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Posted: 6/5/2006 6:27:24 PM EDT
I’ve been having some elevation issues with my EOTech model 512 revF, I have it mounted directly on top of my receiver. When I took it out of the box I gave it 4-5 clicks down because it shot about a foot high at 100 yards. This time it was doing the same thing so I clicked it down at least 10 times and still a foot high at 100 yards, what’s the problem with my EOTech? Or is it something I’m doing wrong? 
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I can't say for sure what your problem is but I had to adjust mine quite a bit out of the box. I initially just adjusted it at home to co-witness with my irons and then when I got out to the range I only had to make a few minor adjustments from there.......but it took quite a few rotations to get the dot to co-witness the irons. Good luck and sorry I didn't answer your question.....I'm sure people with more knowledge than I will chime in soon. 
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You don't know yet your clicking away? Did you read the instructions? Page 5 of the manual indicates each click os 0.5 MOA. So at 100y, if the sight was off by a foot (I'll assume you measured) then you would have needed 24 clicks to bring it to zero. |
This is probably the easiest way to get the sight close to zero. Should only need some fine tuning at the range. Your opens are zeroed, right? |
| When I got my eotech it was shooting very off center so I zeroed it. But it did not stay zeroed because I did not have it torqued down enough (read manual before doing such) and it would shift when the gun recoiled. I tightened it up with a torque wrench and it kept its zero. |
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I was also bothered by the number of clicks that it took to zero because I never had to adjust a scope this much but then I visited EoTech's web site and read their FAQ. The EoTech has 80 MOA adjustment in both axis (up & down, right & left). Each click is .5 MOA so that means it has 160 clicks in each plane. That is a lot more than my scopes. Having to adjust it 20-30 clicks isn't as much out of 160. I am not sure what EoTech use as a basis for their initial setting but it is consistent. I have a model 551 and a 552 and they both had to be adjusted nearly the same amount of clicks for zero |
Uh, no. If he's off 12" at 100 yards than he should only be off 3" at 25. Same amount of clicks. |
Same here. |
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I know nothing about Eotechs, although I'm preparing to purchase one, but my Aimpoint needed a lot of vertical adjustment when I installed it - until I discovered the 1/4, 1/2, and full spacers. The 1/4 spacer got me back to "zero" in the center part of the scope, rather than in the top-half. flcracker |
EOTech adjusts every sight on a colimator at the factory before packing them in a box. They are adjusted to a point in the mid-range of their vertical and horizontal travel. There is plenty of adjustment range in any direction to zero the sight regardless of the weapon you mount it on. A few weeks ago, I mounted an EOTech on a H&K UMP and it was dead nuts zero at 25 meters without having to make any adjustment. However, one time I have mounted EOTechs on eight Diemaco C7s and found that they all were hitting about 1 meter high at 100 meters and needed considerable adjustment in elevation to bring them down on the target. A lot has to do with the weapon you mount it on. All guns shoot to a different point of aim. |
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