Henry Long Ranger Scope Mounting & Leveling Tutorial
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- čas přidán 7. 11. 2021
- Getting ready for hunting season or just picked up a new Henry Long Ranger? In this tutorial, 22Plinkster shows you the correct way to mount a scope for maximum accuracy. The scope featured in this video is a Leupold VX-3.
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I installed this optic on a crossman 760 air rifle.I have now shot the riffle around 500 times during target/plinking practice, and the czcams.com/users/postUgkxc4K63Fd5LglDMObu7-Bgapxp_ef0W8hE scope has done well.With this optic, I have neutralized around 30 pigeons that were invading one of my buildings.For my short range air rifle, I will continue to use this scope, but will be upgrading to a more powerful scope, when I buy a more powerful air rifle, in order to shoot at longer distance.For the money I have spent, this scope has truly been a great buy.
If you don't check eye relief before you tighten down you will have to loosen everything back again then adjust for relief & tighten back again. We all have made that mistake.
Just a lesson on loctite. Loctite does not dry like glue. Loctite hardens from a chemical reaction due to the lack of oxygen. When the bolt or screw is tightened the oxygen is squeezed from the thread causing a reaction that turns the loctite to plastic thus locking the bolt or screw in place. 👍🏼
Take this for what you will. There is no guarantee that your reticle is square with the horizontal top of your turret. You are better off to create a line on your wall that you can make perfectly vertical and line up the vertical line of your reticle with that. Then you are only making sure your firearm is square and checking your eye relief at the same time. Most of the time shooting a hundred yards or so it won't make a difference doing it your way. But shooting a long distance (like the rifle is designed to do) it can make a huge difference as i am sure you know. try it! Its something I learned from a rifle builder, long range shooter who worked for a scope manufacturer. He well over 50 yrs experience and builds for competition shooters.
Did I miss something? Like checking "Eye Relief", just before the final tightening . . .
Bingo!
My comment exactly
Eye relief was my concern when watching this install, but otherwise it was pretty good. The string and bob leveling method he mentioned was something I never thought of, but seems like a great option.
Agree, an excellent instructional video over-all. But, another comment on the locktite. The holes you are putting the locktite are not closed at the bottom. They are open into the slide area. If you put the locktite into the hole itself instead on onto the threads of the screw, it could go down and onto the bolt. If it dries on the bolt, it will be very difficult to then cycle the lever. The locktite can be easily removed from both the bolt and the inside of the slide chamber but scratching it with your fingernail, but not something you need to mess with if you just put the locktite on the threads.
Best scope mounting video I've seen! Well done.
But u never checked for eye relief
Thanks .22 Plinkster, great video and very informative!
im new to henry and new to non military rifles ands new to scopes, i thoutht it was much easier to install a scope.. never knew it was this precise.. very good. thank you.
Excellent presentation here... The principles he has shared here pretty much apply to any rifle, very well done sir...
Bill on the Hill...
I watched your video a few times. I just mounted my first scope. It turned out great. Thanks for the good info!
Awesome to see you in a video, that's the same way I mount my scopes been doing it for years, it's the best way in my opinion
Excellent tutorial. Happy New Year to the whole team at Henry! 🇺🇸 🎉
It’s weird to see Plinkster without sun glasses 🤪
Great video nonetheless!
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Excellent!!!!! Great video!! Thanks
Great job!!
Thanks Plinkster :)
Vertical string. Good idea great video.
Eye relief 1st. Great video!!!
Thanks for the video. What scope rings did you use ? 😊
I was surprised that the bolt of the rifle was not removed (or at least opened) prior to putting the locktite in the holes. Didn't anyone notice that some of it squeezed out when the base was put on?
I would have put the rings on the scope before putting them on the base, that way the front to rear position of the scope could be better adjusted.
We have to remember that this is the guy that doesn't count the rounds he fires, so after the last round he slams the rimfire firing pin down against the back of the barrel. He looks older now than he was in previous videos, so one would have thought he would have learned to not dryfire a rimfire. I guess not.
Very clear. Very nice. :)
Thank you for this video brother
You should always go from inside to outside so it doesn't warp
Did I miss where he went over setting the scope position for eye relief?
Thanks. The Henry Longer Ranger in 6.5 Creedmoor is my #1 Christmas item. I just can't find one anywhere.
I want one in 308. It doesn’t exist!
Anyone that wants firearms availability should remember remember the importance of voting all godless democrats out of office.
Yes it does exist.
I bought one in Va Beach in 2020
How do you adjust the eye relief during the scope mounting process?
its lovely
Great vid! Just looking at your two finger grip sighting that in, it's confusing to me that this isn't offered in a pistol grip version yet.
Superb 👍
This scope must be the "universal eye relief" model.😂
Where’s the source of the scope leveling kit you use. Thanx for the very imformative video
I just got a genry 3030 for a great deal today its the newer version was eondering if this rail and see through weaver sights would work
If I use a solid base a rail, I would use a credit card to level my scope. Just use the flat bottom part of your Scope and your scope rail and just slightly lift up the credit card, and you will see if there's a gap on either side, you just turn the scope until there's no gap.
For some reason I'm having feeding issues with Henry 4570 via the side gate. Rounds have gotten stuck on multiple occasions. Just needed to get that out. Question why use this mounting system over the Talley? It loos more simpler.
Question. Will Henry sell spare barrels for this gun?
I'd like to buy one of these lever guns, but 6.5mm (and 5.56mm to a lesser degree) are barrel burners.
Absolutely love the Long Ranger! Just wish it was chambered in 7mm-08!
Cool. I got my Henry long ranger yesterday and I setting my Arkin scope on tonight. Mine is the 223/556 Nato. That makes 10 Henry rifles now and fills my wish list on Henry's. These will be passed down to my nephew's boy as he knows they are to be passed down. We lost our only daughter a few years back without a warning.
Question. Why do you tighten and set the front ring to full 18 in/lb and then do the back? Just curious.
I have the cabela's bubble level set. It has the magnetic level thay you can sit on your rail and one on the top adjustment knob. I also get the eye relief right and even though I'm using the levels I put a plumb bob string just to make sure. OCD>>>???? Maybe.
That was a very good video. I'm not a new shooter and I've been around lever guns since I was 10 (I'm 66). I know Henry and all lever gun folks say to never break them down fully. I'm not sure why. I've done it when I think I've got sand in the action and never had any issue but I know where everything goes.
Do a vid on a Henry gun bench (for the DIY guys not a gun smith) tools and cleaners/oils/etc. I have the Wheeler wrench and all the tools I need. I use some Henry stuff along with hops Hop's. Don't be shy on what you need. I'd do it for a guy that has nothing. It would be cool and you do a great job. PS. How about sending me one of those cool shirts. Large would be fine....Ha.
Love Henry's and look forward to seeing your next vid.
I just noticed that I have the same vice as you do.
I just picked up a Henry 45 colt lever action it has the side load gate I think its model ho 12 gcl my dilemma is I want to use it for hunting deer and black bear but also still want to be able to use it for cowboy action shooting so I'm wondering if I can get away with putting one of those quick attach detach scopes so I can pop it on for hunting and pop it off for cas if it would work or not I don't see why it wouldn't work but don't know much about scopes I see a lot of lever actions that have a off center scope and I'm not exactly sure why they are that way I know a guy who spent a couple grand on a hunt and the guide dropped the guys gun cracked his scope and he never got to hunt he said had he had a quick detach scope and a spare he could a just changed it in the field but he was in the middle of no where in British Columbia Canada no other scope around miles he said color him unimpressed
Isn’t this just assuming that the turret is level with the reticle? That’s not always the case. I use a plumb line method which I think it more universally reliable versus hoping that the turret is actually level relative to the reticle.
What type of rings did you use? Thanks
Can any one tell me if you have ever or known anyone to hunt white tail or bear with the 45 colt? Will it do the job? What would I be looking at for yardage to make a kill?
What kind of scope rings are those?
Hmmm, I guess I'm always buying the wrong rings. I have never seen any with torque recommendations
I have a big boy in .44 mag. I want to use for deer hunting. I'd like to mount a Leupold scope, to support American manufacturers. Which scope do you recommend?
I have the steel version I put a leupold 1.5 x 4 works amazing for hunting.
Which weaver mount is that?
I see a lot of people with out the iron sights. To me a lever gun needs them. However ive been looking cant find any info anywhere. Do iron sights affect the barrel harmonics
That is a really good question! Maybe we'll have to get 22Plinkster to don his lab coat and find out.
@@HenryUSA id appreciate that. Im looking to buy a long ranger in 308. As I said im leaning to the iron sights just curious if I'd get better groups with out them. I'd like to set it up with see threw mounts so I can use iron in side of 100 yards and scope for the long shot. Its my plan to use it as a stalking gun so that set up would be nice. Any help with testing this would be appreciated
@@BuckIt00 Negative on the see-thru mounts.
@@richardgleason5953 actually I just got mine in I checked a set I had already. Marlin 336 fits it. Haven't mounted them yet but the holes line up. Should be dame as browning blr.
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where can i get those levels?
WHAT?! No links to the tool kits that you used? Bro, get some extra help for the channel, have an Amazon link for those thangs! That way, we get the correct tools, and we also help YOU out with the channel... =)
how can i tell if my mounted scope is level
They make little levels. They are cheap and about 1 1/2" long. Put the scope on and figure out the eye relief. Once that's done level the gun and level the scope by the turrets.
Locktite is for the threads. Using half a bottle like that just ruined the top of that rifle. You can see it squeeze out between the rifle top and the rail after the 3 minute mark…..
He didn’t ruin the rifle. Plenty of people apply blue locktite on the bottom of the rail for extra support. That little bit is only gonna help keep the base more secure. I don’t think it’s necessary to locktite anything but the threads as you said, but it doesn’t hurt anything.
@@Rydeman2 - It certainly hurt the appearance to see the squeeze out.
Yeah, you put it on the threads of the screw! Also…
The way he has the rifle right side up like that, it can drip into the receiver.
Surprised, that you didn't lap the rings
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Not a good idea to apply Loctite like that, where gravity can drip it into your receiver.
Best case scenario is flipping rifle upside down, or at the very least, sideways.
Stranglehold Outdoors
Never use loctite on any mounting or ring screws.. Loctite will lubricate the threads, and the torque specs will be more then what your tool says.. the tool is calibrated for steel on steel threads.. And loctite creates a gap between the threads and when it dry's you now have the gap.. And check ur eye relief before u tighten ring screws..
Too much loctite. There is no need for it if you torque properly in CLEAN threads.
waste of time with the creedmore
Lost me with the blue loctite.
U lost me on not checking eye relief right off the rip..I've mounted many myself and eye relieve is everything it must b rite or u did that all for nothing