Originally Posted by jwp475
Originally Posted by stxhunter
Originally Posted by mud_bogger
Sam you just gotta get those dotz on the sideways crosshair an you'll be good to go.
turrets and a drop and windage chart taped to the stock of your rifle. reading the wind comes with pratice and a wind gauge sure comes in handy but the wind can be differant from point a to point b



Yep they will allow one to make long shots in windy condition


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Practice and the ballistic cards as well as the Kestrell 3500 pocket weather station allowed me to take the Doe at 777 yards with one shot in a 10 MPH quartering wind with a 180 grain TSX fired out of my 300 win


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Don't forget the suitcase with the little trolley wheels to haul all that junk around in... My LRF (acquired just a couple years ago) goes to 400 yards or so. If it doesn't register in strange country, I get closer...

I zero for 200 (more or less), and remember the 8, 3, 2 rule. For my rifles, most will drop 7-8 inches plus or minus at 300 yards, 3X that at 400, and double the last figure thereafter. I don't do varmits, so on big game, this works - "close enough IS good enough!"

Then I shoot the damned thing under 200, if I can manage it.

Basically then, what Eramicus said.

The only true cost of having a dog is its death.