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put a scope on my 45-70. i've bore sited plenty of bolt actions but never a lever, how do i go about it?

Laser attached to barrel

Collimater or one of those in the bore lasers. Otherwise just start at 25 yds and track it.

figured i'd have to buy one, was hoping there might be a easy to do it without the laser. do the multi caliber lasers work well or should i buy specific to the caliber?

I'd start at 25 yards and take the time to get it right on the x at that distance. Should put you a tad high at 100 and ready to go hunting.

Roger you can get by with any cheap laser pointer taped to the barrel
Site at 25 yds and you will be close enough and on paper

I'd just set it in bags, squeeze one off at 25 or so, dial the scopes xhairs until they are on the bullet hole and go from there.

If it is a Marlin, Roger, do not, repeat, do not take a flathead screwdriver to the lever pivot screw and remove said.

Do not pull out the lever and sliding block dohickey, and then do not pull out the slide -

because you will most likely lose the ejector.

Ask me how I know...

It really is to much of a pain.

I second what Caribojack said.

Try one shot at 25 first to see if it is pointed at the moon or something. If its not too far off and within the scopes limits (without mount adjustment) you can track the scope down to the bullet strike then fire again. I can usually get close enough with this method within three shots to start shooting at 100 yards I know nearly nothing about the lasers but would probably trust them over some of the cheaper collimators.

A small mirror that will let you look down the bore with the action open will work.

Take the bolt out and bore sight it.




Travis

Do this. Just shoot it at 25 yds, multiply the correction by 4 and adjust the scope. You should be on paper at 100 yds.

I never understood why people get so worked up over bore sighting a rifle, you can accomplish the same thing with one shot.

I've never needed any gadgets to get that job done. Just starting close enough you can see where it's hitting and working from there has always worked for me.

This. Sometimes I believe folks have a tendency to overthink things.

Open the action,
Remove the screw that is the lever pivot, remove the lever out the bottom and the bolt out the rear,roll the rifle to the right and the ejector will fall out.
The first time you do it you can lay the rifle on a bath towel so you don't drop/lose the ejector.

The ejector lays in a groove inside the left side of the receiver, put it in place and the bolt captures it.

How are you liking your 45-70??

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The Easy Button can be difficult for some folks.

just going to shoot at 25 tomorrow and go from there.

If you will center the internal scope adjustment both vertically and horizontally, you will be on a piece of typing paper at 25 yards, I promise.

I have done many Marlin disassembles with no problem. Still, a laser, collimeter, or 25 yard initial is the way to go. On the latter I would use 3 shot groups and center point of said group, then repeat at 100 for fine tune.

thanks for the video, pulled the bolt and used my neighbors door knob which is just under a 100 yds away. i bore sight all my guns on his door knob and their usually only off by a couple inches at a hundred. that was pretty simple.

i like it but haven't shot it much. the skinner peep on it was shooting 18" high at a hundred and i had it bottomed out.