will different ring height affect accuracy?

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ohihunter2014

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went from medium burris rings to high burris rings and was wondering how much it will effect accuracy?

guns dead on at 100yards, I think it will bring it up a little so I should be on at 200?

new to the whole rifle thing so sorry for the dumb question.
 
Rings don't effect accuracy. The height will change the ballistic curve based on what your zero. A higher scope will cause the bullet path to be more acute. Punch in 1" sight height on a program with a 100 yard zero. Change the sight to 4" and look at the trajectory numbers down range. Very educational.

Greg
 
^^ sorry you lost me with the 1 inch and scope program. I use vortex and don't think they offer scope height or ring height in their program for bdc.

after thinking about it I think the bullet will hit higher cause of the higher rings/x hairs being higher. almost like bringing it up in elevation clicks if that makes sense.
 
The scope will have to be redialed. Changing rings will change everything down range. A BDC scope will be slightly skewed in POI.

Greg
 
i think GL was referring to a balistic's program - like strelok, etc. your reticle/scope wont mater, just look at the data.


as noted though - as long as you verify your adjustments, they should not effect accuracy, they will only effect how many clicks you have to change to adjust for distances.
 
Ring height wont affect the rifles accuracy. What it can affect is your cheek weld on the stock which may affect your ability to shoot it as well as you did. I don't use a ballistic program so I cant advise on those. Line of sight above the line of the bore does affect down range trajectory.
 
Originally Posted By: ohihunter2014I just didn't want to go back to the range to re sight in but looks like ill have to. I figured it would hit high with high rings.

In a perfect world maybe not but you took the scope and swapped the rings under it. Just a few things that might be food for thought supporting why you would need to rezero the rifle.

Is the scope the exact distance fore and aft from where it was before? Are the rings exactly the same height, distance from base + the height, as in one taller than the other to the center relative to the old rings? Are the bases, assuming you used the same ones interfacing with the rings in the exact same foot print as the old ones as in squareness to the axis of the bases/ring combination?

Greg

BTW and excuse to go to the range is often a blessing. Trigger time is always a good time for me.
 
Anytime you pull scope off of gun and put it on you are rezeroing. Even if you leave it in same rings. At least in my experiences. Pull scope off and put new rings on....forget about it.
 
I put together a TC encore for a friend of ours son. His dad was killed before he was born. Encore pro hunter 243 nikon 4.5 x14 weaver steel base and steel medium rings. I picked up a box of my hand loads that my daughter uses in her encore. The 100 grain sierra pro hunter landed exactly 1 inch high perfectly centered in a 3/4 inch 3 shot group. Sometimes you get lucky.
 
Even when You bump a scope pretty good You need to check to make sure it's still sighted in....changing the Rings even if they are a different style or brand and the same height You will need to start over and a
Re-sight Your Rifle in again!

I would think putting taller Rings would affect Your point if impact at Closer Range and not so much at further away and I thought the closer/lower the scope is to the Rifle Barrel the more Accurate it would be?
 
Originally Posted By: GTOHunterEven when You bump a scope pretty good You need to check to make sure it's still sighted in....changing the Rings even if they are a different style or brand and the same height You will need to start over and a
Re-sight Your Rifle in again!

I would think putting taller Rings would affect Your point if impact at Closer Range and not so much at further away and I thought the closer/lower the scope is to the Rifle Barrel the more Accurate it would be?

As a teenager (too many years ago) I once bumped a scope and
didn't re-sight. It cost me what would have been my first
wall-hanger buck. HARD lesson learned!

Canting the rifle will magnify POI change with higher rings. It
makes it even more important to keep the horizontal hair in
the scope level with each shot.

Any time any change is made with a rifle, it should be checked
for POI: scope removal and reattached (even QLR rings, though
they may hold better accuracy than most), change in ammo
(bullet weight or brand), powder type changes, etc. Your rifle
has a slim chance of hitting target at same POI, and you may
have a chance of winning the lottery!
 
My opinion, even if you change the color of your rifle, do yourself and your prey a favor, go to the range and check your zero. Different rings, different POI.
 
thanks guys, just didn't want to mess with the range cause 1 the only range I have access to is almost 2hrs away, 2 I have a good buddy that is a hunt club member and asked him the last 3 times to shoot. once when I got it, realized the package scope was junk. swapped the scope and shot, now put the high rings on. just didn't want to push my luck. I asked him today and he said heck yeah lets go do it so ill be re sighting in tomorrow.


thanks for the help guys!
 
Originally Posted By: ohihunter2014I just didn't want to go back to the range to re sight in but looks like ill have to. I figured it would hit high with high rings.

In theory, if you change NOTHING but the height of the rings, then your rifle will hit LOW when you install taller rings. The relative angle between the boreline and the line of sight has not changed, but has only become off-set by the additional height.

But unfortunately, it's more likely that some other small offset was changed also - whether it's the fore/aft positioning of the scope, left to right, angulation, etc.

Resight the rifle.
 
Well Stated DannoBoone....I didn't even think about mentioning if You change Ammo Brands and Weight of Bullets to re-sight Your Rifle in again,good Points to mention also!
 
I would think that a higher scope will make the zero lower. Because you will be lowering the crosshairs to be on target? Take the time to resight and you will not be second guessing yourself! Rudy You might need a cheek pad so your eye lines up with the scope. I have 2 Vortex with medium rings and got cheek pads and I love them! My eye line up with the scope every time. It has more to do with the cheek on the stock than the rings. Rudy
 
Originally Posted By: rudymontanaI would think that a higher scope will make the zero lower. Because you will be lowering the crosshairs to be on target?

Picture it this way - you shoot your rifle such that it's perfectly on target, then lock it 100% rigid so it cannot move - the barrel is pointed perfectly to deliver the bullet on target.

Then you raise your scope, keeping its line of sight parallel to the old line of sight - just higher. So your scope originally was pointing directly at the target, now you've RAISED the crosshairs over the bore. Since your rifle did not move, the barrel is still pointed where it was, and it will still hit on target, but the crosshairs are HIGHER, so POA is ABOVE the bullseye.

Naturally then, when you lower the crosshairs onto target, then the barrel will move down relative to its original position.

But the answer is still the same - rezero the rifle.
 


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