How To Zero An Air Rifle Scope | Air Armoury 

Thankyou so much for Posting This Video... Im not New to Airguns but Im New to Scopes and Im just getting into them. That being said, Ill tell you man. Sometimes... Well ALOT of the time I feel lost and confused. Like "Scope Talk" is another Language or something. This Video helpped me to have a better understanding of things and tho Ive still got to put in the time and effort to feel more at ease and comfortable. Atleast now I have a better understand of things than before i watched your Video so I feel like Im off to a much better start now. So again another BIG THANKYOU From a Loyal Subscriber from across the pond... PLEASE Try to Keep making Videos for us now and in the future as well as keep your Channel Active. You make great Vids. and give us good and reliable Info... Youll have my Support for certain. Well have a Great Day man and Safe Shooting... "Arms in the Air!" ~DrJones~ [04/17/18]

Lmao.. I’ve never seen a video that actually makes sighting in a gun scope complicated . The best easiest and cheapest way to sight your gun in is sight in using a bench rest that locks gun in place shoot 3 shots , look through scope and dial scope to where the 3 shot group is .. BAM done !

I did my zeroing using the same distance..and my scope too has 1/4"@100 yds..after minor adjustments with elevation and windage...I had perfect shots. A big thank you to you. Cheers

There are so many videos about this topic but this video is by far the best I’ve seen! Really simple and clear explanation about the calculations. Not to much information, not to less, just perfect! Thank you this is really helpful for me

You make it so much easier to follow your instructions and explain things in a simple easy to follow method. You don't bombard anyone with irrelevant gibberish and technical jargon. Good for you !

I think you did a great job explaining it. I spent a few hours trying to figure it out and when I thought I was making progress, BAM it was right back to where I started. I retired my squint gauge and will be doing it like this video until someone can prove to me a better way.

Thanks for a great instructional video, very easy to watch and take on board. Brilliant stuff

Very helpful, thanks for taking the time to put this together. Of course without a clamp it relies on the shooter being able to get a steady group in the first place!

Pretty helpful video for me, as someone that has only really personally sighted in a scope properly twice in my 28 years of life. I've always had my Army friend who shoots all kinds of firearms do it for me... haha. The way he taught me is to basically have a fixed position or a clamp where the rifle will consistently be in the same exact position and just keep shooting and making small adjustments as I go until it consistently hits exactly where I'm trying to hit every time from the same mounted position, which makes perfect sense to me. But sometimes I can't exactly do that (either don't have a proper mount, or mess up the position mounting the rifle after pumping it again, and other little snafus).

Very, very good. Simple enough to get a novice started yet technical enough to teach an 'advanced' shooter. many thanks

What a wonderful vid. Really enjoy your vids. To the point and always informative. Thank you that man.

I was so lost without this video!! Thanks bro!!!!🙏🙏👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼🙌🙌🙌🙌🍻🍻🍻

Good job , that's how I zeroed my 7 mm Express Remington (.280) the first time . The flattest shooting gun that I've ever owned !

very clear, concise, and helpful!

Simple and easy ways..... Thank you. So meany times years ago I didn't know if you moved the pellet to the cross or as said you move the cross to the pellet. So simple and easy now......

Great video, thanks. I didn't even think to try to zero the scope as you did at 13:35. That makes things much easier.

Nice video, Clear and Simple guide, cheers.

Thanks great video. I'm a total beginner I followed your video as you said I'm shooting at 15 yards set the sights and bullseye 😊

I just got a new breakbarrel that shoots at 1300 FPS, and instructions to the scope got saturated with coffee - papier machet. Thank you for that lesson about zeroing a scope, i never used a scope in my life. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! 😀

Well explained, well done, thank you

perfect everything I needed to know about zeroing in a telescope for a rifle... perfect, thankyou..

thank you for making this video. I just put a new scope on my gamo whisper x and had it zeroed in quickly using the first method. saved in favorites for later refract. tyvm

Well done! Very helpful and easy to follow.

Great video and communication skills. Thank you.

I have a spring rifle so invested in a lazer bore sighter, stuck it in the end of the barrel aimed it at the bull on the target and adjusted the scope to suit, crosshairs and red dot both on the bull before even firing a shot. Very handy. thanks for the information though. Dave.

A good video. I had a BSA "Mercury" years ago and it was a fine piece of kit indeed.

I luv it...i injoyed the information on this here channel

Great review mate, very clear cheers

Thanks that was exactly what I was looking for.

I found this very helpful, cheers.

After two minutes of watching the video I decided to tell you how to zero a scope in a minute. Three shots to the center of the target. If I hit 10 feet to the right and 2 feet up keep the crosshairs to center of target and ask my son to move the windage and elevations knobs until the crosshairs is right where the 3 bullets did hit. Never fails. That is after making sure the scope is PROPERLY mounted on the rifle.

This is how we did it in competition. First, you have to zero the scope. Adjust the elevation and windage until the reticle center does not change on the target when rotated through a full 360 degrees on a stand. Then, shim the scope to be dead on at 25 yards. This makes it so that you move the scope internals as little as possible from dead center for all your shots. The pins that drive the scope up and down and side to side do not do their job linearly. Their is error in its traverse as you move the adjustments further from dead center. And dont hold over or under. Shoot for a group, no matter the bull location. Then, make your changes. And use a full gun rest for sighting in. I suggest starting with Crossman Premiere pellets for target work. US National Champion Texas State Champion Louisiana State Champion Florida State Champion Kentucky State Champion Mississippi State Champion California State Champion 15th in the Worlds

Thanks for the tips in zeroing the scope

Thank you! That explanation was nice and easy.

Good job! Much appreciated.

very clear explanation,thank you.

Thanks. Great presentation.

A very well explained handy blog,well done.

Thanks for a well explained and helpful video

Thank you, this is very helpful ❤️👍

Duuuude that was so helpful because I was gonna start beating my head against the wall trying to do it the other day, thank you very much 👍👍✌✌

Thank you so much for this video. I’m new to everything to do with the sport. Just got myself a Webley Raider and I really need the how to on everything. But it’s no good knowing everything and not being able to zero my scope. So I’m very grateful for the help. Also extremely grateful for the maths part! 😀

Like one of adjusting while looking at the cross of the scope...you have real assisted greatly

Great video, very helpful

great video

You lost me when I had to do math 😂

Dont mind the the simpletons in the comments for which basic fundemental concepts of ballistics are too complex or too difficult to grasp. This video contained the perfect combination of informational materal and visual representation of the methods described in theory, and helped immensely in configuring my rifle. Much oblidged for the spot on video.

Thanks mate The way you explain things is very helpful and easy to understand Nice one 👍

Very helpful.... thanks!

Thanks for the tutorial it was very helpful for a first time user

this video helped me so much, thank you!!!!!

Thank you. second way I try 1st . Great info and I hope more videos soon

very helpful and clearly explained

Very well explained. 👍

Very good info im new to air guns. I will give it a try

Very clear to follow many thanks .

I enjoyed that. Very informative thank you.

thanks for posting!!

thank you very clear and very easy to understand especially as i am very new to this

Very good you made it simple

Nice job! Recommending to my students to watch.

Thanks good explanation for spring rifle.

Really helpful. Appreciate the drawing.

well explained and presented cheers it will help no end

Very useful thank you!!!

Helped with understand Hatsan on other clip and scope siting on this one.Thanks bro! Subbed

Thanks Mate great airgunning scope advice.!!

very useful. Thanks

Great! thanks, helped me out lots!

good job explaining that. steve

Thank you , very very useful to a beginner like me!!

Thanks mate from New Zealand

Personally for my airsoft snipers I used a barrel laser to preset range and some math. Then fine tuned at the site. Same method can be used for air rifles over a greater distance.

Fabulous explanation....worked for my remington first time

I bought my first air rifle, Benjamin Vaporizer .22 in the dead of winter in NY. I grew up around firearms all my life and served in the military, so im very familiar with shooting and zeroing a scope. I took it out of the box, put the scope on it and the 12 year old in me just could not resist firing it, I knew i was not going to go out in the cold and Zero so I just squeezed off a few pellets from my back 2nd floor balcony, i knew i wasn't going to bulls-eye anything but i was kind of surprised that i couldn't even tell where the pellet hit, i think i missed the Maple tree completely... I've got my work cut out for me.

As Phil Swede mentionned it, but maybe without sufficient details so that everybody can understand (guess) the procedure, here it is in details: 1. You crank. 2 You put your pellet in the barrel. 3. You install a vice and put in your rifle. NO, dont fix it yet. Follow the simple instructions... A very good idea would be to put the vice in place so that you can pomp it again whitout having to take rifle out of the vice. You will see why later. But this is not absolutely necessary; just easier for later on. 4. While having your rifle the vice, but still able to move it, crouch or lean or whatever you need to do, and aim throught your scope so that you at least have your target in sight. If it is a completely new scope, you may shoot completely off the target if you put it too far. So begin at 20 feet or so max. Then, while still aiming, slowly and cautiously tighten the vice while moving the rifle to keep it toward the target. Now adjust the scope elevation knob to the closest because it is very unlikely that you will only shoot at 20 feet. You will want to shoot from further than that, and probably not closer than that; well, not with a scope on at least.... Its gonna save you some adjustments later on. 5. Once rifle cannot move at all and squeezed very tightly by the vice, you shoot. BE CAREFULL not too touch or move the rifle from now on. 6. Do the necessary ajustments with the clickers (the round thingy which clicks when you turn them...) so that the shot is square at the crosshair. Now in theory, your scope is perfect for a 20 feet shot; in theory because... 7. In the very, VERY unlikely case that your pellet was a defect one, do a second shoot. Its a good thing you have placed your vice so that you can recharge without moving too much right? You had a very good idea to do so... Its not that important if the rifle/vice moves BTW. If it does because you didn't fix the vice into place, just slack the rifle a little bit, carefully adjust the position of the rifle within the vice for the correct elevation. Secure tightly. For the side to side (windy) adjustment, turn the vice/rifle assembly to align the crosshair with the center of the target. 8. Shoot. Normally, the pellet should now be straight at the middle of the target if you did everything correctly. The key here is being meticulous, and cautious. 9. Now there is one last thing because it is probable that you wont settle for shooting at only 20 feet. Just to be on the safe side, put your target at the distance you will shoot most of the time. If you have a good scope, you will know how many clicks to adjust the correct elevation, so this should be a walk in the park. Load, aim, shoot, bullseye! If you have a cheap scope on which the numbers dont mean anything, you will have to do one more test. Shoot as described, and now turn the elevation knob so that you have the crosshair in the center, and look at the number on the knob. Its going to tell you how much elevation adjustment is made for each click. In that case, I would recommend you put a tape, with bars/numbers reflecting the distances so that you dont have to remember and recalculate everytime. You wanna shoot at 200 feet, you turn the knob on the 200 mark insteda of turning it on the "7" for instance. Also take note that the first adjustment at 20 feet does allow for a very large margin of error. That's why it is a good idea to repeat the process at long range. The first one was more so that you can take your first shot while being sure it was gonna be at least on the target. The main benefit of this procedure, is that the scope will be perfectly aligned, without considering the shooters bad habit, body positionning, technique or anything. The aiming will be neutral. If you find out that once this procedure is donem that you have a tendency to shoot off target, then maybe you could consider that you are the one having a problem shooting. I'm not flaming you or blaming you, just keep an open mind and remember that shooting precisely is not a video game. Some professional soldier will never shoot straight their entire life. If that happens, I suggest redoing the calibration once more. Maybe you just got unlucky, or careless, or it was windy or anything and you are a perfect shootr but it is the scope's fault. Maybe. So do it another time and see the results. If after the second calibration you still cannot shoot straight, i hate to break it to you, but you are just not a good shooter. Maybe take some lesson because there are more things implied in shooting accuratly than just point and shoot. Body positionning, breathing timing, mindset, general medical health (like very tired) are all things that can make you shoot badly. Obviously, drugs and alcohol should be avoided; and not only for accuracy purpose.

Well done my friend like your video how to zero a scope, god bless

very us full my friend .....thanks mate!

I usually adjust the reticle to the point of impact... after that, I’m ready for fine tuning.

GREAT! I like the POINTER too...

I had no idea zeroing was so complex. Thank you for the video, but all I do is shoot my target with a stationary rifle. See where the hole is and adjust the scope to where the hole was made. My next shot is usually dead on. Then increase the distance to target and repeat.. done.

Spot on, good man!

Good job.

COOL VIDEO MAN, AND GREAT WAY TO MAKE YOURSELF LOOK LIKE A GENIUS. I'll be sure to use the part where I pull out some paper, a pencil, and a calculator, draw some lines, angles, and put some yard numbers, that way when my girlfriend looks outside and checks what I'm doing from the window, she'll think I'm a smart man doing something smart! Ya man. Paper, pencil, and calculator is the best part, lmao. Christ how to go overboard when zero'ing a pellet rifle... lmao

just bought a new .177 and a 3-9x 40 scope.. good info thanks.. I have a small step ladder with a paint holder on .. it works great for a rifle rest.. got the scope yesterday and mounted it.. today I'm gonna shoot beer bottle caps @ 65 yards

Nice job.

added to my favourites, great video

Enjoyed the video, very informative. I was a little confused about how to figure out the clicks at the shorter distances and you explained it well. The only issue I had was the audio was out of sync with the video. Could be an issue on my end. Otherwise, two thumbs up.

Great video, great info, thanks for sharing with us. If you need shims and unsure how to find ELL, don’t tell your wife I said this. I use her aluminum foil, cut in approximately 1/4 , 3/8, 1/2: x 1 inch strips to use singularly or multiples to get the scope shimmed. Just my 2 cents.

Ok my friend's in Air Armour, I am looking at an Air Rifle, a Break Barrel piston .22-.25 cal for hunting small game ... it has to be no batteries ... which one of HAWKE Scope's do you recommend?

thanks dude..helping tutorial

very helpful thanks mate

Thank you.

Formula- Work with the distance given on the Scope 1/4" @ 100 yards 1. Get your ACTUAL DISTANCE from the Target and convert to yards. 2. Divide 100 yards by the amount of YOUR ACTUAL DISTANCE IN YARDS This equals the DISTANCE FACTOR that you use in Step 3. 3. Calculate the 1/4" Click Adjustment (.25) and Divide it by YOUR DISTANCE Factor. This give you YOUR CLICK FACTOR for the next step. 4. Measure the distance missed on the actual target Take this MEASUREMENT OF THE MISS in decimal format and divide by that by YOUR CLICK FACTOR. This gives you the NUMBER OF CLICKS to get to the Bulls Eye point on the Target. THANKS AIR ARMORY

If a scope has been adjusted all the way "out", either up or down... left or right and you needed to "re-center it".... would the correct way be.... to just wind it all the way in the opposite direction, while counting the clicks.... then "half" the total click count, back in the opposite direction again ?? Thanks for your time and response. Great Video... as all your video's are, and your efforts are much appreciated. Thank you, from the wilds of Wyoming, USA

Perfect thank you

great video. making it so easy...... thanks.

yes that helped sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much thank you

I would love to be able to use method 2 for my spring loaded rifle.

Thank you