Mounting a scope

[normanvin]

This past week I was told a story about a guy who bought a new rifle and could not get it to sight in. This was relayed to me by a guy at work. So facts are a bit short. The guy I work with went to visit the guy with the new rifle over the holidays. The new rifle came with a scope mounted on it.

So new rifle guy tell the visitor he can not get the scope sighted. The visitor says lets take a walk out back and see what we can do. After a few shots the visitor tries to make an adjustment, only to discover the scope is mounted in the wrong orientation. The up/down and left/right turrets were rotated into the wrong position. The visitor tells new rifle guy that the scope is mounted wrong and new rifle guy says " that does not matter".


I never really gave this much thought. Does it matter?

[Jhaydeno]

It shouldn't matter if you can remember down for right, right for up, up for left, left for down!

[jerkin]

Not sure how that would be possible, if you rotated the scope to where the l/r turret was on the wrong side the u/d would be on the bottom against the receiver. If that was the case the l/r would work opposite.

After seeing what Jaydheno said I suppose it could work if it were only rotated 90 degrees, I was thinking 180 degrees.

[ar15jules]

You could sight in, but my OCD would not allow me to do this...

[normanvin]

Not sure how that would be possible, if you rotated the scope to where the l/r turret was on the wrong side the u/d would be on the bottom against the receiver. If that was the case the l/r would work opposite.

If you rotate counter clock wise.

[jerkin]

You could sight in, but my OCD would not allow me to do this...

Yeah really, not sure why the guy wouldn't take 2 minutes to loosen the screws and spin it, lol.

[normanvin]

Yeah really, not sure why the guy wouldn't take 2 minutes to loosen the screws and spin it, lol.

I agree. The visitor offered to do that. The new rifle guy insisted to take it back to the shop.

[animalmother85]

I agree. The visitor offered to do that. The new rifle guy insisted to take it back to the shop.

Let him go. Fuck it.

[dkf]

If the reticle is symetrical, the scope is zeroed and left alone with no side focus it really wouldn't matter. Just makes you look like an idiot that can't even mount a scope right.

[aubie515]

This post goes to show that not everyone with a firearm has any intelligence.