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Clyde777
06-08-18, 21:16
I am gonna get into shooting with an RMR I picked up an atom slide and it came with their sights and I got an rmr type 2. My question is how do you sight in the rmr before shooting it? Do you just co witness it with the sights similar to a red dot on a rifle?
ggammell
06-08-18, 22:01
Pick a distance you want it zeroed at and zero it at that distance. Your iron sights will have a zero somewhere between 5 and 25 yards. You’ll have to shoot B8s to figure out what they are. My armeriglos are somewhere between like 7 and 10 yards. I zeroed my RMR at 10. 10, 15, 25 seem to be the popular ones. I initially did the exact co witness thing but it just didn’t seem to work right. When I picked a zero and went with it it felt much more natural.
Wake27
06-08-18, 22:09
Lollipopping like you would on an AR dot should be close enough to get you on paper. Once you get to the range, I'd start at 10 to make sure and then push back to your desired zero distance. Zeroing a dot on a pistol was really weird to me.
Business_Casual
06-09-18, 12:56
Lollipopping like you would on an AR dot should be close enough to get you on paper. Once you get to the range, I'd start at 10 to make sure and then push back to your desired zero distance. Zeroing a dot on a pistol was really weird to me.

This is how I’ve done it, works very well.
MegademiC
06-09-18, 21:06
^agree

Lillipop it.

Go to 10 and sight in slightly low with a few rounds, or close enough(within an inch or so)

Go to 25 and get a rough zero. Shoot a 10 shot group, adjust, 10 shot group to confirm. Leave range.

Come back and shoot fresh 10 shot group (fresh but not necessarily cold), to confirm zero- make minor adjustments.
Use carry ammo.

I actually shot a few 10 shot groups over the course of a few weeks before making final adjustment to bring average center over the bull. Too much variability to base on 1 range trip IMO
bp7178
06-09-18, 23:13
Am I the only one that recognizes the fallacy of non-machine rested 10 shot groups?
JeffM.
06-09-18, 23:50
Am I the only one that recognizes the fallacy of non-machine rested 10 shot groups?

I’m not sure what you mean by this. Sighting in a pistol is completely different than determining its mechanical accuracy.

If I’m firing a pistol, it won’t be machine rested. I’d like my POI to match MY POA, not some machine’s.

And a 10 round group that I’VE shot will give a good data set indicating where MY shots are hitting.
MegademiC
06-10-18, 10:47
Am I the only one that recognizes the fallacy of non-machine rested 10 shot groups?

I dont know what this means. What is the mistaken belief?
ggammell
06-10-18, 10:56
Am I the only one that recognizes the fallacy of non-machine rested 10 shot groups?

Do you zero your rifles from the prone or from machine rests?
Jolly Green1
06-12-18, 19:37
I took a class with Modern Samurai Project recently. As I recall, Scott that he sights gets it on paper at the 5 yard line, then sights in at the 10 and calls it good.

It was something like that.
ggammell
06-12-18, 20:28
I took a class with Modern Samurai Project recently. As I recall, Scott that he sights gets it on paper at the 5 yard line, then sights in at the 10 and calls it good.

It was something like that.

This is correct. Jedi pushes a 10 yard zero.
Joe8845
06-21-18, 10:29
i lollipop-ed it and shot at 5 yards benched and then i moved out to 10 and tuned it from there. brought it back to five and took shots and took notice of where the shots were hitting.