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<blockquote data-quote="emp1953" data-source="post: 1727504" data-attributes="member: 71817"><p>In my Sig 940SHR in 270win I had a 200yd zero with 51.2gr 4350 and 150gr Nosler Accubonds. Last year I had a biiiiig buck step out in a bean field 605 yds away according to my Leopold range finder. I dialed in info into a ballistics program on my phone and it said that I needed to elevate 48 clicks. Unfortunately my Nikon Monarch bottomed out at 44 clicks. I figured that last 4 clicks equated to about 6 inches at 600 yds. Every indicator I had between me and the deer was that the wind was dead calm. Through my binoculars I could make out dragon flies buzzing around where the deer was and they were not fighting any breeze. So I put the horizontal crosshair right on the top of the deer's back and let er fly. Recoil had the scope cutting my eyebrow and I didn't see the deer go down. Walked to near where I thought it was and ranged the deer stand til I was at 605 yds and quickly found a heavy antlered 9 point that went 225lbs. Got back to the lodge. dialed the scope back down those 44 clicks and found the zero was back to dead on at 200yds. Good optics that you know and trust are every bit as important as the rifle. And of course a deer that hangs around long enough for you to figure all this stuff out. By the way the shot hit 8 inches below the line of the back and 1 inch right of point of aim. He had been taking a step forward or else I would have hit a shoulder/leg bone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="emp1953, post: 1727504, member: 71817"] In my Sig 940SHR in 270win I had a 200yd zero with 51.2gr 4350 and 150gr Nosler Accubonds. Last year I had a biiiiig buck step out in a bean field 605 yds away according to my Leopold range finder. I dialed in info into a ballistics program on my phone and it said that I needed to elevate 48 clicks. Unfortunately my Nikon Monarch bottomed out at 44 clicks. I figured that last 4 clicks equated to about 6 inches at 600 yds. Every indicator I had between me and the deer was that the wind was dead calm. Through my binoculars I could make out dragon flies buzzing around where the deer was and they were not fighting any breeze. So I put the horizontal crosshair right on the top of the deer's back and let er fly. Recoil had the scope cutting my eyebrow and I didn't see the deer go down. Walked to near where I thought it was and ranged the deer stand til I was at 605 yds and quickly found a heavy antlered 9 point that went 225lbs. Got back to the lodge. dialed the scope back down those 44 clicks and found the zero was back to dead on at 200yds. Good optics that you know and trust are every bit as important as the rifle. And of course a deer that hangs around long enough for you to figure all this stuff out. By the way the shot hit 8 inches below the line of the back and 1 inch right of point of aim. He had been taking a step forward or else I would have hit a shoulder/leg bone. [/QUOTE]
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