welcome to tactical riflemen we're gonna do a quick video now on how to zero
the iron sights on your rifle now this works with these a two carrying handles
it'll work with backup iron sights it'll work with sights on aks but primarily
we're gonna focus on the iron sights that come on most of your standard AR
rifles now step one decide hey are you gonna do a 25 meter target the standard
military way that then gives you a zero for 300 meters or you're going to use a
50 meter target which a lot of units prefer what we try to push which will
give you a roughly a 200 meters zero I decide one of the other the pros or cons
of both but whichever one you decide on using make sure that you're using these
appropriate zero target for that so number one just make sure you're using
the the law this small sight aperture on the rear side of that rifle you want the
small one alright next you want to make sure that you've lowered that rear sight
all the way down as far as it'll go all right now if you're doing a 300 meter
zero and you've got one of the older ARS let's say at a1 or a2 you want to come
up just one click past the 300 mark on the rear sight that's because that's a
one-minute angle up now if you have a newer rifle with the removable carrying
handle with the two knobs on the side that means you've got an 83 maybe a four
rifle that is a finer thread those 1/2 minute of angle clicks and you're going
to come up two clicks there's also a Z right there you'll see the Z on it
alright next you want to do your behind the rifle you want to make sure you've
got a good stable firing position now you're set up you want to you don't want
that gun jumping around at all make sure you support it on something good and
solid sandbags work great we've got a rubber block here and as far as holding
the gun you notice Keith there has his hand up underneath the forearm that's
how a lot of people zero we personally we kind of prefer what we call a sniper
hold on the gun go a head and rotate out Keith there you go
what this does is the gun is still supported up front but it's allowing him
to have more stable movement and adjustments on the rear of the gun by
raising lowering this support hand there once that's good
you're going to make sure guns loaded guns hot he's stable he's got a good
natural point aim so when he closes his eyes opens his eyes up he's looking
clear through those sights looking through the rear sight in the front
sight directly under the target now he can't be muscling it over natural point
of aim it's relaxed bodies where it needs to be also the most important
thing everybody misses its good sight alignment this front sight needs to be
directly in the middle of that rear sight aperture and the aka it's the same
as a pistol you would want front sight right in the middle of that blade on the
rear sight it's imperative that those sights are lined up as perfect as
possible otherwise every time you move your head around on the stock you'll be
out you'll be getting a different sight picture and you're gonna have big groups
downrange all right so he has good sight alignment the next step we're gonna fire
that nice three to five round shot group good fire three for me Keith guns back
on safe all right now you notice he wasn't jerking that trigger good smooth
trigger pull where's that let's go down and take a look at the target alright so
we've come down we're gonna take a look at Keith's target shot groups not bad
for 25 meters zero you're looking for a shot group by the goal should be that
about the size of a dime now 50 meters zero on the on the target you're looking
for a shot group about the size of a quarter so that's not about it's
actually real good shot group all right so Keith's got two bullets I
like to circle them just so when we come back if there are other holes I know
which ones he shot the first time and then I mark where the center of the shot
group is and I number it right this shot group number one he's off to left of the
target now these zeroing targets alright he is 9 to 12 he's in the middle of it
we're gonna have him go left 10 ten clicks and then because it's three
clicks for that windage knob on that rear sight and then for elevation we're
gonna actually adjust the front sight not the rear sight and he needs to move
the point of impact up one block and they're numbered on the side of the
targets here they really are so we're gonna move him up one that's our first
adjustment all right we'll go close we now have the adjustments we need to make
I actually write them down helps me stick them in my head we're gonna go
back we're gonna go make those adjustments on the gun all right so
we've looked at our target we know what our adjustments need to be now we've
come back up range and we've got to make those adjustments now we've got to raise
and lower that's strike of the bullet from what we where we hit on the target
we don't do that with the elevation knob on the rear sight that stays where it's
at all adjustments for moving the strike of the bullet on that target are done
with the front sight now there's a dozen different types of AR site tools out
there this particular one is made by Troy defense it works okay and would you
it was designed so you can just use the tip of a bullet set that bullet in there
we know we need to move him so many clicks turn it clockwise and that's
going to raise the strike of the bullet up one block on those AR targets
clockwise what it's doing is it's just threaded it what you're doing is you're
lowering the front sight into into the front sight well here and what that does
is then when you bring it back up on target it's going to raise the gun if
you need the lower point of impact you go counterclockwise gents it's easy one
click it's going to move it one block on those targets all right so that gets us
our elevation adjustment to make our windage adjustment all we're going to do
is it's three clicks on this knob per block on that target all right so we'll
go as many clicks as necessary
all right he should be set now piece of cake
now repeat we're going to shoot our next three round group will go down and take
a look at it again all right let's go check it out all right so we made our
corrections to the rifle we had Keith send another shot group come back down
and if you make your Corrections correctly you should be right in the
middle of the target you might have to make fine correction shoot an extra shot
group but you can see a shot group that big you can kind of tell Keith's been to
a couple of sniper schools and was behind a sniper rifle quite a while in
Special Forces but anyways good shot group we're going
to call this weapon zeroed I said we're going to just keep repeating this
process until we've moved that shot group onto the center of the target
where you want it to hit each time you shoots three rounds you go down circle
them so that you know those have already been shot make your measurements for
your Corrections come back up make the adjustment and keep doing that until
you've got that shot group right in the center of the target you'll keep
repeating that process then you're set so remember once you've confirmed zero
here and you're set you then got to go out and confirm it at distance all right
so go out to the range take this 50 meters zero go out and set out that 200
meter target and bang away and confirm that zero make sure you're dead-on and
then you'll be all set gents that's how you zero iron sights if
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