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Score Tip:  Setting Your Zero 

There are as many ways to zero your rifle’s scope as there are for excuses of why you need another rifle.  Working at a gunshop I have heard hundreds of ways and secret formulas for a quick zero.

Here’s one for you that’s easy and simple.  Take a friend with you to the range.  Set your target up at 25 yards and fire one shot.  Open and make sure your rifle is EMPTY.  Now while you continue to look through your scope, put the cross hairs on the bullet hole.  Hold your rifle steady as possible and have your friend turn the elevation knob until the cross hairs cut the bullseye in half.  Now have your friend do the same with the windage knob.  If you have been able to hold the rifle steady the cross hairs should be dead center on the bullseye and with your next shot.  Make sure the rifle and range is safe and move your target out to 100 yards and repeat the process.  If done properly you can zero almost any rifle in four shots.

Gary McCraw
AZOD Shooting Editor
Shooting@azod.com