Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires Love the Long-Range Calculations [when they work]

...which actually is most of the time. Clayne B.'s postings always get me motivated for some long range 22 shooting, and his latest here did it again.

Couple years ago Wal-Mart had their 3-9x "mil-dot" reticled scopes on clearance for about 45$ or so, so i figured to get one and see if it would "work". I mounted it on my Ruger Charger/Kidd barrel setup, and did an evaluation for rimfirecentral right here-- http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=459124&highlight=sscoyote

Put the optic back on a Browning Buckmark Varmint and went to th range last Fri. with mom in tow [she likes to shoot 22's too). We zeroed it and she shot out to 150 with surprisingly good results. Then she got on the spotting scope and i got setup to shoot some shale rock at the 230 yd. berm. Shale rock is the greatest inanimate reactive target of all time IMO as it explodes on impact from a 22 even at 300 yds. [cheap too). Love it!

So i knew that to get to 230 yds. i would need 26 MOA correction from 50-yd. zero. The "mil-dots" in the optic subtend 4.0 MOA at 9x. Thinking about it a minute i figured if i cranked the optic to 4.5x [1/2 of 9), 3 MD's down would net me 24 MOA correction... + 2.0 MOA on the turret and i oughtta' come close. Sure enough i nailed a 4-5" round shale rock and it exploded on que on the 3rd shot. That's the fun i get out of shooting stuff these days--calcing. reticle subtension vs. magnification as an example. If you've never tried it you oughtta'. It really is a kick...when it works.

I love shooting peoples factory guns long range using that same technique. I have won quite a few catfish lunches at the local restaurant doing it. I usually have a site-in target hanging at 100 yards. Dial the scope all the way down and sighting on the 100 yard target figure where I need to hold the duplex junction to hit my 800 yard target. I have won lunches off of one guy for about the last five years. He says it is a tradition now and offers the bet to me when I finish sighting his rifle in. I think I may have missed one year, but he bought lunch anyway for my site-in services.

That's pretty good Eddy--good story too.