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trajectory/scope adjustment and reticle questions
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<blockquote data-quote="chowder" data-source="post: 466598" data-attributes="member: 29477"><p>After reading about as much as I can handle about the significance of hold over,BDC, mil dot, moa, and other reticles I must confess I'm still somewhat confused and thought I better see if I'm on the right track towards developing a well tuned rifle/scope/cartridge and shooter (me) package.</p><p></p><p>I'm in the process of developing a trajectory table for my Savage model 12 22-250 heavy / Mueller 8.5-25x50 combo shooting the 50 grain factory Remington Accutip cartridge. Using the Remington ballistics info for this cartridge as a rough starting point, I'm shooting 3 shot groups from 150 yards (my zero) out to 400 yards( NY hill farm country practical max yardage) and I'm building myself a table for clicks to get to each new 50 yard increment. This is kind of tedious but I'm practicing as I go and I am getting a feel for the way the parts of the picture are starting to work. Now this is a mil dot scope but for now I don't care because I'm not now or ever really likely to use it to range my targets (I've got a laser rangefinder) and at this point I don't think I want to mess around with the hold over techniques that the mil dots would enable me to use if I were so inclined. Despite the fact the scope has a mil dot reticle the turrets are labled "1/8" which I've assumed means 1/8 inch or 1/8 MOA @ 100 (since at 100 1 moa is pretty close to 1". so each click is 2/8 @200,4/8@ 300,etc. Since this bullet drops 10" between 300 and 400yds I'm sure hoping I wont run out of adjustment!</p><p>I realize that coping w/ wind is yet to come but is what I'm doing sound or should I be doing something much different?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chowder, post: 466598, member: 29477"] After reading about as much as I can handle about the significance of hold over,BDC, mil dot, moa, and other reticles I must confess I'm still somewhat confused and thought I better see if I'm on the right track towards developing a well tuned rifle/scope/cartridge and shooter (me) package. I'm in the process of developing a trajectory table for my Savage model 12 22-250 heavy / Mueller 8.5-25x50 combo shooting the 50 grain factory Remington Accutip cartridge. Using the Remington ballistics info for this cartridge as a rough starting point, I'm shooting 3 shot groups from 150 yards (my zero) out to 400 yards( NY hill farm country practical max yardage) and I'm building myself a table for clicks to get to each new 50 yard increment. This is kind of tedious but I'm practicing as I go and I am getting a feel for the way the parts of the picture are starting to work. Now this is a mil dot scope but for now I don't care because I'm not now or ever really likely to use it to range my targets (I've got a laser rangefinder) and at this point I don't think I want to mess around with the hold over techniques that the mil dots would enable me to use if I were so inclined. Despite the fact the scope has a mil dot reticle the turrets are labled "1/8" which I've assumed means 1/8 inch or 1/8 MOA @ 100 (since at 100 1 moa is pretty close to 1". so each click is 2/8 @200,4/8@ 300,etc. Since this bullet drops 10" between 300 and 400yds I'm sure hoping I wont run out of adjustment! I realize that coping w/ wind is yet to come but is what I'm doing sound or should I be doing something much different? [/QUOTE]
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