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For ELR what constitutes a good zero?
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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 2473110" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>Taking a 100 yard zero and actually having something good is difficult, I spend little time on the 100 yard zero because it's the worst range you'll shoot, not settled down, parallax issues all make that 100 yards zero change. I use 300 yards to confirm and dial in my 100 yard because at 300 the velocity or BC won't show up in a meaningful way but a 100 yard zero being of will show big so I basically zero at 300 and reverse the ballistics back to 100 yards and input the correction in app not even change my physical zero cause it's close enough for hunting. I then run it out to 1000+ yards single shot on paper as fast as I can all at the same time dialing so I'm as close to the same condition as possible. So after my zero is tuned it's one round at 300, 600 maybe 800 and then at 1000 and maybe 1500 in as fast a time as I can send it while shooting solid, this gets me dial the quickest, I may tune velocity a few feet per second by 1000 but I wouldn't be looking at form factor or BC till beyond a 1000 and even then it would be moderate if everything is right. By the time I'm tuning ballistics I'm well beyond group shooting, I'm in the mode that if the first round isn't on then a group isn't going to do anything but waste bullets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 2473110, member: 13632"] Taking a 100 yard zero and actually having something good is difficult, I spend little time on the 100 yard zero because it's the worst range you'll shoot, not settled down, parallax issues all make that 100 yards zero change. I use 300 yards to confirm and dial in my 100 yard because at 300 the velocity or BC won't show up in a meaningful way but a 100 yard zero being of will show big so I basically zero at 300 and reverse the ballistics back to 100 yards and input the correction in app not even change my physical zero cause it's close enough for hunting. I then run it out to 1000+ yards single shot on paper as fast as I can all at the same time dialing so I'm as close to the same condition as possible. So after my zero is tuned it's one round at 300, 600 maybe 800 and then at 1000 and maybe 1500 in as fast a time as I can send it while shooting solid, this gets me dial the quickest, I may tune velocity a few feet per second by 1000 but I wouldn't be looking at form factor or BC till beyond a 1000 and even then it would be moderate if everything is right. By the time I'm tuning ballistics I'm well beyond group shooting, I'm in the mode that if the first round isn't on then a group isn't going to do anything but waste bullets. [/QUOTE]
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