How Do You Boresight A Rifle Scope?
“O.k., we’re going to talk a little bit about boresighting a rifle scope on a rifle. And what you’re actually doing is assuring yourself that the cross hares on that scope are aligned with where the center line of the bore is pointing. There’s several different ways to do that. Back in the old days you used to be able to put the gun in some type of a rest, a very solid device, remove the bolt from the firearm and take a good look down the bore at something some distance away. Once you have that rifle locked in to place and aimed directly through the center line of the bore at something, you look through the scope and adjusted the scope to where the cross hares were on the same place. Then you shot it in after the end. We’ve come a bit since then. So now we have a couple different types of devices called a bore scope. This is a optical device that has a grid in it right direct in the dead center and on it is attached what they call a spud, different sizes for different calibers. That sp
