Can someone give me advice on how to sight my scope on my air rilfe so it is perfectly accurate?

Question

Can someone give me advice on how to sight my scope on my air rilfe so it is perfectly accurate?

Answer 1

heres an alternate way to zero your scope with your gun.

set up a piece of cardboard at 15 ft. make a small 1" dot in the center of the cardboard. now lay your gun on a firm rest and hold the crosshairs dead on the center of the dot. fire one shot and look to see where the pellet hit the target. color a 1" dot over the pellet hole, so it is easy to see. now go back and put the cross hairs directly on the original dot, just like you were when you fired the first shot.



now, while holding the rifle steady. have someone else turn the sight adjustment till it lines up on the second dot, where your shot went.

be sure you do not let the gun move while adjusting the sight.

after your adjustment, fire another shot at the original dot. if you hit it, the guns sighted in and you only fired 2 shots.

from this point, fine tuning is easy.

Answer 2

First of all, make sure you have a good back stop to catch your pellets....a big sand bank is about the best. Safety first!   Start by shooting fairly close to your target, say 20'.  Use a big piece of card board to place you target on, it'll make it easy to see where you're hitting if you miss the target completely.  Shoot from a solid rest.  Take 5 shots, detemine the center of your group, and adust the scope accordingly.  Once you have your pellet gun sighted in at this range, move back to whatever distance you want the gun sighted in for, and repeat the process.

Answer 3

shoot it adjust it,,,shoot it adjust it,,,shoot it adjust it...

Answer 4

You'll want to do a couple things.

First you need to pick a distance you want to shoot at.

The pellet will have different points of impact for diffrerent points of aim at varioius distances.

So if you zero for 25 yards you may be an inch low at 50 yards for exampe.

You'll also want a steady location to shoot off of. A picnic table would be pretty good a real shooting bench would be ideal.

Then you would shoot some groups at a target using all the same type of pellets until you get zeroed for that range.

once you are zeroed you can see where your point of aim and point of impact are for closer or farther distances. Pellet weight will come into play as well.

I hope that helps some what.

Cliff notes:

Pick a distance

Find a steady place to shoot from

Use consistent pellets.

Answer 5

first, make sure the scope is designed for air rifles.  Air rifles that are piston types actually recoil FORWARD while real rifles recoil BACK.  A scope designed to face one kind of recoil will have it's internal bits arranged in a way to withstand that direction, going another direction will cause the bits to shake loose after some shooting.

second, make sure your scope is solidly mounted.  Use blue loc-tight on the threads, and s***w the base down hard.  Depending on the ring type, do the same with the bottom rings.

now, mount the scope, and again, clamp those rings down hard on the scope, and hard onto the base.

Okay, time for some shooting.  Look at the dials on the scope (you may need to unscrew the covers on the dials), they should say how many inches it will move at 100 yards. Probably 1/4 or 1/2 inch per click at 100 yards.

Measure out a target that is 10 yards away from the front of the scope.  See, as we are 10 times closer, 10 clicks will move the crosshairs 1/4th inch (or whatever yours is set for)

Get a steady rest and shoot at the target 3 times. (note on steady rest, a card table or picnic table works good, a bag filled with sand you can rest your gun on is a big help, but a pillow will work too.  Shoot for the exact same spot each time, but ignore where your actual shots are hitting.

Now, look at the 3 shots.

How close they are to EACHOTHER is a matter of skill, and no scope will help you improve that.

How close to the bull's eye they are as a group is a factor of your scope being adjusted properly or not.  So, look at those 3, and imagine a circle that encloses all of them.  Put a dot where the center of this circle would be, then cross out the holes so you don't get confused by them later.

now, measure how many inches left/right and up/down.  using those inches and fraction of inches, covert it to 'clicks'

If your shots landed 2 inches LEFT of the bull's eye, click 80 times in the LEFT direction.  If your shots landed 1 inch high, then also click 40 clicks in the UP direction.

Now test out your new zero.

Remember if you aren't able to keep the 3 shots very close to eachother when aiming at a single spot, no amount of scope adjustment will help you, only practice and concentraion will help

Answer 6

First you are going to have to determing if your air rilfe, is tack driving accurate. you will need to make some kind of gun stand that will hold you air rilfe very steady. Set up a traget in a safe way, about 25 feet. and fire you air rilfe a couple of times with out moving it. You should have a very tight partern, if not your air gun is just a nother air gun. If you have a tight patern, sight you scope to the center of the patern, If you shoot at less than 25 feet, aim below your target, over 25 feet aim higher, the longer distances. when I was shooting BBs with friend and family, on the farm, we would shoot a 5000 box of BBs in a couple of weeks.