BRNG525
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I was wondering if anyone out there has ever experienced a similar problem whiles shooting at longer distances like the one I am going to describe. I recently purchased a long range custom rifle and have a Nightforce scope installed with a custom turret as well as a custom range finder from G-7. This set-up shoots lights out, literally half minute groups out to 1000 yards if I do my part. While shooting recently at a 943 yard target with my gun dialed to 950 yards, the corrected yardage from my G-7 rangefinder, I was hitting the 30" x 20" steel plate about 9.5"" high. I thought this was a little wacky but continued to shoot and finished with quite a nice group at that distance, roughly an 8" group but all 9-9.5" high. I started dialing my scope dial down a click at a time, firing one shot at each click and finally when I got to the 925 yard marked on my dial I was literally touching the three inch bullseye on the plate. Several shots confirmed that this was in fact where my turret had to be set in order to hit that mark. This disturbed me so I checked the distance with two other range finders that I own to verify it was in fact 943 yards and they were all within a couple of yards of each other. I thought I should check it at mid range so I set up a target at 500 yards and found I was also shooting high, roughly 5.5", at that distance as well. I went back to the two hundred target which is what my gun was originally zeroed for and the group was right on. Well needless to say this was driving me crazy so I took a buddy out the next afternoon who had purchased the identical setup as mine so I could see if it was just me. His G-7 range finder found the target to be at the same range as mine and he dialed it up and proceeded to shoot lights out, dead nuts on for elevation, at least for a new shooter to the long range world. He then asked me if I wanted to shoot his rifle, of course I said yes and dropped one in the chamber, nice smooth squeeze on the trigger and bang, 9" high, three time in a row. Someone please tell me what I am doing wrong to cause this phenomena. I make sure to adjust my parallax before every shot but I am consistently hitting high at the longer ranges. This weekend I am having my buddy shoot my setup to see if he gets the same results with it as I do. I know it is something crazy that I am probably doing but I need someone to set me on the right path before I loose my mind.gun)
