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Exactly why I zero at 300. That way I don't have to dial anything until after 400+ yards.If you're going to dial yardage...100 yards.
Steve
Exactly why I zero at 300. That way I don't have to dial anything until after 400+ yards.If you're going to dial yardage...100 yards.
I gotta jump in here and say that I believe most average 40 shot per year shooters may think that they can deliver the goods on a long shot, but the reality is that long range shooting is a discipline, much like racing, or maybe even one of the martial arts. It can be called a discipline because it TAKES discipline. I shoot many more rounds than anyone I personally know. I have always wanted to shoot to a mile, just something I thought would be fun. Built myself a rifle which I thought would get it done, and started trying to learn the ins and outs of long range shooting. Wow. I didn't know ANYTHING about shooting, or ballistics. Talk about humbling. I would jump at a chance to shoot with someone who knows more than me. Just saying. Thanks for listening.I agree, but my point...which isn't always readily apperent, is that if they can't trust the dope to have a correct 300 yard zero, then they have no buisnes shooting at long range. As you correctly stated...this is a long range hunting sight. and we should be able to trust our dope at ANY distance.
On the other hand , I always have advocated actual SHOOTING to confirm dope at ANY distance before you attempt taking game, and EVERYONE here should have done actual testing at various ranges to test their dope.
I have quite a few friends who shoot one test target a year at 100, 200, or whatever, and, because they are shooting some high dollar store bought "long range"gun and scope that they are "long range hunters". And trust me, Around here, if someone thinks of them self as a LR shooter, I am the first one they tell!! And, every single one of them says that we should go out and do some shooting, which, as usuall, I'm all up to do. None of them ever call back.
I see this "what distance" topic come up from time to time, and I think it is a GOOD topic......with no correct answer, IMO.
Have a great day,
Tod
Not sure if I understand. You confirmed your drops without shooting at distance?The way I handled my rifles leading up to the Aoudad hunt:
Zero both at 300yds.
Too a 7' tall section of card board (hard to find a piece this long, still have it too).
I put the center of a 6" diamond one foot down from the top.
Put another 6" diamond at 48" down.
One last 6" diamond at 54".
That is where the two rifles were supposed to drop at 600 yards with a 300 yard zero.
Nice I confirmed they hit where expected, I bagged the rifles up real solid and dialed them down to POI. Checked dials...spot on, so I'm pretty sure the scopes are tracking properly and my dope was GTG for the hunt.
No trusting the Millet scope to track I set it back to 300 yards and made notes on a picture of the reticle of 600yds, 500yds and 400yds.
But the SWFA on the 300wm I did dial up two possible shots. One at 599 yards and one at 652 yards. Didn't take either one, 599 shot would be up the rump head on wing. 652 shot was wind; 10mph at 90 degrees with two ridges between me and the target ram. I only had about 10 feet of clearance over one and the other less that 5 feet. So I passed both shots!
Sounds to me like you ighted in high at 100 yards for a theoretical 200y zero and then pluged those numbers into a balistics program that should have you pretty close out to 500y.Bryan Litz recommends 100 yard zero to reduce environmental errors. Took me a while to come around but now I agree.
Although I zero at 100 so my POI is about 1.3" high, so POI at 200 is dead on. It lets me shoot without dialing anywhere within about 250 yards, and when I'm hunting in the timber my POI is also zeroed somewhere between 30-50 yards.
Of course I plug the vertical offset into my shooting app so everything is accounted for when I dial.
Sounds like something is loose.Not trying to hijack the thread but I have a question my POI is way off on cold bore
My previous set up was my Remington 700 Woodstock Chamber in 280 i had a 4-12x50 Nikon buckmaster scope with high rings on dovetail bases and I have shot game out to 350 yards
since then I added a 20moa one piece base and 30mm X high rings and a nightforce shv 5-20x56 scope shot the gun to a 1" high zero but now every time I take the gun out to shoot my first round is 11 low but if I shoot 2 more shoots the gun is 1" high I'll let the gun cool 15mins and then shoot again and same issue any help would be appreciated I put a aluminum bedded stock on the gun now but have not shot it yet