Ziad wrote:Saw this, very interesting idea
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Great, if all your shooting is further than 1000yds
A three-meter hold-under on that deer at 550yds is going to be fun to judge.
The meme is clearly a piss-take
You only need to zero as far out as required to still have enough in the turret to be able to dial in the longest shot you might take.
My Bushnell scopes give me 105MoA of elevation.
If I zero the 6.5x55mm at 250m right at the bottom of the turret (using a 50MoA rail) it leaves me enough elevation adjustment to dial onto a target around 1800m away. But the bullet is transitioning by about 1400m anyway.
It becomes more obvious, and relevant when you shoot the .22LR at longer ranges.
If I zero at 50m with a level rail I only have enough elevation in the turret to dial out to around 180m.
If I zero at 50m with a 50MoA rail though, I have enough to dial out to around 240m.
A 100m zero with a 50MoA rail lets me reach out to almost 500m, but requires a hold-under of around 115mm at 65m, workable on foxes, but getting difficult for head-shooting rabbits.
That's why they make 34mm tubes and offer 160MoA or more of adjustment on long-range scopes.