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ACOG help?

  • 08-12-2011 2:59pm
    #1
    stephenw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭


    Hello, I recently got an EA ACOG replica red/green dot. the trouble I'm having is i'm trying to zero it, but the the adjustments seem to have no effect on where the dot is?, anybody else have this problem or know how to fix it?,
    thanks :)


Comments

  • #2
    Allosaur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Allosaur


    It won't by and large. Those dials are for making very minor (micro) adjustments. Make sure that the sight is sitting correctly on the rails first,. Thats the most common cause of large scale discrepencies. Then once you do get it right. - Don't fricken touch it.

    What make / type did you get and how much was it. Cheap ones tend to be very hit and miss (no pun intended) on the fitting.


  • #3
    CpcRc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 975 ✭✭✭CpcRc


    The best way to zero an optic is to have the aeg lying flat while you aim directly at a target at a set distance away. Lying it on a table and setting up a target at the same height at a distance of 20 or 30m should be grand.

    Like Allosaur said, the reticle will move slightly with each turn of the dial so you'll have to work on it for a few minutes before you'll start getting it to where it's supposed to be.

    Also, if the reticle is adjusted to one of the extremes (top,bottom,right,left) it won't go any farther in that direction and will take a good bit of adjustment to get back to around the centre.


  • #4
    SNAKEDOC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭SNAKEDOC


    not everybody has this kind of facility but a vice is great for zeroing an aeg. use the iron sights first as on my m4 then when i have it zeroed i detach the handle rear sight and attach my sight then zero the sight on the target all the while not moving the body and the barrel of the aeg so every bb is theoretically going exactly where the last one did. trying to adjust a sight while holding it is very difficult.


  • #5
    stephenw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭stephenw


    it's a pretty cheap one from e-hobby, but it's about 1cm away from the tip of my front sight, i twist and twist and it makes no difference, then it gets harder to twist, and I dont want to force it.


  • #6
    Allosaur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Allosaur


    stephenw wrote: »
    it's a pretty cheap one from e-hobby, but it's about 1cm away from the tip of my front sight, i twist and twist and it makes no difference, then it gets harder to twist, and I dont want to force it.
    Don't.
    Reset it to neutral. Check the mounting Then use the zeroing techniques mentioned above.

    Basically start again. And remember. Fine adjustments only. Better to take a little longer in getting it right then to spend all night chasing the zero.

    Oh, and also remember, that the package will only be as consistant as the AEG part of it. So you may have to settle for averaging the scope.


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