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Beaver10,
Read this article based on the topic of wind effect on accurate shooting.
Taught me that I had been wasting a lot of time ''fine tuning'' ammo plus quite a bit more.


https://precisionrifleblog.com/2013...house-lessons-in-extreme-rifle-accuracy/

Will do...Thx, mike

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that was interesting

Weather?

I do more or less the same, except I have one of those ballistic plex reticles that all I need to do is go p in increments to 75.100, 125 yds. With the 22 Mag I do the same except I use 100, 125 & 150. Works great.

Solid comments and recommendations by all.

Yeah, that was mentioned. I don’t like plinking with a 22 in foul weather - rain or wind. I checked the two elevation levels where I’ve shot. One is at sea level, the other 525’ft.

Not sure if that would make a difference with a 22 LR ~ it doesn’t change anything @ 100 yards with a center fire.

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Agreed.

Good read.

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This thread has taken an absolutely predictable path, a couple of paths actually.

Those who are into ultimate precision describe the equipment and techniques employed by benchresters to achieve gilt edge accuracy. No holds or $$ barred.

Then the hunters chime in that they can kill critters all day long with grandpa's rifle and cheap ammo.

Neither is wrong or right, just completely different.

Hopefully, out of this discussion, the OP can glean the info he was seeking.

Beaver10;
Top of the morning to you again sir, I hope it's a tad warmer in your part of the world - we're a frosty -11°C this morning and we've got enough snow that the tractor will be fired up later on to plow.

Thanks to ol mike for that article as it is very interesting to me for sure, even though I'll likely never get into bench rest shooting out here.

The techniques from the bench though I believe can and do translate from rimfire to centerfire which is one reason I enjoy fooling with .22's to see how far I can push them and myself.

Here's the last rimfire range day where a few from the safe went out for a test.



Of that bunch Beaver, only the Tikka and the 10/22 deluxe aren't epoxy bedded.

The 10/22 Deluxe was the only one with a stock/unmodified trigger.

For me to squeeze the most out of any of them, it seems that how I grip the rifle and how it's sitting in the rear bags makes the most difference. On the last photo of the ammo test for instance I was gripping the stock as lightly but still consistently as possible with my shooting hand and squeezing the ears on the rear bag just a wee bit.

Now truly when I shoot my hunting rifles, especially the lighter ones Beaver, if I don't hold the fore end down they'll shoot patterns for me, but the rimfires did and do show me that it's the tiny details in my technique that are making the difference in how I'm shooting.

Again I hope that was useful.

As mentioned we've got snow so the little diesel will be fired up and incantations spoken over the water pump as it's beginning to weep out the front seal so it's days are numbered. What I believe to be a replacement is sitting in a box on the bench so that's cool if it doesn't, but as the movie line went, "it'd be cooler if it didn't"...

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Dwayne

Mostly no. I have 1 .22LR rifle zeroed at 100 yards, a Remington 37 with a 30x Lyman Super Targetspot.

All of my other .22LR rifles are zeroed at 50 yards.

Anything over 50 yards that I shoot with a rimfire is going to be shot with a .17HM2, .17HMR, 5MM RM, or .22MAG.

My .22s are used for plinking, understudy practice, woods loafing, or warming up before shooting centerfires, not for hunting.

I like to go out to our bottom ground timber and still-hunt black walnuts and cow turds.

Zero mine at 50 yards. It will shoot slightly under an inch at 100 yards. The ballistic chart shown earlier is approximately accurate.

I can, with proper dialing regularly hit gongs out to 3-400 yards.

My favorite .22 is a dollar bill low at 100.

Horizontal or vertical

I don't zero mine at 100 but I shot it at 100 almost every time I take it out.

The bottom of my duplex is right on at 100 and the gun is zero'd at 50

I primarily use a .22LR for squirrel hunting. My rifles are zeroed for 50 yards.

I'd say you should obviously zero at your intended range. My 22's are sighted in at 50.

I keep mine zero’d at 50 yds, it shoots MOG ( minute of gophe) out to 75. At 100 yds there better be no wind.

Regular CCI generally shoot the best for me.

I have a 50' indoor range in the attic of my garage and shop. Works pretty well.

I like A/O adjustable scopes to get the right parallax for close in. Then, I can stretch'em out and check'em out.

I bought this scope from JB, works well on a tricked out 10-22 with Jard trigger, Volquartsen barrel.

DF

Another one. 3-9x33 EFR

DF