.17hmr range report

[lostsniper308]

Well i took me brand new Sportster out with a new BSA 3-12 Sweet 17. I set the AO for 50yrds and had at it. Good 1" groups considering no tinkering, new barrel, Remington ammo which i heard sportsters don't like. Went to 100yrds and AHH the image is blurry..messed with the focus on the eye bell, little bit better....oh AO is still at 50yrds    :-D. so stupid me made me panic for nothing. Never got a 100yrd group really just kinda 1 shot adjust, 1more adjust, another adjust. im just messin right now.

[quickdtoo]

Sounds like ya had fun, anyway....you need to adjust the scope to your vision, here's a step by step...

http://rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24915

Tim

[lostsniper308]

Yea i do most of this anyway. I don't know if this is possible but im getting the impression the elevation knob is 1/8th and windage is 1/4th(which it is). this is a little more of my dumbness, but while i was cleaning the rifle the patches after a while came out exaclty the same color(yellowish) then it dawned on me this color is the color of CLP i was using,  :-D  uhhhhhh it never gets old for me, so i was cleaning a clean gun

[Coastwatcher]

Sounds like your having fun while you learn.  It never gets old that way.  As far as your scope adjustments go, I've found that on the budget scopes that I don't put much faith in the amount of movement you should get from 1 click.  It might say 1/4 MOA but take it with a grain of salt and keep track of your actual results.  Hopefully its consistent so that you can know how much change you will actually get.

Good Luck.

Around my house Handis are known as "Weapons of Mass Distraction"

[lostsniper308]

i sure hope its consistant other wise the trajectory cam is almost useless. and this'll sound wierd but my scope smells like a new shoe :-D  must be the rubber grips