If you shoot the small calibers, i.e. .222, .222 Mag., .223, etc., At what distance do you zero your rifle? If you go for maximum range, you end up with a high mid-trajectory bullet path at shorter ranges. If you zero for something shorter like 150 or 200 yards, you give up the range and you have to hold over.
223, dead on @ 100; the Burris ballistic plex scope does the rest.
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I like my .223 to hit about 1/2" high at 100 yards.
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Posts: 28849 | Location: western Nebraska | Registered: 27 May 2003
I zero my 223 ultra varmint at 200 yards. I used to sight it in at 100, but i only use it for groundhogs and the 200 yard zero seems more practical, Its pretty much dead on at 50, A little over an inch high at 100 and groundhog death at 200.
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Posts: 100 | Location: New Enterprise PA | Registered: 09 December 2006
It makes a difference . Generally I agree with Sako 308 as well as the rest who said 200 Yd. . 200 Yd. is an excellent choice for any of the .22 center fires . ...
I zero mine at 300yds with 80gr.Sierra's 25gr.Varget and have come ups every 100yds. to 600yds. also how far to come down for an 200yds. Next zero will be 1000yds.
At my club range using .223 50 gr. Ultramax (the gun's favorite) I sight in for 1" high at 100 yards. For eastern groundhogs where I've been hunting that seems very effective.
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Posts: 621 | Location: Commonwealth of Virginia | Registered: 06 September 2003
Like some others have mentioned, zero at 100 yards, know the come ups and dial it in as the range is determined. That's the easy part, how do you dial in the windage?? Ask a High Power shooter using the 223 routinely at 600 yards and beyond. He can tell you.
Posts: 1165 | Location: Banks of Kanawha, forks of Beaver Dam and Spring Creek | Registered: 06 January 2005
I use Black's Creek range jsust outside of Boise, Idaho. The maximum there is 200 yards, so that's the range I use for everything. Beyond that, I use the data from JBM ballistics to work up a range card.
I, like many of the posters here,signt in at 100yds. With a 55gr bullet at 3100fps, zero is 113yds, maximum PBR is 171 yds with a three inch kill zone. This is from the Sierra infinity Suite software.
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Posts: 200 | Location: Western Maryland | Registered: 30 April 2005
just got back from the range w/ the GUV. 4.0" @ 100 keeps me in the head w/ chin strap aims out to 275 and in the torso w/ the same POA out to a little more than 400.
Posts: 3986 | Location: in the tall grass "milling" around. | Registered: 09 December 2006
Back I think in 1947,Jack O'Connor wrote an article for Outdoor Life and this article was reprinted and included with all Weaver scopes when they were made in El Paso(somewhere through early 80's). It will vary of course with different bullet weights velocities etc---but the bulk of guns sighted in at 25 yards will be back on around 200 more or less and that puts most high at 100 by a little. Easier to sight in at 25 and then check at longer distance and fine tune as needed. Basically line of sight being straight and bullet making an arc--line of sight cuts through the arc twice.
Posts: 1289 | Location: San Angelo,Tx | Registered: 22 August 2003
I usually find it best to zero my rifles on the range as then you are shooting at a known distance. Much better than guessing the distance and saying that'll do. lol
I zero my .222 rem to be 1.5" high at 100 and as I use it as a cull rifle (goat, deer and wallaby) that gives me a dead on hold out to 300.
Bugger I should have read the thread through. Pegleg already beat me on the range joke.
