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It's amazing how many people don't know how to do this. It's harder to do with some guns, and impossible with others, but with a bolt action or AR, it's really simple.This is where the 'poor man's bore sight' procedure comes in handy.
Last time I did it before live fire sighting in my Mauser .243 put its first shot 1" below the bullseye at a 100 yards.
I watched a guy chasing zero with a pistol for half an hour a few years ago. 5 yards out, take one shot, adjust the sight, take another shot, adjust it back, no two shots within 4" of each other... So hard not to tell him that he was just a bad shot. I eventually suggested that he brace the pistol on the bench and get a good group of three in the same spot, but he was happy with his own method. I hope he doesn't hunt.I watched a guy "sight in" his new AR at the range once, a few years ago. I resisted the urge to butt in and help him, but he wasn't asking for help and seemed to be enjoying himself, so I didn't.
He'd shoot 20 or 30 rounds, check his shotgun-pattern group at 25 yards, tinker with his scope and rip off another magazine full or so.
I wanted to show him how to get it in the bullseye within three shots, but I minded my own business. He was clearly having fun, had a huge grin on his face as he packed up to leave. I asked if he reloaded, and generously offered to clean up the empties when he said no.
I picked up over 400 pieces of nice, once-fired LC 5.56 brass after he left.
Man. That sounds like something I would have done 10 years ago.I have seen a guy sighting in his rifle had the scope rotated 90 degrees! Elevation knob makes it go
right and left. Windage knob bullet goes up and down. Priceless
Sounds like you were watching my cousin. He did the same thing every time we went shooting.I watched a guy chasing zero with a pistol for half an hour a few years ago. 5 yards out, take one shot, adjust the sight, take another shot, adjust it back, no two shots within 4" of each other... So hard not to tell him that he was just a bad shot. I eventually suggested that he brace the pistol on the bench and get a good group of three in the same spot, but he was happy with his own method. I hope he doesn't hunt.
All my rifles are setup that way....I have seen a guy sighting in his rifle had the scope rotated 90 degrees! Elevation knob makes it go
right and left. Windage knob bullet goes up and down. Priceless
Some years back there was a guy at the range shooting a series of reloads through his pistol (don't remember what kind). I talked to him a little and he said he was doing a "ladder test". He had them neatly labeled and separated in groups. He'd shoot a few, look at his group and note it in his notebook, then shoot another group.I watched a guy chasing zero with a pistol for half an hour a few years ago. 5 yards out, take one shot, adjust the sight, take another shot, adjust it back, no two shots within 4" of each other... So hard not to tell him that he was just a bad shot. I eventually suggested that he brace the pistol on the bench and get a good group of three in the same spot, but he was happy with his own method. I hope he doesn't hunt.
Well at least the Elk were safe.Place I used to work had a huge sand pile we used for a backstop to shoot. One day the boss is there with several of his friends "sighting-in" their muzzle-loaders for Elk season. Most of them just fired several shots until they hit the target and considered the gun "sighted in".
I like this type of person that you described.I know a guy who feels the need to sight in his rifle once a week, every week leading up to hunting season. Goes through 60 or so rounds every time then complains he can't find ammo. Will no kidding, you keep shooting it all.