Lyman Super Targetspot Advice/Help

[CptEnglehorn]

Evening folks, ill be soon taking delivery of a lyman super targetspot, this will be my first time mounting a rifle scope and dialing it in, it is going on a 1903A1 USMC clone, does anyone know where I might be able to find a manual, or is anyone familiar with the use of the scope. Also, would the scope sustain damage/would there be ill effects if not brought back into battery after every shot. Many thanks for the assistance

[Hip's Ax]

Never seen a manual. Make sure the clicks are free and easy, the elevation and windage adjustments can get gummed up and if you force them they can fail. Don't over tighten the mount thumbscrews, finger tight then a little more with something appropriate in the slot. Before you mount the scope put a clean hanky (white) over the front lens, go outside and point the scope up to the sky, see how sharp the cross hair is. Adjust the eye piece if the cross hair is not in focus. Mount the scope and set the front objective to the distance your target is. See if the target is in focus, if not turn the bell until the target is nice and sharp, write down the setting. Put the rifle in a clamp (cleaning cradle etc) and pull the bolt out. Point the rifle and clamp it so that the target bullseye is centered in the barrel, now with out disturbing the clamp or bench, look through the scope and see where the crosshairs are, turn the knobs to put the corsshair in the middle of the bull. This will get you on paper right away, I'll assume you will be shooting at 100 yards or less. If your target is 300 or 600 yards away you will have to elevate to account for bullet drop, if you are at 50 or 100 yards you will be on paper without any extra elevation. I see you have no recoil spring and are worried about remembering to pull the scope back, it is best to pull it back (and give the scope a soft clockwise twist) to repeat the position of the scope for every shot. The old guys I shoot with told be they would forget to pull it back sometimes and never really noticed any difference until the scope was so far forward that they could not see through it (beyond eye relief). Not really anyway the scope can get damaged by not remembering to pull it back, frankly that forward motion is your friend, if the scope did not move forward under recoil you might get a black eye, eye relief on these scopes is quite short. When you actually go to shoot the rifle for group, put the crosshair in the center of the target then move your head around a little bit, if the crosshair does not move around the target you have the parallax set right, if it moves you must adjust the front bell until it is right. Thats about all I can think of right now. Enjoy, I wish I had a rifle like that. :)

[Brer Rabbit]

Send me your e-mail and I will send you a copy of the manual. Hope you find it useful. It is always good to have the manual on hand.

Brer Rabbit
dbriere745@aol.com

[CptEnglehorn]

Many thanks for the help and advice, waited a while to get this rifle, chuckindenver builds them, couldnt be happier with it.

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[CptEnglehorn]

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[Hip's Ax]

Wow!! LOVELY!!!!