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Any of you use a 100 yard zero for 22 LR rifles ?

What would you consider an acceptable MOA at 100 yards? 2” more, or less?

Most of my 22’s are zero’d at 100. I have a couple rim rifles with a 50 yard zero.

I primarily shoot CCI 40g Mini Mag ammo. Seems across the battery of rimfire rifles I have, mini mags showed the most consistent.

I have had strange plinking days, where a rifle will show 1.5” MOA all day long. Next time I take the same rifle out, it’s printing like I have a turkey choke on it....Don’t know why. Any idea ?

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No, I dont use a 100 yard zero.

I haven't done a lot of 100 yard 22LR work, but I've done enough to know that trying to zero a new scope at that range in a breeze will piss off a pope.

True dat...LOL

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25 yard zero. Gather dope to 200. Usually 25 moa to get to 200 yards with a 25 yard zero

Have never zero'ed a .22 at 100 yards. I only shoot sub-sonics in suppressed .22. Typically zero'ed at 25-30 yards. Squirrel hunting range.

I zero mine at 35 yds, that's good for early season squirrel hunting. When the leaves fall, I'll zero at 50 yds.

22 silhouette matches have targets at 40 meters, 60 meters, 77 meters, and 100 meters. In my experience with match rifles, shooters would puke with 2 inches at 109 yards, pretty Ok with 1.5 inches, and lottery winners if under an inch. Really with wind, things happen. Light changes, changes image perception, and groups move. Naturally these rough numbers are for bench work prior to offhand matches.

Typical zero at 40M, add 1.5-2 moa at 60, then add another 2 moa or so, then add 4 moa. 0, 2, 4 8. Maybe up to 10, depends on the mounts.

Maybe a 25 yard zero at the most.

Ballpark...

This is a dumb question.

Match ammo at 1050 or so you will have to add additional moa

Thanks, Lap

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About the only thing I shoot with my .22s is grouse 50 yd zero seems the best trying a few. Seems I can't sneak up on them much closer and from about 15 yds to 60yds POI is within kill zone aiming at the base of the neck on a chicken.j Except for the ones I miss. lol

You're welcome Beave!

Yeah for field practice . Saves the wallet . Get a twenty five or fifty yd zero then move out to hundred . The wind will show up in your groups a bit more at 100 , but CZ super exclusive and wolf ammo it will get me an inch five shot group , sometimes a good bit better , wind will open you up to 1 1/2”-2” groups . I don’t bother with wind flags as I use it to shoot field positions I might encounter deer hunting .
I put two vertical strings of paper plates , three n each string .
I start at a 100 standing , five shots right handed , five left handed , then same setting and same prone ,
Briskly walk in about 20 yds and repeat until I close the gap to the final twenty .
I should do this year round but usually don’t start till end of August or so .
When I get to the plates I mark them all 1 , then two and so on , and use top plates for standing , middle for settin , and bottom for prone .
After a few days a week you’ll see a better consistency .
Sometimes I wonder if it is actually helping , helping or not , shooting is always fun .
Shoot year round but mostly from a bench testing loads , always a bullet I haven’t tried in a gun .
Kenneth

10-22 for the kids is sighted at 75 yds with a Bushnell Trophy 4-12x40.

Dad's old 572 is sighted at 100 yds with an old 3-9x32 Simmons, and it will do for heart shots on a feral tom cat at that range. Or at least it would six years ago when I last grabbed it for the task.

Just out of High School, I bought a Winchester 190. I kept it zeroed at 100 yds, and put several bricks of ammo through Campbell's Soup cans at that range the summer of '76.

For 50 years, I have found it as easy to hold under at midrange as it is to hold over at extended range.

Sight mine in at 50 yards for shooting turtles in the Stock Tank.

22 mag gets the 100 yard sight in.

I’ve always shot mine in at 35 yards.
I chose that distance because my .22s LRs are mainly used for plinking and head shooting squirrels for the pot. I can expect to take out a tree rat out to about 50, beyond that I abstain from shooting.
The .22 Magnum is shot in at 50. It’s used for keeping varmints outta my vegetables and squirrels as well. I’ve killed a couple groundhogs at 100 yards and change with it. Also one that was educationally challenged, and didn’t figure out that the 2 dust spurts he saw were Bullet strikes! The third time was the charm and I paced it out at around 250 yards!
The range at our gun club has a slate bank behind the target stand at 100 yards. When I’m working up a hand load I let the gun cool down between groups.
At that distance a couple clay birds and a 6.5 inch .22 revolver are fun ways to pass the time.
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20 = 50 with mine. SV

The 10/22 zeroed at 50 w/ HVHP