Fonzie I'm in a similar situation and I'm also in Fort Worth. I would be interested to know who/where you are doing this with and how it goes. I'm looking for someone to site in 2 rifles. Elk Castle told me they bore sight then the rest is up to me. On Target's website says they will "assist" you but you really have to do it yourself. Alpine's website says they have "complete sight-in services" so I'm gonna give them a call. I'm kinda surprised it's so difficult to find a full-service place that will do this. These are my first rifles also also and I simply don't have the time or energy to figure it out right now. I can't justify taking off work to do it myself.

A rifle scope attached to a rifle is a relatively simple machine. It is not rocket surgery to learn how to sight in a scope.

I found a couple of youtube videos that dumbed it down for a guy like me. I didn't realize it was that quick and simple. Wonder why some places are quoting a week turnaround time.

It could be that they are busy, or maybe they want to wait for reasonable weather before heading out to the range.

Lots of bad weather going around right now. Here, there are four inches of snow and more on the way.

^^^ this

You can not zero a rifle when there is snow on the ground, the sunlight will refract differently and will result in a flawed zero. If it is raining outside you get a rainbow effect and actually end up zeroing on a arc that is directly inverse to a MOA arc. Thank god Charles was here with the facts.

Wow that's great info on weather I haven't come across yet but makes perfect sense. Because of the weather, I didn't work today so I called to see if the range where I bought my rifle was open. They said yes and they have one lane to sight rifles. But I only get 10 shots. I asked what if it takes more and they said then maybe they could help me and that it should only take me 3 shots. If I leave the rifle with them for them to do it, it's a 4 week turnaround time right now. Maybe that's why they limit it to 10 rounds so they can get their guy back on the lane to sight other rifles. So I went to another range and they were much more helpful. They have a 25 yard range, so to sight it at 100 yards, they measured the distance from the center of my scope to the center of my barrel. Then made calculations to draw out new lines on a target to get the equivalent of 100 yards. It made sense mathematically, but are there any pitfalls to this technique?

^^^ this

You can not zero a rifle when there is snow on the ground, the sunlight will refract differently and will result in a flawed zero. If it is raining outside you get a rainbow effect and actually end up zeroing on a arc that is directly inverse to a MOA arc. Thank god Charles was here with the facts.

Wow that's great info on weather I haven't come across yet but makes perfect sense. Because of the weather, I didn't work today so I called to see if the range where I bought my rifle was open. They said yes and they have one lane to sight rifles. But I only get 10 shots. I asked what if it takes more and they said then maybe they could help me and that it should only take me 3 shots. If I leave the rifle with them for them to do it, it's a 4 week turnaround time right now. Maybe that's why they limit it to 10 rounds so they can get their guy back on the lane to sight other rifles. So I went to another range and they were much more helpful. They have a 25 yard range, so to sight it at 100 yards, they measured the distance from the center of my scope to the center of my barrel. Then made calculations to draw out new lines on a target to get the equivalent of 100 yards. It made sense mathematically, but are there any pitfalls to this technique?

No big surprise that JG thinks it's really clever.

That's a deep knowledge bomb BigPig. Mind blown

It was joke. But sadly I've heard people argue that.

I've got a question.

If left handed bullets are used in a right handed bolt action, will the reverse torque wear out the rifling faster?

i only zero at the iFly facility so I can zero in updraft conditions.

Tff I hear you... Yes first rifle... I'd rather have someone who KNOWS what they are doing and me watch and learn...

The problem is everyone has a slightly different sight picture and body build.

For instance, my brother and I are both excellent marksman, but my shots were off one time with a rifle I let him sight in for me. It wasn't much, but enough to not make a perfect kill shot on a deer.