Fordzilla
September 21, 2004, 23:56
My ignorance in the area of the topic may be a source of amusement for some, but I've got to bite the bullet and ask my question. The reason I never familarized myself with these optics is that I never felt the need for anything more than a tritium sight and maybe a weapon light in the past.
I recently purchased a Meprolight Mepor 21 reflex (red dot) scope. I definitely prefer the use of iron sights, so I set out to find a way to get my reflex scope to cowitness with my iron sights.
The solution that I came up with was to get a riser mount, which elevated the mount for the scope and had a "see through" recess between the dustcover and the scope mount. This riser mount mounts to the flat-top piccatinny rail of my SA58, and is configured with another piccatinny rail on top, atop of which my Mepor 21 mounts.
The problem is that the manufacturer of the riser mount made the base of the mount (which attaches to my dustcover's flat top) about 5 times the thickness that it needs to be, thus, I had to raise my rear sight to its highest setting, and my front post almost all the way. This has apparently allowed the spring under the front post to distort its angle, and cause my shots to go about 4" left at 100 yards.
I'm going to try to have quite a bit of metal machined from the base of the riser mount to fix that problem, however:
The instruction manual for my Mepor 21 scope states that scope is to be zeroed at 25yds, and that at that setting, the weapon will hit "slightly" lower (about 4-5") at close ranges, such as 7yds, and "slightly" higher (about 2' higher ) at 100yds, which the shooter will just have to make mental note of and compensate point of aim for.
I hate this. Is this proprietary to my Mepor 21, or is this pretty much the way it goes for reflex scopes, such as the EOTech?
Please advise. If this is only the case with my Meprolight scope, I'm selling it for an EOTech.
I recently purchased a Meprolight Mepor 21 reflex (red dot) scope. I definitely prefer the use of iron sights, so I set out to find a way to get my reflex scope to cowitness with my iron sights.
The solution that I came up with was to get a riser mount, which elevated the mount for the scope and had a "see through" recess between the dustcover and the scope mount. This riser mount mounts to the flat-top piccatinny rail of my SA58, and is configured with another piccatinny rail on top, atop of which my Mepor 21 mounts.
The problem is that the manufacturer of the riser mount made the base of the mount (which attaches to my dustcover's flat top) about 5 times the thickness that it needs to be, thus, I had to raise my rear sight to its highest setting, and my front post almost all the way. This has apparently allowed the spring under the front post to distort its angle, and cause my shots to go about 4" left at 100 yards.
I'm going to try to have quite a bit of metal machined from the base of the riser mount to fix that problem, however:
The instruction manual for my Mepor 21 scope states that scope is to be zeroed at 25yds, and that at that setting, the weapon will hit "slightly" lower (about 4-5") at close ranges, such as 7yds, and "slightly" higher (about 2' higher ) at 100yds, which the shooter will just have to make mental note of and compensate point of aim for.
I hate this. Is this proprietary to my Mepor 21, or is this pretty much the way it goes for reflex scopes, such as the EOTech?
Please advise. If this is only the case with my Meprolight scope, I'm selling it for an EOTech.