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Take some pain out of sighting in a new scope
In my younger days, I made the mistake of thinking a scope was a scope, and there wasn’t any reason to spend more than a couple hundred bucks on one. I’d get a new rifle […]
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Save some time and ammo with one-shot sighting
One of my young friends did his 4-H presentation on how to sight in a scoped rifle the other night. He did a good job explaining how the windage and elevation adjustments on his scope […]
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Save ammo when you sight in your rifle
In my younger days, I made the mistake of thinking a scope was a scope, and there wasn’t any reason to spend more than a couple hundred bucks on one. I’d get a new rifle […]
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The one-shot sighting method
One of my young friends did his 4-H presentation on how to sight in a scoped rifle the other night. He did a good job explaining how the windage and elevation adjustments on his scope […]
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Don’t skip sighting in your rifle
I don’t know what causes scopes to get out of alignment, but even the best ones do it. Whether it’s springs or something inside the scope that slowly lose their strength, or bumps and jostles […]
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I need the wind to quit for an hour or so
I got a new Weatherby rifle with my life membership in the Muley Fanatic Foundation. I topped that Wyoming-made rifle with a Wyoming-designed scope – a Maven RS.1. I’ve spent the last several months collecting […]
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New rifle’s sighted in — bring on elk season
I’ve shot a .270 for years. I have used it for everything from coyotes to elk, and I’ve had excellent results with it on every species. Well, I’ve never fired it at an elk, but […]
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I wish I’d bought a bore sight sooner
In my younger days, I made the mistake of thinking a scope was a scope, and there wasn’t any reason to spend more than a couple hundred bucks on one. I’d get a new rifle […]
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I love sighting in a new gun
I mentioned yesterday that I got a new gun for Thanksgiving. Not on Thanksgiving Day – even for me, that would seem a little crass. And certainly not on Black Friday. I don’t go anywhere […]
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Sight in with one shot and save some ammo
One of my young friends did his 4-H presentation on how to sight in a scoped rifle the other night. He did a good job explaining how the windage and elevation adjustments on his scope […]