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Zero at 100 Yards and Leave Turret at 200 Yards for Hunting?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lobber" data-source="post: 2024003" data-attributes="member: 95131"><p>Thank you for the well-thought out and respectful response! Perhaps the gap in earlier conversation is that I do not hunt in drastically different DA than where I shoot at the range, most of the time. And when I do, I do check zero in that environment before hunting. One of my recent harvests was a mature bull elk at 650 yds, which equated to an 11.25-minute adjustment from my 200 zero with that rifle. Made a perfect shot and the bull didn't take a step. Now, had I had a 100-yd zero, that would have added an additional 1.5 minute adjustment... not really a big deal, but again, preference. Zeroed the rifle at about 6000' and shot the bull around 8000' elevation. Perhaps DA would have caused significant deviation well beyond that range, but I haven't personally experienced it.. If I had sighted in at sea level, and come up to 8000' I would expect to see some deviation and perhaps higher error with a 200-yd zero based on your explanation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lobber, post: 2024003, member: 95131"] Thank you for the well-thought out and respectful response! Perhaps the gap in earlier conversation is that I do not hunt in drastically different DA than where I shoot at the range, most of the time. And when I do, I do check zero in that environment before hunting. One of my recent harvests was a mature bull elk at 650 yds, which equated to an 11.25-minute adjustment from my 200 zero with that rifle. Made a perfect shot and the bull didn't take a step. Now, had I had a 100-yd zero, that would have added an additional 1.5 minute adjustment... not really a big deal, but again, preference. Zeroed the rifle at about 6000' and shot the bull around 8000' elevation. Perhaps DA would have caused significant deviation well beyond that range, but I haven't personally experienced it.. If I had sighted in at sea level, and come up to 8000' I would expect to see some deviation and perhaps higher error with a 200-yd zero based on your explanation. [/QUOTE]
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