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<blockquote data-quote="Kennibear" data-source="post: 894681" data-attributes="member: 51650"><p>442jonez</p><p></p><p>If you change your perspective it may help you understand this concept better.</p><p></p><p>Don't think, "that's 880 yards" but more of, "that's 1 1/4 minute of angle".</p><p></p><p>Case #1: Middle son @ age 15 has a glass bedded 22 Mag Rimfire w/ 3-9 $40 Banner High Powered Rifle scope. Paralax is fixed @ 100 yards and the rifle prefers Federal ammo over any thing else. Shoots Federals into 5/8" @ 75 yards every round, 3 shots or 50 shots. This is not uncommon with tweaked 22Mag RF's. One Spring day about 5 - 6 miles south of Boise in the desert he shoots up two boxes and a partial at ground squirrels none of the shots less than 100yds (zero range) nor more than 125 yards. Those squirrels have a "danger" zone of about 75 yards where they disappear at the sight of hunters. He makes every shot while they don't alarm.</p><p>He never missed, not once in 100+ shots. One shot, one hit. But that is not surprising to the average hunter because it is 100 yards. The Gopher presents about 1 1/4" square in Target area.</p><p></p><p>Conservatively an Elk presents a target of about 16" square, some say more some say less but we'll run 16 square for now. 16 / 1.25 = 12.8. 12.8 X 100 = 1280. 16" is the Elk, 1.25" is the gopher, 12.8 is how many time larger the Elk is than the gopher and 1280 yards is 12.8 times the range my son hit every one of those 100+ gophers. (Hell yes I'm a proud Papa!) </p><p></p><p>With laser range finders and quality field ballistic computers and programs first round hit have become quite regular. And by ordinary folks not just a small bunch of target masters. Looking at an Elk at 1200+ yards and a gopher at 100 and both appear to be the same size. But we don't hesitate to take a crack at the gopher.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps!</p><p></p><p>KB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kennibear, post: 894681, member: 51650"] 442jonez If you change your perspective it may help you understand this concept better. Don't think, "that's 880 yards" but more of, "that's 1 1/4 minute of angle". Case #1: Middle son @ age 15 has a glass bedded 22 Mag Rimfire w/ 3-9 $40 Banner High Powered Rifle scope. Paralax is fixed @ 100 yards and the rifle prefers Federal ammo over any thing else. Shoots Federals into 5/8" @ 75 yards every round, 3 shots or 50 shots. This is not uncommon with tweaked 22Mag RF's. One Spring day about 5 - 6 miles south of Boise in the desert he shoots up two boxes and a partial at ground squirrels none of the shots less than 100yds (zero range) nor more than 125 yards. Those squirrels have a "danger" zone of about 75 yards where they disappear at the sight of hunters. He makes every shot while they don't alarm. He never missed, not once in 100+ shots. One shot, one hit. But that is not surprising to the average hunter because it is 100 yards. The Gopher presents about 1 1/4" square in Target area. Conservatively an Elk presents a target of about 16" square, some say more some say less but we'll run 16 square for now. 16 / 1.25 = 12.8. 12.8 X 100 = 1280. 16" is the Elk, 1.25" is the gopher, 12.8 is how many time larger the Elk is than the gopher and 1280 yards is 12.8 times the range my son hit every one of those 100+ gophers. (Hell yes I'm a proud Papa!) With laser range finders and quality field ballistic computers and programs first round hit have become quite regular. And by ordinary folks not just a small bunch of target masters. Looking at an Elk at 1200+ yards and a gopher at 100 and both appear to be the same size. But we don't hesitate to take a crack at the gopher. Hope this helps! KB [/QUOTE]
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