Hello;
New-ish owner of 4595TS. Grew up in farm/deer-hunting country with rimfires and shotguns - this is my first center-fire rifle, but I am familiar with shooting/sights, etc.
Have put several hundred rounds through carbine at this point, mostly just to break it in - haven't been too concerned with zeroing until today.
Shooting from bench-rest, my groupings were fairly good, but consistently low and quite left. If I aimed at the right edge of the target, I could consistently center the shots.
Since I was only 4-5" low, I raised the back sight several clicks and this seemed to work, rather than dropping the front sight, which seemed like it would be more difficult to do incrementally and testing/repeat.
While adjusting windage, however, I kept moving the back sight right (and still grouping left) until my rear sight is completely pegged on the right side (the last vertical marker on the right), and still several inches left of center on target.
The range I was at today only had 25-yard lanes open (I would have liked to have zeroed at 15 if possible), so I was having some trouble tracking all the shots.
My question - is there a better way to make macro adjustments to traverse (using front sight maybe - thought it was allen-screwed in at center); or is it fairly common to have this rifle's sights pinned that far off center?
Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
New-ish owner of 4595TS. Grew up in farm/deer-hunting country with rimfires and shotguns - this is my first center-fire rifle, but I am familiar with shooting/sights, etc.
Have put several hundred rounds through carbine at this point, mostly just to break it in - haven't been too concerned with zeroing until today.
Shooting from bench-rest, my groupings were fairly good, but consistently low and quite left. If I aimed at the right edge of the target, I could consistently center the shots.
Since I was only 4-5" low, I raised the back sight several clicks and this seemed to work, rather than dropping the front sight, which seemed like it would be more difficult to do incrementally and testing/repeat.
While adjusting windage, however, I kept moving the back sight right (and still grouping left) until my rear sight is completely pegged on the right side (the last vertical marker on the right), and still several inches left of center on target.
The range I was at today only had 25-yard lanes open (I would have liked to have zeroed at 15 if possible), so I was having some trouble tracking all the shots.
My question - is there a better way to make macro adjustments to traverse (using front sight maybe - thought it was allen-screwed in at center); or is it fairly common to have this rifle's sights pinned that far off center?
Any advice appreciated. Thanks.