Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Sight in at 50 & 100 yards chart?

Many years ago, in a time long, long ago, Outdoor Life (I think), had a chart in it. Possibly by Carmichael, with all the common cartridges listed, that gave 50 & 100, and further, sight in ranges. It told to sight in this or that much over at a given range for a given cartridge. Anyone have access to such a thing and be willing to share?

I use MPBR...

https://www.chuckhawks.com/rifle_trajectory_table.htm

All in my head

Should be easy to google trajectory tables for what you’re looking for.

Chuck hawks charges money don't they?

MPBR is basically "paper plate shooting"... 9" paper plate that is.

My 9,3M is set at 4.25" high at 100... 4.5" high at 112 yard... 0" at 186 yards and 4.5" low at 286 yards IIRC.

Think it is 2" high at 50.

Not that I am aware of...

I add "Chuck Hawks" to many searches.

His stuff is very simple and detailed... One page reads mostly.

Every heterosexual male high school boy had the Federal ammo chart in his English folder.

I did Google it. Chuck hawks does have it, but wanted me to join.

Click this link... it should help.

Free on my desktop.

Got it. Thank you. This android is sure a pain trying to edit and print from.

Is there some particular reason to use a generic chart and not calculate your own trajectory? You need to know the ballistic coefficient of the bullet but even if you're using factory ammo most manufacturers these days will list the BC of their particular loads.

This one is very user friendly. (Use the G1 drag coefficient, if any manufacturer uses the G7 they'll mention it.)

Hornady Ballistic Calculator

Hornady Ballistic Calculator is available online. Plug in your information about your ammo, Ballistic coefficient, velocity, zero range, etc and it will tell you where you bullet will be at various ranges. It will be accurate enough that you could use the 50yd distance above or below zero to be fairly accurate at whatever zero range you choose.

Easy, peasy!

I can't see the forest for the trees where I hunt and I see very little reason to sight my rifles in high at a hundred when all the shots that I get are usually half of that distance and in the brush. Threading a bullet between branches says to me that I want my bullet going very close to the center of the crosshairs. Most deer hunting guys in these parts sight in dead on at a hundred.

Didn't we run off Chuck H when he came on the 'Fire?

I like this one:

https://www.jbmballistics.com/cgi-bin/jbmtraj-5.1.cgi

25/300 zero. Dope sheets for the rifles based on a ballistic calculator. Verify in the field.

If you do the kind of close range hunting that occasionally requires a very well placed shot to thread through a hole in timber or brush...nothing but a ballistic calculation chart will do. One very important thing to remember when using "generic" pre printed charts...scope height above boreline, ignore this at your peril...it's big factor at close ranges. Use one of the calculators and print or memorize the results.

JBM will give you whatever yardage breakdown you want, in a nice chart you can print out.

Needs to be verified in the field though.

https://jbmballistics.com/cgi-bin/jbmtraj_simp-5.1.cgi

On the jbmballistics.com chart, key in your range increments and your zero range. Also, when you Google jbmballistic, the first page to pop up will show JBM Calculations - Trajectory (Simplifed).....click on that and it will take it to a page where you can find you bullet you are looking. Then just fill in all the data it is asking for. Very simple and if you key in your range increments and zero range and velocity of your bullet, it will show the drop, drift at any wind speed you key in. I use 50 yards range increments that way it will show the drop every 50 yards. Best one I have found and very accurate if you know your velocity. It will also show your foot lbs of energy for your yardage