Hello,
I am helping a friend of mine with putting a scope on his Remington 5R mil spec. The scope is a Nightforce that was previously on my 5R mil spec.
The rail is EGW and was previously on another 700 with no issues. It fits like a glove and does not need to be bedded. We installed it and torque it up to spec. We have burris xtr 30 mm rings we then mounted to the base.
I loosely put them on and moved them all the way forward in the picatinny and tightened them to 65 in lbs. We moved the scope back and forth to get the proper eye relief. Once accomplished we snugged the torques on the rings up enough to hold it firm. We put the bore sighting tool in and the scope does not have enough Left adjustment in it to make it to the grids. I thought maybe it was the bore sighter so i tried it on other guns. Worked perfect and they are zeroed. We took everything back apart and went over it step by step very carefully trying to figure out what was wrong. Still the scope is not able to get inside the grids. It is far Right. Any ideas on what is wrong? Could the receiver be drilled wrong by Remington? I am puzzled!
I am helping a friend of mine with putting a scope on his Remington 5R mil spec. The scope is a Nightforce that was previously on my 5R mil spec.
The rail is EGW and was previously on another 700 with no issues. It fits like a glove and does not need to be bedded. We installed it and torque it up to spec. We have burris xtr 30 mm rings we then mounted to the base.
I loosely put them on and moved them all the way forward in the picatinny and tightened them to 65 in lbs. We moved the scope back and forth to get the proper eye relief. Once accomplished we snugged the torques on the rings up enough to hold it firm. We put the bore sighting tool in and the scope does not have enough Left adjustment in it to make it to the grids. I thought maybe it was the bore sighter so i tried it on other guns. Worked perfect and they are zeroed. We took everything back apart and went over it step by step very carefully trying to figure out what was wrong. Still the scope is not able to get inside the grids. It is far Right. Any ideas on what is wrong? Could the receiver be drilled wrong by Remington? I am puzzled!