Zeroing the Garand Question

[Amsdorf]

I'm getting a massive migrain reading a lot of posts and suggestions about how to zero the Garand.

Need some advice. What do you guys say to this?

Best advice I've heard so far is...and this is assuming you want to zero it at 100 yards...

Get on the bullseye at 100 from a good benchrest, then, when you are there, carefully hold the rear peep site and unscrew the sight knob, turn it all the way down, and tighten it back down.

That way you will be zeroed at 100 yards, permanently, and then you can adjust it up for longer distances, or hold it differently for anything under 100.

I've been told that if you do this and you are in a competition and your knob gets loose, you just readjust it like before and click up from there.

Would appreciate your thoughts on this.

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[mannparks]

amsdorf,if you have not allready looked at the [Knowledge Library] section ,the video on the GARAND will tell how too use the GARAND sight.
Milsurps - Rifle Marksmanship with the M1 Garand Rifle (1942))
charles
ps thank badger

[Bob Seijas]

Shoot at 25 yards, start with center windage and 9 clicks of elevation (the average setting). Fire three shots, check the center of the group. Move the group by changing the rear sight setting in the direction you want it to go, each click will move it 1/4 inch at that range. When you have the group where you want it, you have your 200 yard battle sight setting that will allow you to engage man-sized targets from 50 yards to 500 yards without changing the sight. Run the sight to the bottom and count the clicks. Put a piece of masking tape on the inside of the butt plate door and write your battle sight setting on it as "L2 - U12" or whatever it is. That was the procedure at Ft. Dix in 1960

[Ben Hartley]

Absolutely the same procedure was taught at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts in 1958 or 1959, too!

Ben Hartley

[Amsdorf]

Thanks Bob and Ben, I'll give your method/the Army's method, a try.