welcome back tactical rifleman this week we're going to talk about how to zero
the aim point on your on your rifle alright now step one decide hey do you
want it fifty 25 meters zero doesn't matter pros and cons of each a matter of
fact if you want to hear our opinions we've got another video on tactical
rifleman on just that the 25 versus 50 meters zero so let's say we're going to
do a 50 meter zero we're here set up on the line Keith's got his site already
mounted on the gun now on that I want to know make sure your aim point is
properly mounted okay it actually sits inside of a ring and we've seen them
backwards on the guns that's kind of obvious but one thing a lot of guys
don't catch and I don't know if you can catch this on the camera but this scope
is candid a couple degrees in the mouth alright this was taken off of a
student's gun and it is actually candid a couple of degrees it's red dot sight
that's really matter yeah it matters when you're making corrections to the
sight because instead of it moving straight up or straight left it's going
to move up at an angle pain-in-the-ass to zero so make sure you zero your sight
correct next thing you want to do is you want to dim that dot on that target so
that you can just barely see it it's going to give you a finer point and go
ahead dim your dot Keith so you just barely see it right now he's ready to
shoot that first set of bullets but if let's say you just zeroed your iron
sights alright if you just zeroed your iron sights there's a technique called
Co witnessing what you can do is actually look through your iron sights
line them up on the target and then you can actually dial your red dot to those
iron sights that's going to get you on the paper it is it your zero will be
very very close doing that like keith has already done that we're all set up
so I'm going to have him fire that first that first shot group before he
does that I want to point out he has a very stable firing position
some people prefer to fire with that hand up on the front of the gun go ahead
show it Keith all right that's fine make sure you've got those good points of
contact hands up underneath but his elbows are still set on the ground we
personally we prefer what's called a sniper hold where he'll run that support
hand back on to that bicep he still has good point of contact up here on the
rest which can be a sandbag or in this case a good solid rubber block but it'll
he still has good support both elbows on the ground and with that hand back on
the bicep he can raise and lower that hand keeps it set properly in the
shoulder and it will keep it keep it allow him to make real fine adjustments
for raising lowering that sight picture all right so once you've got a good
stable position we're going to have Keith go ahead and fire a three to five
round group all right now we're going to go downrange and we're going to check
that target out all right so come down we're gonna look at Keith's target I'm
pretty good shot group not bad I always like to circle my bullet holes that way
when we start shooting more I can tell which ones already been shot and then I
close the group and I number it all right now on this particular thing we
remember we're using red dot sights that have a half MOA adjustment you can use
your regular m16 zero target you can use a piece of paper with just a couple of
pasties on it but this is a particular target this one's they have them for 50
and 25 yard zeros this one's made by armored dynamics you can get them at
armoreddynamics.com you can also go to ARrifle.com
a bunch of different websites
you can download printable targets when you do it make sure you download ones
that print to scale that are actually designed for a proper printer paper
cheap no need to buy nothing fancy but the cool part about using this one is it
actually has the correct numbers down the side for our half MOA adjustment
sights so right we see a shot group we're going to move this point of impact
left 10 roughly and then we're going to move it up that roughly up roughly 10
again so we're going to go up ten and we're going to go left ten all right we
got it we know what a correction needs to be now we're going to go back and go
dial them into the sights all right so we've gone downrange we check the target
we know what adjustments we need to make adjustments on the aim point easy pull
your caps off windage knob
I'm sorry elevation knob windage knob on the side now they've got big screw flat
screwdriver heads on them you can use they say you can use the casing from
from a bullet a lot easier if you use a regular screwdriver you know or
just bring a dedicated screwdriver make the adjustments now the adjustments for
aim point per the manual is three millimeters for 25 meters zero per click
and six millimeters for 50 meters zero per click genset basically works out to
an eighth of an inch at 25 meters and a quarter of an inch at 50 meters you're
looking at a half a half MOA basically what you're looking at so I've got the
corrections I need to make on his they've got nice pretty arrows on them
turn it in the appropriate direction I'm sorry Keith
all right now all we're going to do is we are going to repeat those same steps
you can fire three shot group will go down checkmark the target again and
we'll repeat that process till we have them zero alright so we just made the
adjustments to Keith's rifle we had them send a next shot group if
you take your time you do correct adjustments you're going to have a gun
that's correctly zeroed doesn't take a lot of rounds people I
great shooting by Keith this weapon zeroed you can kind of tell the guy's
been to a couple of sniper schools and you can tell he was a sniper as a green
beret for quite a few years good shooting
but uh how about if you don't know exactly what the adjustments are on that
site all right you might have an off-brand
red dot sight let's talk about that next all right so let's say you've got an
off-brand red dot sight you're not sure what the adjustments are you know
they're not written on the dials let's say it don't freak out and go digging
all over the internet trying to find and download some manual just you're going
to run it the same way just after you shoot that first shot group you know you
need to move it away just this time make bold corrections instead of going a
little bit at a time what we did was we went ten clicks right ten clicks down
clink ten clicks left and alright we went too far but at least now we have a
set unit of measure okay I own if that's ten clicks cut it in half again all
right but so that's ten clicks down ten clicks over all I'm going to do again is
cut it in half and y'all probably over here but you see the method of the
madness if you don't know what your correct what the individual correction
notches are clicks per whatever it doesn't matter if you run it the same
way no matter what brand these red dot sights are alright so we've made our
adjustments we had them confirm it he's right in the center of the target we got
exactly where we want him to be now we gotta remember this is 50 meters zero what we're
shooting this is to represent that 200 meter zero downrange so we now need to
go out to that 200 meter range and confirm this if we get out there we
start banging left to right and we make fine adjustments and now we'll be fine
this guy's is basically how you set up and zero in Point scope if you got any
questions or comments be sure to leave them below thanks for watching