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What's your sight-in range?

Greenwood Gun Club, Brazoria County, Texas.

I was waiting for someone to say that!

50/200yd

Magnum with Open country loads, I zero at 300yrds,MPBR is 350yrds, without changing scope the Magnum timber loads zero at 200yrds. Deer rifle is 200yrd zero MPBR 260yrds. 223 predator rifle 200yrds,MPBR is 250yrds. 22-250 300yrds, MPBR is 350yrds.

For KY White Tails, 1.0" to 1.5" high at 100 yds.... Shooting .243 and .270. Longest shot to date on the farm was approx 160-170 yards.

With the Zeiss Rapid Z reticle, I zero at 200 because that's how the reticle is designed to work. Then I go to 600 and make whatever minor adjustment to get the 600 yard mark dead on. Last time that was a .5 MOA adjustment at 600 and all shots afterward were solid hits at 300, 400, 500 and 600.

If I'm dialing, I zero at 100 but adjust elevation to 200 or so while hunting, dialing as necessary for farther.

John

I go for a PBR of +/- 3 inches above or below the line of sight. For rifles with high velocity and slippery bullets this usually sights the rifles in somewhere past 250 yards.

For slower speeds with frumpy, lumpy bullets (eg 45-70) this might mean a sight in between 140 and 180 yards.

My personal range has target frames at 50y, 120y and a number of improvised frames out to 450y. I do most of my sighting in and general development work on the 120y target.

I find that your IQ plus your caliber divided by 2 usually gets close.....

2" high at 100 yards works for my hunting. Usually on the hardwood slopes. It'll bust them at any reasonable range I can expect here.

Damn, that means I have to sight in at 244. Pretty close to MPBR too.

Question for those who have experience shooting at runners at reasonable range. Do you find you normally hit high or low? Remember by the time all the nerves travel to trigger pull and the bullet gets there, they usually are not where you think they are.

Timing the high point for the above reason is mostly BS.

Let's use this Deer as an example? Down for awhile and then up for awhile????
How would you like your sight-in set up?

How things can possibly change in a minute.

It VERY much humors me,how all these dumbfhuqqs come up with all these "tricky" sight-in schemes,to keep from using the crosshair intersection. Funny schit!

Joe Average sure as [bleep] ain't very bright.

I can't remember the last time I wasn't using POA/POI crosshair intersection,to arrange that which I wanted to be did. Movers are farrrrrrrr from "daunting" and a literal breeze,though admittedly...most folks only "shoot" their Imaginations and that via their Pretend.

Points awarded for the humor associated with Goat [bleep] reticles,CDS and the like.

Shaking my head...while holding my sides in laughter. The Stupidity is boundless and then some.

Wow.

I save the bouncing running shots for the bunnies. Like jackrabbits where I grew up. Zig zag, around the sage brush, flat out like a streak, lead them by a mile and hope you hit them by the 3rd shot

All this to figure out the maximum point blank range.Dispearity Just me but hold ammo then ask how to shoot. Start close stay close then move slowly out only you will know were , If you find your self disceridged back it up to your last positive,then move ahead.

Battue, as a kid when we culled them in the thousands I shot lots of kangaroos. Nothing bounds up and down more.

I just ignored the up and down, and gave them a little more or less lead depending on how far away they were. Pretty soon you got real good at not missing them.

I think you've just gotta forget the up and down.

If I can run with them for some distance the sight settles in. If not they are pretty safe. A nice even trot or lope helps, but there is always some up and down going on. Big ups and downs do not.

Few xx's on the scope power help and a lot of them don't. If one could practice runners a bunch like you did, a well fitted rifle and irons may be the ticket, but I'll never have the chance to prove it.

The more I fool around here in the East and in the wood, dead on at 100 covers most all. Past that I can turn turrets for the particular situation.

The big open obviously changes things.

That deer appears to be under 100 yards away. It won't matter whether you are zeroed POA at 100 yards or 2" high,or 3" high at 100 yards.But I would not want the high point of my mid range to be any more than 3.5" at any moderate distance.

They can be killed at the height of their leap, but the tendency to shoot high is because we can see more of the deer at the high point of the leap,and by the time we react they are no longer there. The deer is moving ahead and up and down simultaneously so therefore must be led.

None of this is a "one size fits all" scenario, but from what I see the hold should be low and ahead with a moving rifle.The bullet should be in that deer right where she is or an instant before.

Bob,
Close in that she was right around 150.Telephoto lens sucked her in. Easy shot with a camera, but I wouldn't have been shooting with a rifle at that range with her on the run like that. Inside 75 or so, yes if I could run with her a bit.

On a slow trot at 150? Not sure, the sight would make the decision. When I think about it probably not. I've shot enough off hand at that range to know how much I can spay bullets off hand at 150. Still learning.

A "moving rifle" is key. Paper doesn't move and many never get the feel for it. It has been mentioned before, but this is where a lot of shotgunning can carry over.

battue I agree....damned telephoto lenses fooled me.