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So I am working an on 80 year old Savage 45 for a friend who says it can't hit paper at 100 yds. I found the bell of the scope was touching the folded front site. The height adjustments appear to have been backed all the way out. I turned them until I began to feel clicks again. What I don't know is where I am at on the total adjustment scale. Is there anyway to know when you are back at , lets call it, factory zero , on adjustments or is it just going to be shoot and click until I get it near?

You know can use a mirror to center the reticle? Place a mirror flush against the objective lens. Looking through the ocular you'll see two reticles. Simply adjust the scope until you see only one and your centered.

Thanks- I will give it a try. Should put me at a good starting point.

I figured out I wanted the reticle centered in the scope tube, and rotated the scope when only in the two bottom halves of the rings. Then I adjusted until the crosshairs stayed on the same target.

Then after years I found out other people did it too, and with a mirror. The mirror works better with most scopes. To do it on a rifle, you need a mirror with a thinner border than the barrel to scope objective clearance.

The nicest way to zero scope adjustment range on the rifle is with a Leupold zero point magnetically attached to the muzzle.

Damn Clark. Forgot I even had one of those. Doi ! I haven't used it in forever. It seems zero on that thing is always actually not exactly centered but a little low and to the left on the centered ring. I will give it a try as a starting place. Thanks for the good stuff gents.

that's a pretty nifty recommendation Earl!

That is the kind of stuff that one use to be able to come to the campfire and get...

Thanks!

Your welcome. But I definitely can't take credit for developing the procedure. And I don't know who to give the credit to. It's been stuck to the side of my gun safe for too long to remember.

Was going to try that mirror method but I found my Leupy magnetic which showed crosshairs low and way to the right. I centered to a point other scopes I have seem to agree on, then asked the owner if he had been shooting high and left and he said definitely. Hopefully I am close.

I finished the refinish- except for a wax job, and have it all back together and seeming to function. 70 year old rifle, not even Savage has a manual for it, so I am just happy I have no spare parts left over! :-o