I go through one way to zero your AK-74 (and variant) rifle. I suggest either doing it the way I do in the video or just using the battle setting and zeroing point of aim=point of impact.
Basic front sight adjustments:
If you want to move the group to the right-----move the front sight left. If you want to move the group to the left----move the front sight right. If you want to lower your group, raise the front sight (counter clockwise) If you want to raise your group, lower the front sight (clockwise)
Ballistics numbers of the 7N6 round:
Bullet weight - 3.42 grams (53gr) initial velocity, according to the manufacturer - 870 m / sec (2854 ft/s) Ballistic coefficient: 0.282
Below is some data taken from a 1980s Russin AK74 manual:
Velocity in ft/sec Distance in meters 0 = 2970 (note this is for the particular 5.45x39 round in use at the time) 100 = 2673 200 = 2340 300 = 2056 400 = 1792 500 = 1508 600 = 1310
Bullet drop in inches Zero at 100 meters (sight set at 1) 50m = 0 100m = 0 150m = -1.2 200m = -3.9
Zero at 200 meters (sight set at 2) 50m = 1.2 100m = 2 150m = 2 200m = 0 250m = -3.9 300m = -9.8
Zero at 300 meters (sight set at 3) 50m = 2.4 100m = 5.1 150m = 6.7 200m = 6.3 250m = 4.3 300m = 0 350m = -6.7 400m = -16.9
Zero at 400 meters (sight set at 4) 50m = 4.3 100m = 9.4 150m = 13 200m = 15 250m = 14.6 300m = 12.6 350m = 7.9 400m = 0 450m = -10.6 500m = -25.6
Zero at 500 meters (sight set at 5) 50m = 7.1 100m =14.6 150m = 20.9 200m = 25.2 250m = 27.6 300m = 28.0 350m = 25.6 400m = 20.5 450m = 12.2 500m = 0 550m = -16.5 600m = -38.6
Today's video is how to zero your AK-74 chambered in 5.45. There's two very
common ways to do it. One is the way we're gonna do today and the other way
is to just set your rear sight at the battle battle setting and zero at 50
meters and go from there. That's not quite as fun as what we're gonna do today.
Today we're gonna do the other way. We're gonna zero at 25 meters then confirm and
adjust at 100 meters which is the way, at least from my understanding, that the
Russians do it. So we're gonna go ahead and put a couple shots here on the
target which is set up 25 meters downrange. We'll show you what we get and
go from there. So here's our target downrange. What we saw here is we're off
to the right a little bit and we're high. So if you go ahead and look at this
handy-dandy how to zero an AK sheet, which you don't need but I put it out
here just so you guys could see it and see how it works. It's telling us to push
the front sight to the right, which is what we're gonna do just slightly here
because we're not too far off. And also we're gonna go ahead and turn
the front sight in this direction. As you can see the arrow. So here's our front
sight. We're gonna turn it in the direction with the AK tool that it
described. What you're actually doing is raising that front sight which will go
ahead and move your shots down. We'll give it a couple turns. We were pretty
high there. That was a terrible group by the way. And then we're also gonna push
the front sight to the right. So as you guys can see here this tool, for those of
you guys that aren't familiar with it, you're gonna line this part up with this
piece right here on the barrel and push it that way on the sight I should say. So
go ahead and line them up and just push it on through. Time for group number two.
Hopefully this one's a little bit better. Check it out. As you guys can see we're
not doing so hot today. Here's one shot. Here's another shot. As you can see we
looks like we over corrected a little bit for the windage elevation. And in
terms of the elevation we're still a little bit high. So we're
gonna bring that down again just like we did last time and just push that front
sight a little bit slightly to the left. We're gonna go ahead and turn that front
sight again. Again you're really actually raising it and that lowers the impact. So
we're gonna turn it a little bit and go ahead and push that front sight back
over a little bit to the left because we're hitting that way. And we'll shoot
that group. My guess is that'll probably do it. Hopefully I'll tighten it up as
well. Let's see. Well it looks like we overcorrected again but we got the
elevation pretty good. What I'm gonna do now is actually I'm gonna back up to a
hundred meters and verify that because these little things right here that
could just be shooter error or not we don't really know are really gonna show
themselves out at a hundred meters. So we're gonna back it up and take those
shots and do the confirmation of this zero. Let's see what we get. Alright y'all.
So you see a target there. It's pretty much exactly what I was expecting. The
reason is obviously we're shooting before at 25 meters and this is at a
hundred meters. So where the paths of those that round intersects isn't
exactly the same. You're generally gonna be a little bit high at a hundred meters.
It's still a little bit to the right which is what we were shooting last time.
So what I'm gonna do there go ahead raise that front sight up a little bit
to compensate for the elevation and go ahead and move the front sight over to
the right as well and that'll be it. We'll have a zeroed rifle but again the
way we're zeroing today is the way where you set it at a hundred hundred meters
on your rear sight and then you use your ladder all the way through. If you're not
gonna do that you want one zero I suggest using the 50 meter zero with
your AK-74s. We'll put some numbers in the bottom as well that I'll explain
your trajectories at different distances and how far over and how far under you're
gonna be. But either way works both ways work well you just need to know your
zero and know what your bullets gonna do because your bullets not gonna lie. But
um as always guys if you have any questions comments concerns thoughts
about the video questions about what your guns doing and why it's doing it go
ahead feel free to post them here over at my Facebook page I'll do my best to
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appreciate it and we'll see you in the next video
