[Dallas Jack]

I always center the reticles on scopes that I mount . I have found no need to bore sight after doing this . The fact that your reticle is within an inch of center in each direction verifies that your scope mounting holes are drilled in almost perfect allignment with the bore of your rifle . Your scope bases and rings are nigh onto perfect too !

When I mounted this scope I had centered it first by counting the clicks. The rings were centered using a lapping bar and then lapped to maximum contact. In other words care was taken to insure things would be correct.

I don't know anything about that mirror business you mentioned , or what the use of it would be . Is there any smoke involved with that mirror ?

I visit and read many different gun forums. The "mirror" method had been mentioned on several. It is used to recenter a reticle. As I understand it you hold a mirror to the objective and adjust the reticle until the reflection overlaps. Apperantly I did it wrong and was looking for a responce from someone that uses this method to explain what I was seeing.

P.S. You had it sighted in why mess with it? The rifle doesn't shoot according to bore-sight it shoots according to your 100 yd adjustment.....of course there's a difference...

I was doing this to see how much adjustment there was left after sightin. It had nothing to do with the difference between bore sight and final sightin and everything to do with what was left for dailing the scope for distance.

I hadn't tried to dial in the scope (for more elevation) before and did this just to find out how much adjustment was left. Thought it would be a good idea to find this out at home instead of when I needed it for shooting at something.

Thanks for the info though.
Dallas Jack