zeroing ar-15

**knomas** · March 27th, 2011, 10:51 AM

Forgive me but I am new at this whole forum thing. I hope I am in the right place to ask a question. I would like to know if someone can tell me which target I should use to zero my weapon at 25 m. I have an LMT AR-15 with a 16" barrel. Should I be using the M16A2 target or the M4 target?

**Guns4Fun** · March 27th, 2011, 11:51 AM

Welcome to the board.

I'd use the m4.

But really, any ol target will work. Also, if possible, i'd use a 50 yd zero. It just works better from 0 - 200 yds.

**spacemanvic** · March 27th, 2011, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by knomas

Forgive me but I am new at this whole forum thing. I hope I am in the right place to ask a question. I would like to know if someone can tell me which target I should use to zero my weapon at 25 m. I have an LMT AR-15 with a 16" barrel. Should I be using the M16A2 target or the M4 target?

Dont think it really matters, they look functionally the same. You may want to check if your area allows human shaped targets (some ranges in NJ/NY only allowed human silhouettes to be used by LEO/AM) first.

Google either, there are PDFs available to print out.

M16 zero

M4 zero

**EvoRich** · March 27th, 2011, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by Guns4Fun

Welcome to the board.

I'd use the m4.

But really, any ol target will work. Also, if possible, i'd use a 50 yd zero. It just works better from 0 - 200 yds.

Agree, 50 yard zero works perfect. There are my "calculations" using a ballistics calculator on my phone

if you can read my writing. The * number is the distance of zero and then below is how high or low you'll be from zero. These are just calculations, no cross wind, or any variables.

**wheeling365** · March 27th, 2011, 07:23 PM

Again welcome to the site.

Have some questions first.

What style rear sight is on it? Fixed carry handle, removeable carry handle or some style flip up rear sight?

Also is it a standard fixed front sight or some style of a flip/folding sight?

This will all make a difference if you want to use the military style zero targets to get sighted in. Each variation of the sights can change which of the 2 targets you would need.

If you try searching for FM 3-22.9 that it the army's manual that pretty much covers everything M16/M4 related. It has everything from zeroing to advanced rifle marksmanship in it.

**knomas** · March 28th, 2011, 06:38 AM

No carry handle. It has a flat monolithic rail with detachable LMT iron sights both front and rear. Although the front is detachable it looks very much like your standard fixed sight.