Rifle Scopes Steiner 5356 unable to dial down on elevation

[Judge]

I have a Steiner 3-12x56 Military with 19.5 mils of “up“ elevation and no down adjustment. If mounted on 0 moa base how can I gain down adjustment? This scope comes from factory with the mechanical zero at the bottom ( ex: on a scope with 20 mil total adjustment you get 10 up & 10 down in mils). With this scope you get all of the total mils in elevation “only” up, no down adjustment.

I searched the threads and people just quote the manual which doesnt work for some reason on getting more down
adjustment. I did loosen elevation turret and turned in “up” direction then retightened turret screws. All this did was changed the numerical value of turret cap from “0” to whatever number I decided to add when I spun the turret cap.
I still had no down adjustment. (Ex: want to add 5 mils down so I loosen turret cap and spin in “up“ direction 5 mils from 0, retighten cap and now instead of cap reading 0 it reads 5 and still cannot turn turret to go down on elevation)

 

[TMR137]

The Steiner Military 3-12 only has 19.5 mils of total elevation adjustment built into the scope. That is why it stays at 5 mils when you slip the turret to try and gain more. There isn’t anymore to gain.
Here is a link to the specs of your scope.

Steiner 3-12x50mm Military Tactical Riflescope

www.steiner-scopes.com

if you are wanting to get to “10 up and 10 down”, you need to actually dial the turret up to 10 mils, then loosen the turret and slip it back to 0.
Dial up
loosen turret
slip to zero
tighten turret

should get you going.

 

[Judge]

TMR137........ thanks bud.........could not figure it out without you.

 

[supercorndogs]

You have something else going on. 19.5 is not the total travel of the the scope. 19.5 is all the turret on those older Steiner military scope allows. But the scope has much more total. I have had several of them, and never had one bottom out when zeroing. What is the slope of your base and mount? What is your set up like? If you are on a 0 MOA base with rings. I think something probably is crooked.