Help with a Number 4T

[john Brandon]

Hi Guys
I would really like to get some advise on zeroing my No4T please. I have just ordered "An Armourers perspective" but i still have to wait for it to come, and I'm confused, to say the least. Ok, I bought it last week for a very reasonable price (£1200 without scope) I bought it believing it to be a bitsa, no problem there. Honestly I am retired, and I can't warrant spending vast amounts of money on a toy, so I opted for one that I "think" is ok. The receiver is stamped for BSA and it has the TR stamp, plus the T on the action, although the woodwork has the S51 stamp, and the serial number stamped, it doesn't take a lot to replicate that, so I'm taking it with a pinch of salt. I'm pretty sure the pads are repro (they are not pinned either) The scope, I bought a few months ago, and yes sadly it is a repro, but at £300 I couldn't resist. Ouch, I hear the purists say, but until funds permit, it will do, or will it?

I took it to the range on Sunday to have a few sighters. I ended up scaling the distance drum to 500 yrds to get it anywhere near the target (50 metre range) and coming acrosss on the windage to it's limit. So, when I got home, I set about trying to adjust the drums. I managed to do the windage quite easily, but the distance one, well, for the life of me I can't seem to get it right, and the T bar looks far too low, consequently I've run out of travel at 400 yards (hope that makes sense.

In short, when looking through the scope the bar sits far too close to the bottom for my liking. I have a laser bore sighter and have "set" the sights on their lowest click. but it won't give me full travel up to 1000yards
I did read somewhere on here that it was possible to loosen the 4 retaining screws if the drum went tight, re-seat, then re-tighten. I hope this makes perfect sense to someone out there, as I'm getting ready to throw it down the range
Let me know what you think, I can take it I have broad shoulders Thanks

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