Olevern
07-29-2012, 04:00 PM
Had a couple of boys over to shoot in my backyard range today after early church; we shot for about three hours then the one who came with his dad left and I took the other one back home.
When I got back home I had the bench and bags set up so thought I might mount up a scope on a recently acquired Thompson Center Contender barrel (10" oct. in .22 LR).
Had some difficulty with the "star" type screws that came with the rings (don't know what this type of screw is called, but it is not a phillips or slotted). Apparently either the allen type wrench they sent with the rings or the screws themselves was out of spec because I couldn't tighten without them slipping.
Anyway, snugged the screws up as well as I could and thought "Oh, well, it's just a .22, not like recoil will loosen them up".
Took the gun out and fired a sighter from about 20 feet; not on target. Went in closer and saw where the shot hit, but decided that the amount of adjustment right to left was so much that I needed to use the adjustment in the mount base. So....recentered the scope windage adjustment and used the mount base screws to adjust windage, then made final adjustments with the scope adjustments, moved back to 50 feet, however, shots weren't following the adjustments. Revisited the ring screws and found the scope could be moved in the rings with little pressure from my hands. Great.
So, back to the gun room to ferret out some different screws, remount the scope in the rings and start all over again.
My shooting bench was rocking a bit so I compensated by putting pressure on one elbow while trying to keep the crosshairs alligned and squeeze the trigger. My first group with CCI Blazers had two called "pulls", so took the time to shim the rocking leg of the bench so that it would not be a distraction/hinderance.
Then I took her back to the bench and shot two more groups; one with Winchester subsonic and the second with CCI Blazers; finally some success.
By then I was hot and tired so adjorned till another day.
http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac56/Olevern/contender2250feetJuly12.jpg
Frustrating at times, but ain't it fun?
When I got back home I had the bench and bags set up so thought I might mount up a scope on a recently acquired Thompson Center Contender barrel (10" oct. in .22 LR).
Had some difficulty with the "star" type screws that came with the rings (don't know what this type of screw is called, but it is not a phillips or slotted). Apparently either the allen type wrench they sent with the rings or the screws themselves was out of spec because I couldn't tighten without them slipping.
Anyway, snugged the screws up as well as I could and thought "Oh, well, it's just a .22, not like recoil will loosen them up".
Took the gun out and fired a sighter from about 20 feet; not on target. Went in closer and saw where the shot hit, but decided that the amount of adjustment right to left was so much that I needed to use the adjustment in the mount base. So....recentered the scope windage adjustment and used the mount base screws to adjust windage, then made final adjustments with the scope adjustments, moved back to 50 feet, however, shots weren't following the adjustments. Revisited the ring screws and found the scope could be moved in the rings with little pressure from my hands. Great.
So, back to the gun room to ferret out some different screws, remount the scope in the rings and start all over again.
My shooting bench was rocking a bit so I compensated by putting pressure on one elbow while trying to keep the crosshairs alligned and squeeze the trigger. My first group with CCI Blazers had two called "pulls", so took the time to shim the rocking leg of the bench so that it would not be a distraction/hinderance.
Then I took her back to the bench and shot two more groups; one with Winchester subsonic and the second with CCI Blazers; finally some success.
By then I was hot and tired so adjorned till another day.
http://i885.photobucket.com/albums/ac56/Olevern/contender2250feetJuly12.jpg
Frustrating at times, but ain't it fun?