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Why would you not sight in at 100 yards?
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<blockquote data-quote="silverhair" data-source="post: 1631395" data-attributes="member: 109808"><p>From my research (I don't really have any experience), a rifle can be sighted based on the kill zone of the game being hunted. Seemes to me that the maximum point blank range needs to be taken into consideration. If an elk or deer has a kill zone 8 inches in diameter, a rifle can be sighted at the point where the bullet drops 4 inches. Any shot fired at a closer range will hit a little higher than the sighted range. The maximum distance for that sighted range will be where the bullet drops 4 inches below that point. A hunter / shooter would only need to put the cross hairs on the center of the kill zone to have an effective shot out to the point where the bullet drops out of the kill zone.</p><p></p><p>To me, this seems like an effective method of sighting. There is an additional consideration not included above. That relates to the velocity of the bullet and whether it is sufficient and carries enoough force at the "maximum" range to make a kill shot.</p><p></p><p>Am I explaining the idea correctly? Is this even a consideration when sighting in a rifle?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="silverhair, post: 1631395, member: 109808"] From my research (I don't really have any experience), a rifle can be sighted based on the kill zone of the game being hunted. Seemes to me that the maximum point blank range needs to be taken into consideration. If an elk or deer has a kill zone 8 inches in diameter, a rifle can be sighted at the point where the bullet drops 4 inches. Any shot fired at a closer range will hit a little higher than the sighted range. The maximum distance for that sighted range will be where the bullet drops 4 inches below that point. A hunter / shooter would only need to put the cross hairs on the center of the kill zone to have an effective shot out to the point where the bullet drops out of the kill zone. To me, this seems like an effective method of sighting. There is an additional consideration not included above. That relates to the velocity of the bullet and whether it is sufficient and carries enoough force at the "maximum" range to make a kill shot. Am I explaining the idea correctly? Is this even a consideration when sighting in a rifle? [/QUOTE]
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