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Back to the topic. I sight in my rifle at 100 yards. But after that I think that it is very important to “box” your scope. That is getting a tall target with MOA or mil grid lines. You want to make sure that your elevation and windage torrents are correct. It isn’t uncommon for a scope to drift right or left as the elevation goes up. You want to make sure that the adjustment “clicks” are correct. Sometimes putting 2 minutes of elevation on your scope won’t be two minutes at the target. Also, on many scopes you can zero your scope at 100 yards then change the zero stop to 200 or 300 yards.

I have Leupold CDS scopes on 5 of my hunting rifles plus I just put one on a .22 rimfire.

My .300 Weatherby is zeroed and has a zero stop at 200 yards.

My other hunting rifles are zeroed at 100 and I put thin white lines on the top of their CDS caps for impacts at 200, 300, and 430 yards.

This afternoon I will zero my .22 rimfire at 50 yards and mark it's CDS cap at 100, 150, and 200 yards.