Quote Originally Posted by Eville View Post
Well, got it zeroed to 100m yesterday. I only hit my eyepro once, and just a little bit with the magnification set to 14x. It took me a full 20 rounds and a very sore shoulder, but it's dead on now.

Quote Originally Posted by Mangyrat View Post
Lucky you i fired over 40 rounds in the 300 win mag back when i was swamping scopes out just to get it on paper at 100 yards "i had a scope ring not tight".
I was lucky a friend was with me and we were taking turns getting the crap beat out of us.

I bought a Caldwell Lead Sled some years back for sighting in rifles. Even a .308 or 30-06 will beat up your should if you put enough rounds through it. The sled takes most of the recoil away and provides a very steady rest. Once I'm zeroed, then I shoot off my bipod or freehand. My hunting partner has an older bore sighter (Bushnell if I'm remembering correctly) and I find it saves ammo if I use it. It won't give me a zero dead on, but will put that first round on the paper and usually within 8" of center. Typically I'm using less than 10 rounds to get my zero set.

I put the replacement scope on my backup Savage 99 this spring without the bore sight and the first round was nearly off the paper at 25 yards so it took closer to 20 to zero. I think I put about 8 rounds through it at 25 to get it where I wanted it then checked at 100 yards to be sure.

Oh, I had put some flip up lens covers on my Swarovski and ended up removing the eye piece cover because every time I fired it, the cover slapped me over my eye. It got annoying.