Adjusting your sites

[chofmeister]

Hey there,
From Vancouver Island but I am working in Japan for a couple years and have recently bought a new Generation TM SCAR-H

I have a question about adjusting the iron sites and the HOP up (although I guess this applies to adjusting a scope as well).

I've sited a regular gun before but the HOP up system adds another level of adjustability. My question is

- What order do you make adjustments?


I've done a couple searches on this site but haven't found anything.
I'f you could help me out or re direct me that would be great.

[Kingsix]

First adjust hopup so your bb's have the flattest trajectory.

Then adjust the sights like any rifle or pellet gun

or you can use a laser boresighter to bring your ironsights close before adjusting hopup.

[chofmeister]

How are people doing this? Are you setting up the gun at a certain height and then the target at the same height (60m or so away) and using a level on the gun?
The question I'm getting at is; since you don't know if your sites are out you can't really use them as the control how do you know that your hop is really flat?

[RainyEyes]

Originally Posted by chofmeister

How are people doing this? Are you setting up the gun at a certain height and then the target at the same height (60m or so away) and using a level on the gun?
The question I'm getting at is; since you don't know if your sites are out you can't really use them as the control how do you know that your hop is really flat?

Set up a range. Zeroing your sights is a time consuming process. It's not as important for CQB than it is for DMR's.

Get a range at about 20-40 meters. Depending on how far you engage your target, go with the average.

Set your gun up so that it will not wobble. Mount it with a bipod or something, so long as it does not move. Fire it down range looking down the sights. You can tell if it's flat or not by looking down the range with 2 eyes open. One in the sight, one on the target. With a little bit of practice, you can see if the trajectory is going up or down, and how far the bb travels until it starts to drop.

I actually went the other way and adjusted the left/right up/down sights before doing hop up because I assume that the spin won't make it curve left or right.

[BobbyDangerous]

Takes me no time to zero in sites, scopes or red dots.


I did have trouble on the Aimpoint. Sitting on the Wilcox, the scope sits high up and won't adjust that low. Same with sitting on the carry handle mount. But prob cause it's a bootleg Aimpoint.