What is this?! I agree with you, smokepole.
Yes, you'll have that occasionally.
300 yards is a very good limit. Sight your rifle in at 200 yards and you are in good shape to 300 with a standard scope.
Not necessarily. I just ran the numbers for a 168 grain TSX out of a .308.
With a 200-yard zero it's 9 inches low at 300. Not what I would call in good shape at 300.
With those ballistics, if you cannot hit an elk at 300 yards, then you have not practiced at all. Elk have a large kill zone and that distance is not a tough shot, even with the .308.
With those ballistics I can hit targets much smaller than an elk, at ranges beyond 300 yards. It's not my shooting skills that are the subject here though.
It's your unqualified statement
"Sight your rifle in at 200 yards and you are in good shape to 300 with a standard scope," that's the topic, and like I pointed out above, it ain't necessarily so.
