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wilcam47 · Jun 23, 2016

I found this article interesting. Its good for my style of hunting, as I dont shoot at animals past 300yds typically.

https://www.americanhunter.org/articles/2014/2/4/the-26-yard-hunting-zero/

also a good 25yd and 50yd zero PRINTABLE target.

http://www.bobdbob.com/~deneb/doc/targets/m16a2-25m-zero.pdf

http://arma-dynamics.com/assets/red-dot-50yd-mod1.pdf

vetogunban · Jun 23, 2016

Interesting.

dist1646 · Jun 23, 2016

The law of angular projection blows holes it the author's theory! Theory is all that it is.

jawn · Jun 23, 2016

The Army's been doing a variation of this for years. They zero M16s at 25m and then check zero at 300m.

molonlabe · Jun 23, 2016

It works well for the 5.56 because of the height of the sight above the boar axis and ballistics of the 55gr bullet at 3200 fps.

TheBert · Jun 23, 2016

jawn said:
The Army's been doing a variation of this for years. They zero M16s at 25m and then check zero at 300m.

Way back when, we shot the M16A1's. We would go to the 900 inch line (aka 25 yard line) and shoot three rounds. If we were getting dime sized groups we would then adjust the sights to move the point of impact to the center of the target by shooting additional 3 shot groups. If you couldn't get three shot groups in a dime sized area then you needed remedial instruciton of sight alignment and sight picture and squeezing the trigger.

BZO = Battle Sight Zero was center mass at 300 yards.

Minuteman · Jun 23, 2016

jawn said:
The Army's been doing a variation of this for years. They zero M16s at 25m and then check zero at 300m.

Yep. For 5.56 it makes sense.

wilcam47 · Jun 23, 2016

well if you look at ballistics its not too far off on the different calibers...it basically using .270 in a 6inch window of drop from 26yds out to 300...which for deer sized target is a kill shot. Assuming you dont mess by flinching when you shoot.

Pale Ryder · Jun 23, 2016

Chuck Hawks on chuckhawks.com has been quoting point blank range numbers in his tests for years on various cartridges.

Minuteman · Jun 23, 2016

Pale Ryder said:
Chuck Hawks on chuckhawks.com has been quoting point blank range numbers in his tests for years on various cartridges.

Chuck Hawks knows his stuff, I've been quoting him for many years.

wilcam47 · Jun 24, 2016

Pale Ryder said:
Chuck Hawks on chuckhawks.com has been quoting point blank range numbers in his tests for years on various cartridges.

This is the first Ive heard of him..so I'll check it out! thanks!

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