Sighting in my air rifle scope

[SuzukiGS750EZ]

Hey guys. I'm no newbie to air rifles or sighting in the scopes, but i've never quite understood about after i sight them in. If i sight in my scope at 20 yards, if i move out to 40, will the POI be the same? In my head it says no, but how do you sight in close and in the field or hunting keep the POI accurate enough to shoot? I have a tasco 2-7 with parallax adjustment mounted on an RWS model 48 springer which i love. Just bought some crappy crosman destroyer ex pellets which fit my gun loosely but i'll have to make do with them. I've sighted it in at 20 yards, is that where i'm stuck? I usually don't shoot much farther than 20 yds so i've never really had the problem of missing at longer yardages. Makes me appreciate how effecient i've become with my bow and a peep/sighting system. I just use the old style pins with a peep and set them at 15, 25, 35 and 45 and can guess inbetween. Scope is nice on the air rifle, but a pain in the butt too since it's so accurate.

 

[Unk]

Shoot at different ranges than your Zero..write down the Up or Down at those various measured distances and tape that note to your rifle...then you can hold over or under as required. I'd probably not spin scope knobs on short range shots but that's just me.

Estimating distance in the field without a range finder is an acquired skill worth working on, IMHO.

 

[intheshaw]

Im not sure what the ballistics are on a pellet gun. The pellet will have drop of as all projectiles do. Your Point of aim/point of impact is determined by distance, and wind. Like said before, shoot groupings at varios distances, I would say about 5m intervals to determine drop of for your pellet gun. From there you can use your base line zero of 20m to determine if you need to aim higher or lower depending on the distance. Most factory rifle cartridges already have that data availble. Some of the nicer optics out there already have extra distance and windage lines but a cheap scope wont. Just play around with it till you know what the different distances do to the pellet

 

[DennisStrickland]

the new range finders are inexpensive & light weight. do'nt know about pellet shooters but many bow hunters have starting using them. a difference of 60 ft. to 120 ft .should make an adjustment necessary. i sight my walther to 9o feet . at 90 ft. with decent pellets you should be able to group at least 1/4 in. most good shooters can get 1/10 in. at that range. shooting from bags or rest.
dennis

 

[JUST1MOR]

Im not sure what the ballistics are on a pellet gun. The pellet will have drop of as all projectiles do. Your Point of aim/point of impact is determined by distance, and wind. Like said before, shoot groupings at varios distances, I would say about 5m intervals to determine drop of for your pellet gun. From there you can use your base line zero of 20m to determine if you need to aim higher or lower depending on the distance. Most factory rifle cartridges already have that data availble. Some of the nicer optics out there already have extra distance and windage lines but a cheap scope wont. Just play around with it till you know what the different distances do to the pellet

Good advice intheshaw. Our backyard on our property allowed me to set out 15"x15" targets @ 10 yd. intervals. I found a scope that had the horizonal lines on the bottom of the vertical crosshair. I set the center crosshair/dot @ 15 yds., then the next one @ 20 yds., then each 10 yd. increment I used the striations as a crosshair. I found mine was good out to about 45-50 yds., after that the wind was just too much of a factor to try & "guesstimate" holdover. Enjoy your rifle.
Be safe.

 

[SuzukiGS750EZ]

Shoot at different ranges than your Zero..write down the Up or Down at those various measured distances and tape that note to your rifle...then you can hold over or under as required. I'd probably not spin scope knobs on short range shots but that's just me.

Estimating distance in the field without a range finder is an acquired skill worth working on, IMHO.

I acquired this skill through 13 years of archery . I measure everything in yards haha, even if i'm telling someone about how far off shore a fish is.

 

[SuzukiGS750EZ]

the new range finders are inexpensive & light weight. do'nt know about pellet shooters but many bow hunters have starting using them. a difference of 60 ft. to 120 ft .should make an adjustment necessary. i sight my walther to 9o feet . at 90 ft. with decent pellets you should be able to group at least 1/4 in. most good shooters can get 1/10 in. at that range. shooting from bags or rest.
dennis

At 20 yds i can hit asprin every time. My groupings are a little larger than a hole punch hole. Sometimes oddly shaped, but always touching.

(shots on right at + sign were sighting in for new pellets)

This is probably the largest group i've had besides when trying to 0 my scope (6 pellets)

 

[dipbait]

If you can shoot aspirins at twenty yards then i would go back to that pellet. Nice shooting.

 

[SuzukiGS750EZ]

If you can shoot aspirins at twenty yards then i would go back to that pellet. Nice shooting.

They were RWS Superdomes. The most uniform pellets i've shot, but i've only had a few bucks extra the last few weeks so i settled with crappy instead of none. I'm conforming lol. Thanks for the compliments. I shoot traditional no glove, no sight release and sights w. release. I like archery better than air rifle but air rifles have their spot.

 

[hung-solo]

If you can shoot aspirins at twenty yards then i would go back to that pellet. Nice shooting.

no doubt, 20yds and spot on with a bb gun? yeah thats where it is at. i would use that as my zero and practice from 5yds - 30yds.