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Anybody else have this problem before? New Dakota, talley bases & medium QD rings, Zeiss 40mm scope mounted on rifle. Maxed out the "down adjustment and rifle still shoots high (12 inches) at 50 yards. Bases mounted properly, level, Dakota says the rifle shot 1/2 inch groups at 100 yds. Went to local shop, put on aluminum (all they had) Weaver bases and Leopold QD rings. Rifle sights in fine... Gunsmith says he had similar problem with Zeiss.. Very strange. Second issue, are aluminum bases adequate for 375 H&H - I think not. I do have steel rings... ______________________________ "Are you gonna pull them pistols,...or whistle Dixie??" Josie Wales 1866 | ||
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Doesn't sound like a zeiss problem, sounds like a ring/base problem. You are saying that it sights in with weavers but not talley's right? call gary turner at talley and tell him what's going on. | |||
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First thing I would do is look to see if there was any pressure against the bottom of the barrel. If not, then I would move on to examine the mounts, and then work my way back to the scope. If everything looked good on the outside, I would then attach a "magnetic" boresighter to the barrel and mark the position of the cross hairs on a piece of paper, and then without disturbing the setting, remove the barrelled action from the stock and look to see if my point of reference had changed. Then I would go from there. | |||
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The first thing I would do is make sure that both turrets are pushed in so that you are making adjustment and not just setting the knob to indicate zero. 99% of the democrats give the rest a bad name. "O" = zero NRA life member | |||
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I shoot five Ziess scopes and have never had that problem. Get the right bases and find another gunsmith who knows what he is doing. Put what the book calls for and go on down the road. I just had my newest one mounted yesterday and my smith looked in his book picked the Leupold bases for that rifle and in 10 minutes I was on the road.  Good luck and good shooting.phurley | |||
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The gunsmith did call the Talley people, and they said it appeared the the rings and bases were in order. He did have quite a time figuring out how the tallet rings went together and tightened up. I do suspect he is a little clueless... The rear fixed sight came from Dakota without a notch cut, and the rifle was shooting high. He filed and filed down, all the way to the radius and the rifle was still high 18 inches. Is this correct- file down the rear sight to lower the elevation???....it seems to be this is incorrect....but I am mechanically clueless. | |||
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Yes, you move the rear sight in the direction you want your bullet to go. That applies to scopes as well. If you raise the back end of the scope, your bullets impact higher. FWIW, if there is pressure against the bottom of the barrel, your bullets will impact higher as well. The greater the pressure, the higher the impact. Good luck. | |||
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