What is wrong with being sighted deadon and

[deadon]

Holding over for the different ranges one might hunt at. All I know is what I learned from age 6 until I went is the service at age eighteen and what I have learned from 45 yrs of shooting SINCE. I have no formal shooting training since the USAF. I zero at one hundred yrds, shoot at 50, 100 to insure zero, 150, 200, 250 ,and with my 243 and my 223 I also shoot at 300 350 and 400 yrds. I then put mashing tape on my pop up lens covers and note the drops. I do not understand any other way. Your never too old to learn. Can anyone teach brain dead old man a better way? Rusty

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Here's an article written by Chuck Hawks that explains MPBR [Maximum Point Blank Range].... It's a method of sighting in that enables the shooter to hold dead on at extended ranges without figuring holdover.Zen
www.chuckhawks.com/rifle_trajectory_table.htm

[stubblejumper]

Deadon

If it works for you then why change? Where I hunt in the open prairies of Alberta I use the point blank method described in the link above.

For me its just simpler to sight in 3" high at 100 and go hunting.

With my 270 I am good to about 350 yards without holding high and at 400 I can raise the crosshair up to the back line of the deer.

When that big deer is standing at 300 yards I prefer to aim and shoot instead of trying to figure distance and drop but then I am a liitle simpler than some =)

I dont know if you want to change now though without lots of practice time or you may find yourself shooting over animals

[tdillinger]

ditto on that that, 3 to 4 inches high at a 100 yds your good to 300. Im using a 7mm rem. However i have never shot anything past 75 yds with it. My slug gun 12g rem 1187 3 inch mag copper solid i have shot deer at 200. go figure.

[pposey]

well most of my shots are shorter so I go 1 inch high at 100, and have the drops written on my stock for more than 1 inch low every 50 yards with all my centerfires and the ml2s

[deadon]

Nov 9, 2010 12:27:59 GMT -5 pposey said:

well most of my shots are shorter so I go 1 inch high at 100, and have the drops written on my stock for more than 1 inch low every 50 yards with all my centerfires and the ml2s

That is basically what I do also. Thanks Rusty

[deadon]

Thanks for all the reply's Guys. It works for me so I will not try to keep up with the Jones Rusty

[ozark]

The oldest theory for higher powered deer rifles is to sight in three inches high at 100 yards if the rifle is scoped. Drop depends on bullet weight and velocity. They all drop some with all ranges beyond 100 yards. My personal effort is to determine the point bland range for the rifle I intend to use. This enables me to aim dead on knowing that the drop will be in the killing area of a deer. On smaller game I am working with the knowledge of bullet drop at various ranges. As mentioned, what ever melts you butte and works well for you is your best bet.

[deadon]

Thanks again, Rusty

[deadon]

Nov 8, 2010 19:30:04 GMT -5 @panhandle said:

Here's an article written by Chuck Hawks that explains MPBR [Maximum Point Blank Range].... It's a method of sighting in that enables the shooter to hold dead on at extended ranges without figuring holdover.Zen
www.chuckhawks.com/rifle_trajectory_table.htm

Very interesting Panhandle, I may have to rethink this thing. thank you, Rusty

[pposey]

I usta keep my .270 sighted in 3 inches high at 100,,, was dead nuts on at 200+something,,, but almost all of my shots are well within 200, most within 100, and many are taken quickly in cover, I want that bullet riding the crosshairs in so to speak

[stubblejumper]

For close cover it makes more sense to have your bullet "on the hairs" for sure. Where I live my bullet could travel for 45 minutes before it hit the first tree =)

[pposey]

Sounds like central IL... usta bow hunt up there every year and the MILES of open fields always made me feel wayyy to open,, wanted back here in the hills after a week