How do you get it on paper?

[skywalkrNCSU]

I am going to zero in my new AR with a SWFA SS 10x this weekend and am not sure what is the most efficient process for getting it on paper so I can start to zero it. With a bolt gun I would just take the bolt out and bore sight it but I don't have a laser tool to use for the AR.

Is the best practice just to start at 25 yards or so?

[mkmckinley]

Start close and move back.

[skywalkrNCSU]

Thanks, figured as much but wasn't sure if there was something I was missing. Will be my first time zeroing some glass on an AR and am a novice at zeroing in general.

[markm]

Take the upper off the gun. Take the BCG out. Set it on something like the back of the couch and aim it at something about 50 yards away... I use my neighbor's roof jack across the street. Move the reticle so that it aims where the barrel is pointed when you look down the barrel.

No laser nonsense needed.

[skywalkrNCSU]

Ahhhh nice, thanks! That is a much better way of doing it.

[markm]

Sand backs/squeeze bags on a table aimed out a windo works better if you have that set up handy.

[CodeRed30]

Battlefield zero it and start at 25m and move back.

[markm]

Battlefield zero it and start at 25m and move back.

Why start at 25 when you can bore sight at home and not waste the time and ammo on the range?

[davidjinks]

Because the answer from the poster you quoted sounded really cool!

Why start at 25 when you can bore sight at home and not waste the time and ammo on the range?

On topic...use the bore just like markm described.

[Alaskapopo]

I am going to zero in my new AR with a SWFA SS 10x this weekend and am not sure what is the most efficient process for getting it on paper so I can start to zero it. With a bolt gun I would just take the bolt out and bore sight it but I don't have a laser tool to use for the AR.

Is the best practice just to start at 25 yards or so?

I put up a USPSA target at 25 yards with a 1 inch red dot sticker. It usually only takes 2 or 3 rounds to get it on. I set the point of impact approximately 1 inch below the dot. Then I got to 100 yards and finish with 3 shot groups. Generally I am zeroed in 12 rounds or so and very little time spent.
Pat