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emonthedemon
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how do you zero the turrets.I think I screwed up Friday,I took the center torx screw out & now I have no clicks & the point of impact has change so much that I'm not even on the target. Larry
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gt40
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I hear that Leupold has a good repair service. Bet they will fix it for you. 
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abintx
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Once you get your clicks back ...
to MECHANICALLY ZERO your scope simply move your Elevation all the way to the farthest setting it will go either up or down, but don't try to overturn once you reach the end of movement. Once there, count every click from one end of the adjustment to the opposite end of the adjustment and write the number down. Do this in a quiet setting so you can hear each click. With 1/8" click adjustments you can have a few hundred clicks, so be patient. I write down the number I am at, if I want to take a break, so when I resume counting, I know what count to resume at.
Once you've counted in one direction, count back in the opposite direction to verify your original count. Once you have verified the number of clicks, divide that number by 2. This new number gives you the half way setting and puts you in the MECHANICAL CENTER of the Elevation adjustment. Set your elevation that number of clicks from where movement stopped.
Go through the same process for Windage.
NOTE: After all this hard work write down the number of clicks for Elevation and Windage from one end to the other, and half that number and put them in a safe place. When the HALF WAY numbers for Elevation and Windage are adjusted into your scope you have "MECHANICAL ZERO." Do this for each scope you own, even if they are identical scopes, because they all vary a little. Knowing these numbers makes it much easier the next time you may have to MECHANICALLY ZERO your scope. Hope this helps ...
to MECHANICALLY ZERO your scope simply move your Elevation all the way to the farthest setting it will go either up or down, but don't try to overturn once you reach the end of movement. Once there, count every click from one end of the adjustment to the opposite end of the adjustment and write the number down. Do this in a quiet setting so you can hear each click. With 1/8" click adjustments you can have a few hundred clicks, so be patient. I write down the number I am at, if I want to take a break, so when I resume counting, I know what count to resume at.
Once you've counted in one direction, count back in the opposite direction to verify your original count. Once you have verified the number of clicks, divide that number by 2. This new number gives you the half way setting and puts you in the MECHANICAL CENTER of the Elevation adjustment. Set your elevation that number of clicks from where movement stopped.
Go through the same process for Windage.
NOTE: After all this hard work write down the number of clicks for Elevation and Windage from one end to the other, and half that number and put them in a safe place. When the HALF WAY numbers for Elevation and Windage are adjusted into your scope you have "MECHANICAL ZERO." Do this for each scope you own, even if they are identical scopes, because they all vary a little. Knowing these numbers makes it much easier the next time you may have to MECHANICALLY ZERO your scope. Hope this helps ...
Landers
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Larry,
Here is a link. You may want to call Leupold (first).
http://www.leupold.com/corporate/contact-us/service-support-u-s-/
Hope this helps.
Here is a link. You may want to call Leupold (first).
http://www.leupold.com/corporate/contact-us/service-support-u-s-/
Hope this helps.
Basically you screwed up. Try and hold the turret and put the torx screw back in. Once it is back unscrew it only a turn or two. It only needs to come up a bit and then you can push the turret down away from the teeth inside and against spring pressure to allow you to zero it. When done screw it back down and do not over tighten it.
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Stonewall
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Cut two v noches in a cardboard box - use this to hold the scope .Rotate you scope while looking at a target . The crosshairs will be centered when the image -poi doesn't move .
Glenn
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Dave Short
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Art & Glenn,
Larry does not want to find the center of the adjustment travel. He wants to set the turret graduations at zero once he has the rifle sighted in, so that he can go back to zero after having made a change in the original setting.
-Dave-
Larry does not want to find the center of the adjustment travel. He wants to set the turret graduations at zero once he has the rifle sighted in, so that he can go back to zero after having made a change in the original setting.
-Dave-
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Stonewall
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Woops!
In that case sell leupold -buy March . Use the adjustment cover to reset zero. Works for me.
Glenn
In that case sell leupold -buy March . Use the adjustment cover to reset zero. Works for me.
Glenn
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abintx
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Dave:
When someone states that they can't get on paper or the target that tells me they're possibly lost. If you can't get on target, then going back to Position Alpha is a good way to restart the 3-step process of Mechanical Zero, Sighted In, and Zero Turret Adjustment. Going through the entire process builds confidence in your scope through knowing it is adjusted properly.
When someone states that they can't get on paper or the target that tells me they're possibly lost. If you can't get on target, then going back to Position Alpha is a good way to restart the 3-step process of Mechanical Zero, Sighted In, and Zero Turret Adjustment. Going through the entire process builds confidence in your scope through knowing it is adjusted properly.
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Dave Short
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Art,
Larry stated that he was off of the paper ONLY after having removed a screw that he probably should have not removed. He states that he's using a 45x LCS.......a Benchrest scope. Unless something is screwed up or just flat broken, we don't have any trouble at all getting on paper. As a matter of fact, I don't know very many guys who can't just look down the bore, center it on the paper, click to the center, and hit the paper on the first shot. As far as having confidence through knowing the scope is adjusted properly......since when does being at the center of the scopes range of adjustment constitute benig adjusted properly?
-Dave-
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geneinnc
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guilty as charged on this end. i assumed that after you had zeroed the scope in, you could use the same method as my Vari X II 6 x 18 target turrets.
I loosened the torx screw, paid no attention to the reference lines at the bottom of the turret, set it to zero, tightened it up and and it was no where near being on the paper, much less the target.
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abintx
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Dave:
It doesn't! Being at the center of a scope's range of adjustment is only the "start" of a process.
As far as having confidence through knowing the scope is adjusted properly......since when does being at the center of the scopes range of adjustment constitute benig adjusted properly?
-Dave-
It doesn't! Being at the center of a scope's range of adjustment is only the "start" of a process.
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Dave Short
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The "process":
1)Put the scope on the rifle, leaving rings slightly loose.
2)Hang target plumb, level gun, square crosshairs to target, tighten rings.
3)Look through the bore (with bolt removed) and center it on the target.
4)Click the scope to the center of the target, (be careful not to disturb the gun).
5)Fire one shot.
6)Put the cross hair back on the original aiming point and click to the bullet hole.
7)Fire another shot.
8)Make final (minute) adjustments as necessary.
Elapsed time: 10 to 15 minutes.
-Dave-
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emonthedemon
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I know how to zero the scope,its just after I got the gun hitting where I wanted it that I took out the center torx screw that things went south.After putting screw back in I had no clicks & the gun was not hitting anywhere near where it was before I did all of this.Anyway the gun is a 6ppc 262 neck,shilen barrel 27 in long in a edge stock & its no where near the 13.5 weight limit & that brings up my next ?how do you guys shoot free recoil.I started using bag wax later in the day,& that 45x slapped right between eyes,not once but twice.That bag wax is some really slick stuff,I don't think bag wax & free recoil go togather. Larry
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Stonewall
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The only time that I have got hit with a scope was shooting free recoil with a 6 PPC LV in a match. I had four rounds in a tight group at 200 and was waiting for my condition to return.I ran out of time and in the last ten seconds left I fired that shot- now a 1.875" 5 shot group. I had changed my position slightly and the scope drew blood when it hit me . Victor looked over and said "You are bleeding " and I said "That last shot didn't go in the group...."
Glenn
Glenn
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tenring
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Larry - I understand exactly what you are saying. When my 40 LCS was new, I made the same mistake. After re-installing the torx and wavy spring, the knob turned freely with no detents. Try as I might, I could not get the detents to come back. I sent it to Leupold. They got it straightened out, and returned it with an instruction sheet. Now, I just turn the torx screw slightly, maybe 20 degrees, rotate the dial to my zero, and re-tighten the torx screw. I never take the torx screw up very far any more.
The other suggtestions for centering the reticule are correct.
The other suggtestions for centering the reticule are correct.
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emonthedemon
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thanks for the info,I'll box this baby up on thurs, when off work & send it to them.Now I've got to get me one of them tuners & learn how to use it & also learn how to keep the scope out of my face. Larry
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BJS6
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I did something similar with my 40X LCS. I should have been warned when I saw how tight the dang things were !!
Basically the turret is held by the clamping force of the torx screw only and in trying to retighten it when the turret has been turned you will only turn the dial below as well and what you thought was "0" is now miles off.
What is happening is the dial below has moved and you didn't see it, that is why your sight is all to blazes. You have no clicks because you didn't get anough tightening force to clamp the turret up solid, it is just turning free without actually rotating anything in the scope.
I don't blieve they intend them to be adjusted which seems kind of odd.
I'd do what you suggested, send it to Leupold, get them to set it up with the turrets reading "0" when the scope is mechanically centred and then don't touch that torx screw again !!
Basically the turret is held by the clamping force of the torx screw only and in trying to retighten it when the turret has been turned you will only turn the dial below as well and what you thought was "0" is now miles off.
What is happening is the dial below has moved and you didn't see it, that is why your sight is all to blazes. You have no clicks because you didn't get anough tightening force to clamp the turret up solid, it is just turning free without actually rotating anything in the scope.
I don't blieve they intend them to be adjusted which seems kind of odd.
I'd do what you suggested, send it to Leupold, get them to set it up with the turrets reading "0" when the scope is mechanically centred and then don't touch that torx screw again !!
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abintx
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Dave:
Thanks for your comments. The ten to fifteen minutes method you described is quite adequate for most needs. Good Shooting!
Thanks for your comments. The ten to fifteen minutes method you described is quite adequate for most needs. Good Shooting!