Now, you would like to use your resettable feature... This only changes the position of the dial and the direction the numbers are facing, it does not reset which level its on. The indexing marks you are referring to are an indication of how many rotations have been made and what level the dial is on currently. They are reference marks; they provide you from just a quick glance how many rotations you are from your zero. If you need to dial quickly, you may find them useful.
Zero stop: i would venture to say that most scopes do not have a true zero stop. This takes the concept a bit further to prevent losing track of zero by working on a specific click and rotatation of the dial on a certain level. This is usually used in tandem with a resettable zero, so that the 0 is lined up and you cannot travel below it.
Also, if you were attempting this for aesthetic purposes It wouldnt work... If you zeroed at 100 meters and the cap was at the bottom you would not be able to dial without bottoming out at the base.
I hope this was able to clear a bit up for you. I'm not making any presumtions to your level of experience, i just figured it might help with the language issue you brought up to start from there.
Good luck to you </div></div>
Thank you BobD,
I understand your post and I can read English with ease. The problem is (for me) when I want to write sentences correctly. Words and phrases are different in my language, therefore it can be wrong sometimes.
Ex. "turrent" is not a word in my language. When I write "turrent" in my language, the english translation is, "steering wheel". My laguage have compound words you divide.
The funny thing is, when I copy your text and pasted it in Google Trans. I could not understand the translation to my language at all. It is easier for me to read your text in englinsh than to try to translate it (with Google). It's a big difference between regular "everyday" English and technical English, especially in terms of weapons and shooting.
When I read your text, I understand that:
Now that I have set the scope to zero (turrent) at 100 meter and the turrent is at the 3rd line (or so). I understaind that I can adust the turrent up and down from this position, but the reason why I wanted a zero stop (or actually to turn the turrent to the bottom when the scope is shooting at 100 meter) is because: I'm not in need of shoting shorter then 100 meter. I want to the adjustment to start at 100 meter and be able to use the hole adjustment range for longer distances. Do you understaind what I mean?
Now that I have this scope that can't haldle this (zero stop) as I want, I have to accept the problem or buy a new scope. I'm thinking of buying a 20 MOA base to be able to shoot from 100 meter up to 1000 meter or more.
At the moment I don't know how many klick I have to be able to shoot 1000 meter. If I have enough now, I won't do anything and accept the scope as it is.
I'm using .308.
Thanks,
