Common Zeroing for Centrefire

Free-2-Flow

So, To all the centrefire deer hunters.
How many meters are you dialing your scope in for to shoot deer?
Preferably in .308.

100m?
150m?

DogfoxCork

100yds is a pretty common zero. some zero an inch high at 100 but i favour the zero at 100 personally

Cass

All the shots on my permissions are between 40 to 147 yards. So i keep a 100 yard (91 mtr) zero. This gives me, with the factory ammo i use, a 1.5 drop out to 200 and down to 50. So its essentially a point and shoot rifle from 50 to 200 yards.

Grizzly 45

50 meters,but that's the scope manufacture recommendation,and as its a 1/6 power,and I don't need to reach out and touch any deer over 200 meters.:)

clivej

200y with my Sako 75 varmint .308 rifle.

This for me is point and shoot out from here to 225y.
Using a Bushnell Tactical elite 4200 6-24x50mm mildot.

Hunterjohnb

A zero of 175 mtrs will give you a point and shoot range out to 300 mtrs. assuming you are taking engine room shots.If you want to be more accurate a 100 mtr zero and make out a dope chart to whatever range you fancy.

clivej

Hunterjohnb wrote: »

A zero of 175 mtrs will give you a point and shoot range out to 300 mtrs. assuming you are taking engine room shots.If you want to be more accurate a 100 mtr zero and make out a dope chart to whatever range you fancy.

Dope chart isn't any good if you don't know the target range.

Maybe only a dope know's this vital information.

cookimonster

The inch high or so at 100yrds is more or less standard.

You can go on line with either ammunition manufacturers or buy into Strelok app and such, add in some basic info - ammo spec, scope height etc (it won't be 100%) and work out the approximate Point Blank Range. This will give you, in theory, your trajectory hight at a 100 yards and max distance that you can point and shoot.

But and a big BUT all of this is academic until you put shots on paper. Get your confidence by punching paper both at 100 and your expected max range and in fact if you can stretch it out go beyound to 300yrds. You never know when you may have no choice but to take that shot.

Hunterjohnb

clivej wrote: »

Dope chart isn't any good if you don't know the target range.

Maybe only a dope know's this vital information.

That is why range finders were invented.Do you really need every thing laid out in plain sentences?

Cass

Anyone ever try the formula for when you use the ranging setting on your scope? Once you get used to it it does work. It might be rough, but it'll get you fairly close. I tried it once on a crow at 220 yards with my .22lr. got the distance/hold right, just never allowed for wind.