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Zero at 100 Yards and Leave Turret at 200 Yards for Hunting?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Matteson" data-source="post: 2024063" data-attributes="member: 101791"><p>I've never had much problem with elevation change. At the same time my shots are limited to 500yds max. Hunted from 1200' to 9,000' and killed animal at all elevation. I can see if you are shooting extend ranges there would be a great change in bullet path. I guess I do it in my mind and adjust. I started shooting back in the day when were just about only fix power scopes. I have watch the scope make major improvements over the years, and to the good. I am going to get a Nightforce 3 x 15 scope here shortly for a rifle that I am having built(6 months or so). So I will have to learn a new system. I expect it will be interesting. Again I use rifles that achieve about the same velocity, that turns into very close to the same bullet path for each rifle. I know what I need to do to adjust for ranges out to 500yds. All I am doing is pointing out what I do, and how I arrived at that, trying to help others. It may or may not help. With my rifles a 1.1 elevation at a 100yds is very close to zero at 200yds, 300yds about 5.5" low, and at 500yds is about 31" low. Out 300yds I don't have to adjust at all, and I know to elevate my rifle to shot those additional yardages. The other is I use duplex cross hairs in my scopes and where to to adjust for the different distances. That has made it a whole easier is range finders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Matteson, post: 2024063, member: 101791"] I've never had much problem with elevation change. At the same time my shots are limited to 500yds max. Hunted from 1200' to 9,000' and killed animal at all elevation. I can see if you are shooting extend ranges there would be a great change in bullet path. I guess I do it in my mind and adjust. I started shooting back in the day when were just about only fix power scopes. I have watch the scope make major improvements over the years, and to the good. I am going to get a Nightforce 3 x 15 scope here shortly for a rifle that I am having built(6 months or so). So I will have to learn a new system. I expect it will be interesting. Again I use rifles that achieve about the same velocity, that turns into very close to the same bullet path for each rifle. I know what I need to do to adjust for ranges out to 500yds. All I am doing is pointing out what I do, and how I arrived at that, trying to help others. It may or may not help. With my rifles a 1.1 elevation at a 100yds is very close to zero at 200yds, 300yds about 5.5" low, and at 500yds is about 31" low. Out 300yds I don't have to adjust at all, and I know to elevate my rifle to shot those additional yardages. The other is I use duplex cross hairs in my scopes and where to to adjust for the different distances. That has made it a whole easier is range finders. [/QUOTE]
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