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<blockquote data-quote="Jon Bischof" data-source="post: 2003733" data-attributes="member: 879"><p>georgiaoutlaw, If you zeroed at 50 yards (?), I'm not surprised that you couldn't make a 200 yard shot. If you don't mind a suggestion from a guy who has killed a whole bunch of deer at 200 yards (there was a deer trail 200 yards from my stand where I nixed a whole bunch of deer in the corner of the cut-over I used to hunt); I would suggest that you zero your 6.5 to shoot 1.5" high at 100 yards so that you could make a 200 yard shot. Or, more precisely, you could use a scope reticle with holdovers in the reticle. I use a MIL scope so that I can use the second stadia mark for 200 yard shots. Here's what I get at 200 yd with acubond bullets from ammo Inc cartridges using the second stadia of Mark on a mill scope. Of course I zeroed it at 200 yd to get that. This is not my best group at 200 yards with my 6.5 Creedmoor, but at least you can see that it is zeroed well enough at 200 to drop a deer. If you have a scope with crosshairs but no holdovers, you can just zero at 200, and you won't be so high at 100 that you can't still just hold dead on. But zeroing at 50 yards is for .22 Long Rifle. I know, I am the self-proclaimed best squirrel hunter in Arkansas. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> [ATTACH=full]220409[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jon Bischof, post: 2003733, member: 879"] georgiaoutlaw, If you zeroed at 50 yards (?), I'm not surprised that you couldn't make a 200 yard shot. If you don't mind a suggestion from a guy who has killed a whole bunch of deer at 200 yards (there was a deer trail 200 yards from my stand where I nixed a whole bunch of deer in the corner of the cut-over I used to hunt); I would suggest that you zero your 6.5 to shoot 1.5" high at 100 yards so that you could make a 200 yard shot. Or, more precisely, you could use a scope reticle with holdovers in the reticle. I use a MIL scope so that I can use the second stadia mark for 200 yard shots. Here's what I get at 200 yd with acubond bullets from ammo Inc cartridges using the second stadia of Mark on a mill scope. Of course I zeroed it at 200 yd to get that. This is not my best group at 200 yards with my 6.5 Creedmoor, but at least you can see that it is zeroed well enough at 200 to drop a deer. If you have a scope with crosshairs but no holdovers, you can just zero at 200, and you won't be so high at 100 that you can't still just hold dead on. But zeroing at 50 yards is for .22 Long Rifle. I know, I am the self-proclaimed best squirrel hunter in Arkansas. 🤣 [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_20200925_204329958.jpg"]220409[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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