Need help Sighting in my scope ( 0 )

[umerixandme]

Hey everyone I'm trying to sight in my scope to be as accurate as possible anyone in mountain home or boise area willing to help?

[72camaro]

My preference on shooting whistle pigs is a .22lr and/or .17hmr with a scope though you can do with handgun and pellet guns but not my first choice.

I'd use a .22 pellet if you are insisting on a pellet gun and something with at least 610fps with a break barrel or PCP gun (that means an advertised of around 800fps). If using a break barrel look up 'military hold' for how to shoot it more accurately. The pellet I'd use would be the Diabolo Exact Jumbo pellet at 15.89gr. Set your target up at 30 to 35 yards and find a way to bench it but still use a military hold. Shoot about 5 and see were it groups on paper. Scope should be a minimum of 3-9x40, I would think and would have to be of pellet gun grade, and that is important so look them up. After seeing where the pellets group the easiest to get closer is to again hold the gun super still on the cross hairs on the bench and turn the turrets till your cross hairs are over the center of your group. Shoot 5 more and then do the same thing or this time since you are close move the turrets the right amount of turns and get it centered on the cross hairs. For a 1/4" per 100yd scope per click, at 33yds you are about 1/3rd that, so just over 1/16" per click. It will usually say which way it will move cross hairs on the turret. Break barrel would be a long day shooting out of a vehicle at the whistle pigs.

Everyone is a bit slow on learning scope setting but do it enough it will become natural.

One other thing I forgot to do absolutely first, set the scope till it is comfortable distance to your eye roughly 4" away and in the right place if eyes closed and then mount rifle to your shoulder, open your eyes and you should be looking clearly down the center of the scope and it should be clear if you have adjusted for distance. Then the next important thing is to make sure the scope is level so get some scope levels and go at it. There will be Youtube for that too. There are better products to level a scope but for now the scope levels will be close enough.