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50 yard Zero for your AR?
Mr. Perfect
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Looks like it works best for the most common shooting distances (with charts to prove it):
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And fiery auto crashes
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Coming down the mountain
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
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Mine is sighted in from the porch to the mailbox.
Seems to make sense. I was going to suggest that the height of your sights or scope above the bore may make a difference, and while it probably does, it most likely will not make a 300 zero very practical.
Brad Steele
Beyond 50 yards you need more gun than an AR.
I think mine is sighted in at 50 yards. That sounds about the perfect distance to ward off those pesky soul savers, and unwanted guest!!!
My time in uniform, they were sighted in at 100 yards, but that was a long time ago. I still site them in at 100.
Interesting
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That's perfectly legal now.
Encouraged, in some municipalities!
For my varmint rifles......I sight-in for 1.5" high at 100 yards.......which gives a point-blank (plus or minus 2 inches) range of approximately 280 yards.
For bigger game rifles......they get sighted-in for 1.75" high at 100 yards......and results in a point-blank (plus or minus 3 inches) range of about the same 280 yards.
Note that, after all these years, I've rarely had to hold "off-hair" to connect.
A pic of one of the varmint rifles afield.
Basic training 1970, Ft. Leonard Wood, we sighted our '16s in at 25 meters. The farthest targets for us were 350 meters (somewhere around 383 yards); they were pop-up targets that were silhouetts of a person from about mid-thigh up. Pretty easy when nobody was shooting back.
I hate it when folks don't clean up their shot up appliances.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Then you were the only unit in the armed forces that uses the M-16xx to do so. Zero was done at 25 Meters everywhere else.
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You saw that too? Don
Ugh, Can't see my mail box. 750' thru the trees.