Zero Stop and Elevation on Leupold Mark 5HD 3.6-18x44

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Hi everyone. I’ve been watching backfire for maybe a year or so and I’ve had firearms since I was about 16 and I’m now 36. In that time I’ve only had two guns with scopes on them and I never needed to mess with them because the .22 was on enough for plinking right away and my 30-06 was way too big for me when I was younger so I hated it and never shot it. Now I have my first mammal hunt this year- Pronghorn. I went with a lot of Jim’s suggestions while keeping in mind I wanted to build a rifle that could take care of basically any big game in North America. I ended up with a 7mm RemMag Browning X-Bolt Speed LR, a Leupold Mark 5HD 3.6-18x44((item number 176446)(Jim’s choice)), and Leupold’s X-Bolt mounts and rings made for the scope and matched to the rifle. Now finally my question that seems to be covered a lot on the internet but not so well is does the zero stop ever come from the factory at a preset much further away from 100 or 200yrds? I went to the range today and had a professional competition shooter help me mount and sight it in. He kept dialing down and down and down until there was no more down and he said we are unable to zero to 200(I know Jim likes 100). However, he did say that the zero stop was perfect at 500 years and I actually hit my first few shots with this set up at 500, 600, and 700 yards today. Crazy! Is there a way to open the top turret and move the zero stop maybe two full rotations down? Thanks!

Now I’m reading elsewhere to take the turret off and zero using a coin in the top exposed screw. Then replace the turret when you’re at zero. Is this correct? Why doesn’t the manual mention this?

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You picked a great scope. I don’t think you’ll have trouble getting it sighted once you can get past the zero stop.

If memory serves on that one, you loosen the allen keys around the top turret and then I think you can spin below the zero. The method you mentioned of removing the turret completely should also work.

Sorry, I have too many scopes and each one is a little different, but I think both of those methods would do the job.

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Thanks for the response. After talking to Leupold they confirmed that you remove the turret and using a flat head screw driver find your zero (gently you’ll feel the clicks continue down and there is an end somewhere down there and gently you will be stopped at its end but that’s probably way past 100 or 200 zero). Weird there’s no mention of this in the manual. Reinstall turret and now you have zero lock and -4 moa and three full revolutions up.

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I have a VX6 3-18 50. I also bought a 20 moa rail. Had the same issue and the first time to the range forgot the hex wrench. Second time lost it. I did what they said - saw it on youtube- took the cap completely off and set. After done put it back with it set to zero. I agree the manual does not cover this at all and was a bit confusing at first.