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How do you sight in your scope???
Texas Hunter
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I had a conversation at lunch with a fellow who hunts in an area of Texas(Terrell County) where both Whitetail and Mule Deer are both present.
He uses a .270 and at times a 25-06.
I asked him how he goes about sighting in his scope and he told me he goes by a formula called the rule of three and is sometimes known as maximum point blank range.
He says generally he sights his scopes to shoot three inches high so when the time comes that he sees a deer at say 275 yards he does not have to compensate for droppage and can just line the crosshairs up and shoot.
I have read of this but since generally most shots i would take where i hunt would be probably be more like 135 yards average with maybe one out to 225 yards i have always sighted mine in to shoot (caliber depending)to shoot one and a half to two inches high at 100 yards.
Never had a problem doing it this way and i do know the area he hunts in could provide for some really long shots so i guess it works fine for him.
So i was curious how you other deer hunters and varmint hunters sight in your scope.
Fwiw a couple of guys i hunt with sight their guns in to be dead on at 100 yards.
One of those guys shot under(i hope!!) a very large buck last year at a distance of around 220 yards and that's according to his range finder.
He was shooting a Rem. 760 chambered in 300 Savage.
mike
He uses a .270 and at times a 25-06.
I asked him how he goes about sighting in his scope and he told me he goes by a formula called the rule of three and is sometimes known as maximum point blank range.
He says generally he sights his scopes to shoot three inches high so when the time comes that he sees a deer at say 275 yards he does not have to compensate for droppage and can just line the crosshairs up and shoot.
I have read of this but since generally most shots i would take where i hunt would be probably be more like 135 yards average with maybe one out to 225 yards i have always sighted mine in to shoot (caliber depending)to shoot one and a half to two inches high at 100 yards.
Never had a problem doing it this way and i do know the area he hunts in could provide for some really long shots so i guess it works fine for him.
So i was curious how you other deer hunters and varmint hunters sight in your scope.
Fwiw a couple of guys i hunt with sight their guns in to be dead on at 100 yards.
One of those guys shot under(i hope!!) a very large buck last year at a distance of around 220 yards and that's according to his range finder.
He was shooting a Rem. 760 chambered in 300 Savage.
mike
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"We become what we habitually do. If we act rightly, we become upright men. If we habitually act wrongly, or weakly, we become weak and corrupt" - *ARISTOTLE*
**Like Grandad used to say--"It'll feel better when it quits hurtin"
2.5" high at 100 yards for everything.
I go about the same for most .30 caliber hunting weapons. I usually have to sight on 100 yard range. i use the table/info on the box to figure the 25yd and 200 yd trajectory. Then i test the dat by zeroing at 25yds and then shooting group at 100 yards. Group at 100 yds should be x mumber of inches high, same as on box(usually about 2 inches.)
"Waiting tables is what you know, making cheese is what I know-lets stick with what we know!"
-Jimmy the cheese man
"their in front of us,their behind us,their to our left,and to our right...they cant get away from us now boys!"
dead on at fifty yards.
Same here Salzo
My12 ga. slugger is dead on at 70 yds.
I'm hoping to talk JustC into teaching me to zero my 7mm RUM for 2.6 miles, one day!*LOL*[:D]
a good 3-4" high at 100yds will get you a good 300-350yds dead nuts and a slight holdover over the back at 400yds. YMMV
why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
Got Balistics?
I did once shoot a doe at 350 yards with it. dead center and 18 inches of hold over.......
My best shot ever was 500 yards with 'poppies' .270. (got cut loose from the hospital with pneumonia on day 2 of doe season by crying to doctor that I couldn't afford another night there, and that I'd be just lying on couch at home.....) shot it off the top of a Nova in a friend's yard to the back of the sag behind Skeeters......sighted at 500, one shot.....poppie went up with me and helped me gut it...(stabbed me in the meat of my thumb with his knife, then i got 'collected' by the deer going down the hill. ) but as a single guy, for a few weeks we all ate well.
sight it for as far as you can.......
If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made tham out of meat!
This, uh, poor shot's court date is next week. [:(]
"Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit" --OVID
A friend of mine once showed me an interesting way to 'bore sight" he said he could never see down the bore well enough to center the bull and adjust scope. What he did was to run a string(monofilament ) down the barrel of his .270 through an empty shell with a knot tied in the string through the primer hole. then he ran the string all the way to the target under tension and centered the string in the end of the barrell. He now has a perfect bore line to the target and adjusts his scope accordingly. he says it works for him.