Good idea to shoot the distances to confirm which I always do.
you shoot to confirm??
... "buh..., but it was boresighted at the store"
I may need to push the 160PTs a litte more to get 3000fps, try different primer. Will kill just fine at 2950fps though
You laugh but the first elk I saw on the ground was killed with a Browning 7mm RM with a scope that was bore-sighted at the gun store. The hunter had never shot the rifle. That was my first year big game hunting, 1982.
The lack of practice wiht the rifle and scope didn't matter as the hunter and the bull were standing under the canopy of the same pine tree when the shot was fired. The hunter couldn't see "anything but brown" through the scope so he used the rifle like a shotgun.
Luck happens.
