Hey! Tye here with Palmetto State Armory and we're here in Swansea, South Carolina today at Palmetto Outdoors. And we have Hank Strange here to help us zero an AR-15. Hank. Thanks for coming down, Tye. Thanks for inviting me. Let's go bust some caps.
Gear List:
- Eye and Ear Protection
- PSA AR-15 Rifle 5.56 16" with MBUS Sight Set
- Magpul Mbus Front and Rear Back-Up Sights
- SIG Sauer Romeo5 Red Dot Sight
- PMC X-Tac 5.56 Ammo
- Magpul 5.56 Magazine
- Dirty Bird 12" Sight-In Targets
So we've made it out to the range. Let's talk about the gear. We need to shoot out here first, starting with the eyes and ears. Definitely need those. Next, I want to go to the rifle. We have the rifle out here and we have Magpul Mbus sights on here. So we're going to start by zeroing these irons, and then we'll go to the SIG Sauer Romeo 5 that we have.
We have a sight tool with us and we've got PMC X-TAC 5.56 as well. We also have a Magpul magazine and our targets that we're shooting at are these Dirtybird targets. And we brought out a marker just in case we need to mark off where we are hitting.
All right. So we've made our rifle clear and safe. So our next step is to go down range and set up our targets.
We've chosen to zero our rifle at 50 yards today, depending on the purpose of use of your firearm, you want to decide what distance you want to zero at.
Finding Point of Impact [1:49]
So with our targets set up, we're ready to start shooting to find out where our point of impact is on the rifle right now, going to load in three rounds. Good to go. So now that we've got our targets up down there, let's start shooting.
Adjusting the Front Sights [2:17]
Let me see what that did down there. So the point of impact on the target was a little high. So I'm going to adjust the front sight *UP a click or two. So I'm just going to put this in, push down and turn.
So it looks like our elevations. Pretty good. I'm just going to adjust our windage and then we should be in.
All right. So at 50 yards, I'm pretty good with that grouping. Let's get the red dot on the site that in.
Sighting in the Red Dot [3:19]
So we have the red dot. And what we did was we went ahead and "lollipop it", which basically means we took the red dot and adjusted it until it's sitting right on top of the front sight. We're going to drop out iron sights down and we're going to go ahead and shoot to confirm our red dot. See if we need to make any adjustments.
So it looks like our impact point is just a little left of the center of the target. So our elevation seems fine. We're going to go ahead and adjust our windage to correct that on this particular red dot the cap has a little notch in it to help us adjust and I'm just going to go five clicks counter-clockwise.
So I made those adjustments. We're going to go ahead and fire three more rounds downrange.
Tye, thanks to you and PSA for inviting me out here. It was really a lot of fun to see this go from zero to AR-15, and then bringing it out here on the range and testing it. Hank, appreciate you coming out. And it was great to see you take all those parts and create a fully functional. For all you at home.
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