Sighting my G36C?

VonLuck

So I want to improve the accuracy of my G36C. I've read that to ensure you have an accurate gun you must stand about 3 or 4 feet away from a target, aim for a spot and adjust the rear sight until the pellets are hitting the spot you are aiming at.

Is this the correct procedure? If so, I must be doing something wrong! I've loosened my rear sight to the max (anymore and the sight will fall off). While the pellets are getting closer to the mark they are still off.

Any tips? Thanks in advance.

Gatling

3-4 feet is way too short to zero your sights, your better off @25 ft then tune your hop up to your sights either Iron or what ever optics you may be using,then do the same for longer ranges 50-75 -100 ft

VonLuck

Gatling wrote: »

3-4 feet is way too short to zero your sights, your better off @25 ft then tune your hop up to your sights either Iron or what ever optics you may be using,then do the same for longer ranges 50-75 -100 ft

Well I read that somewhere and then thought about it and it kind of made sense. Surely if its not on target within 4 feet its not going to be on target at 40 feet?

I am using iron sights by the way. I think I had some hop up applied as well. Would hop up cause the bb to initially dip, then go up?

Spooky-Vinny

you'd want to stand faaaaar further than to adjust your sights man, your hop up doesn't even become noticable for another few more feet.
And even at that it would all depend on your adjustment of hopup for your sights to be accurate (sinse some airsoft sights require you to turn your hopup off to be cronode)
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Stonewolf

You should adjust your sights at the range you expect to use them most.

VonLuck

Yeah it makes sense to adjust the sight at your shooting distances. But you'd think the bb would be on target at 4 feet away! Go figure.

Tommyboy71

Unlike real steel, airsoft sights are not made to be uber precise. You can get a gun straight out of the box and the sights will zero pretty easily or you may never ever be able to zero them fully.

Stonewolf

VonLuck wrote: »

Yeah it makes sense to adjust the sight at your shooting distances. But you'd think the bb would be on target at 4 feet away! Go figure.

You're forgetting a couple of factors.

Firstly BBs do not fly straight and flat.
Secondly at 1m (seriously people it's 21st century Europe here) you might have a deviation of 2mm which is less than the radius of the BB. If you then shoot at a target 30m away the same deviation angle will result in a deviation of 60mm. A larger deviation of say 6mm (the diameter of the BB) would result in a deviation of 180mm. For this reason it's better to zero your sights at longer ranges. You might think this is no big deal afterall you'd never let it be off by 6mm and a more reasonable 2mm doesn't produce a large deviation downrange however ... your gun is not perfectly accurate and neither are your sights and as someone else pointed out airsoft equipment is generally poor in this area (guns because of physical limitations and sights because of price generally). There are also human factors to consider, it may look like it's only 2mm out and sure that's grand but there's no guarantee you didn't move ever so slightly when taking the shot.

The best advice therefore is to zero at either the optimum range of the gun (varies by gun and shooter) or the range you will do the most shooting with this sight (you might have multiple sights for different encounter ranges, if you only have one this should be the same as optimum range).