100 yards with 12ft Lb springers - Part 2

[Ali-C]

Military snipers shooting at a measured 1000 yards will aim over 30 feet above their target to allow for bullet drop. Wind, weather, vertical incline, altitude and even temperature also all have to be taken into consideration.

To see it done it looks as if they are shooting up into the sky (even if the round has lost a lot of energy there I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end) - just a bit of trivia for ya!

Bob

I am gonna be annoying.

That is for your standard 7.62x51mm NATO, a 50BMG needs about 20 feet at 1500 yards.

[hwtyger]

I'd say yr better off with a .177. I get the idea that with my .22, the speed at close to 100m is getting too slow for good accuracy.
Also have to aim fár higher with .22 than with .177 of course..

[skylineman]

a PCP In 177 is good for 100 yards. But 20 Cal is not bad to it will be my next rifle.

[skinhead]

Military snipers shooting at a measured 1000 yards will aim over 30 feet above their target to allow for bullet drop. Wind, weather, vertical incline, altitude and even temperature also all have to be taken into consideration.

To see it done it looks as if they are shooting up into the sky (even if the round has lost a lot of energy there I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end) - just a bit of trivia for ya!

Bob

I am gonna be annoying.

That is for your standard 7.62x51mm NATO, a 50BMG needs about 20 feet at 1500 yards.

And what about .338 Lapua Magnum?

[Artfull-Bodger]

Took my HW98 .177 down our range last week to have a crack at the 100yard targets (basically a length of 4x2 nailed to the front of a tree and sticking out to the left, sitting on this masterpiece of engineering are eight old JSB.177 tins taped up in pairs and placed on the plank with the top facing the shooter)

I hung a card on the bottom with four one inch circles drawn on it and proceeded to zero the rifle at that range, the original zero was at 30 yards and I was quite suprised to find it took just two full turns (14moa per turn) and a few clicks to bring the rifle onto vertical zero!

you note I wrote "vertical", well thats because the , what I thought was, slight breeze played merry hell with the group, once zeroed for range I fired three shots to get a group, quite pleased when they all landed either on or right next to a circle only for the next two to drift off two inches left as the wind changed

in the end I resorted to hanging pellet tin lid tape in strategic places down the range to try and get a grip on what the breeze was doing!

the end result of all this mucking about was when the wind stabilised for a few minutes I was able to knock three of the four tins off the plank in succession only to have the wind change and utterly fox me with the last tin, despite ten shots at it I never figured out where the aim point needed to be and packed it in for the day!

this long range stuff is for fools, which is why im going back on saturday and I'm going to get four for four if it kills me!

it's all you lots fault giving me daft ideas!
I hate you all!