Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires At what range do you site in your .22lr

I usually sight mine in at a local range where I sight in all my guns. Sorry couldn’t resist

Boo

Zero at 20 with subs, and that zeros at 50 also for the Contender and a couple of bolt actions. 50 with the 10-22 with HV.

50 yards with around 1060 fps ammo, 60 with 1250 fps and the times that I used Stingers or Velocitors I sighted in at 70 yards.

50 yards with standard velocity ammo. Hasbeen

50yds / rifle & 25yds / pistol. All ammo types.

Shaq: I have a BUNCH of Rifles in caliber 22 L.R. that I use for Ground Squirrel/Small Game Hunting using high velocity hollow point ammunition. I sight these in at 100 yards dead on and using "Kentucky Windage" (hold over/hold under) for longer and closer distances.
My 22 L.R. pistols that I use for Small Game and Ground Squirrel Hunting are sighted in at 50 yards.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Zero @ 50 yards! memtb

Experience is an amazing thing.

50 yard zero with standard velocity ammo, bullet first crossing line of sight at 20 yards. So you could say zeroed at 20 yards? It works anyways.

25

Usually at 25 yards, then check it out to 50.

I have a scope Nikon 3-9 BDC 150, which seems to work pretty well. I actually zero’d @100 using the 100 yard hash mark, figuring that it would make the longer shots more accurate. When testing at 50 or less merely adjust mentally(Kentucky Windage) for the slight discrepancy! memtb

Well, last night I sighted in my 10/22 CSC at 10 yards, into a bullet trap, in my basement. First I put the Tract 3-15x42 against the bathroom mirror and centered the reticle. It was already in good rings from its last assignment, so I wrenched it down on the Ruger, set the focus at 10yards and power at 3x. Rested it in my old MTM cradle and squeezed one off (Eley Target). That one landed dead center 3/4” low, which experience shows will put me very close at 50. Fired four more into one slightly oblong hole. Set the knobs to zero.

Once I fine-tune it at the range and verify the ammo is acceptable, I’ll reset the zero and install the zero-stop knob. That scope came up short on clicks at 200 yards mounted on a 15moa rail, but the Ruger’s integrated one gives me 15moa more to play with. Can’t recall how much adjustment I used on the previous rifle or in which direction, but all things being equal, I should be good to hold right on at 200.

Pappy, will that trick work with the latest .22 I picked up, a cute-as-a-button little #4 Rolling Block, with ladder sight on the barrel?😁

My .22 squirrel rifles are generally sighted in at 30 yards for those that shoot high speed ammunition well. Those relegated to standard velocity ammo are sighted at 25. I like to stick to head shots and this works for me.

Well played my friend. You simultaneously poked fun at me and waved yet another of your nifty acquisitions under everyone’s nose. Nice work. 💃🏻

Have to warn you though, as soon as the poly dries, I’ll be posting pics of my latest FN in retort.

Just a general observation on this thread. Seems like sighting in distances is like "if the shoe fits, wear it". The western guys with the longer range targets sight in at 50-100 yards. The eastern guys at closer to bayonet distance at half that or less.

50

Unless I’m hunting grasshoppers, a 50yard zero allows me to hold right on to oh, 50 yards.

I don’t hunt grasshoppers…….anymore.