I sent my .243 out to get trigger work done and I had to remove the scope. I got it back, everything works great with the trigger. My dad and I remount the scope last Friday and I took it out and tried to sight it in. So I'm sighting it in and everything is going well, the scope is tracking well and I keep getting closer to the dot. Then I run out of elevation adjustment on the scope. So I think that it's a leupold that he had for 30 years, it mustn't have much adjustment in it. He has a few new ones laying around, so I just decided to try one of those for a quick fix, because I want to get a new scope for it soon.
Today I mounted the new scope. I take it out to the range, tracking perfect, hits the bulls eye at 30 yards. I move the target out 10 yards and it's 1.5 inches high. Move it out ~10 more yards and its 2.5 inches high. I'm thinking this is crazy. I put it out to 100 yards and it's 8 inches high. I don't believe it and shoot again and the second hole is .75" away from the first.
What do I have setup wrong? I'm 99% sure it's not my hand loads. The scope is tracking right and I shot that .75" group at 100 yards, so everything must be tight. I'm not dialing anything with adjustable turrets, so it doesn't matter if it's not perfectly level - right??
Everything is exactly the same as it was before I took it apart - same rings, same bases, I did not remove the bases. The only thing that could have changed would be if I swapped the front and rear top half of the ring when I remounted it, but that shouldn't make a difference anyway??
I'm sure somebody can help me figure out what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.
Today I mounted the new scope. I take it out to the range, tracking perfect, hits the bulls eye at 30 yards. I move the target out 10 yards and it's 1.5 inches high. Move it out ~10 more yards and its 2.5 inches high. I'm thinking this is crazy. I put it out to 100 yards and it's 8 inches high. I don't believe it and shoot again and the second hole is .75" away from the first.
What do I have setup wrong? I'm 99% sure it's not my hand loads. The scope is tracking right and I shot that .75" group at 100 yards, so everything must be tight. I'm not dialing anything with adjustable turrets, so it doesn't matter if it's not perfectly level - right??
Everything is exactly the same as it was before I took it apart - same rings, same bases, I did not remove the bases. The only thing that could have changed would be if I swapped the front and rear top half of the ring when I remounted it, but that shouldn't make a difference anyway??
I'm sure somebody can help me figure out what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.