3'' high at 100 yards?

You need to have an idea of the farthest shot you might conceivably take and the ballistics of the round you shoot. My farthest shot is 200 yds, but the majority of chances are at 75-125 yds. I was initially sighted 2" high at 100 yds (1" low at 200 yds), but found that I was consistently shooting higher than I liked on the deer I killed. I aimed in the centre of the boiler room and it was dead, but if you by chance aim high, or have to aim high due to long grass for example, you could end up with a miss. It's a lot more difficult to force yourself to aim low for closer in shots (unnatural in a sense), then to aim a bit high when the deer's farther away. I now zero 1" high.
 
todbartell said:
I like 2" high at 100 myself for most any cartridge.
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I have my 22-250 and my 7mm-08 sighted in for 1.5" high at 100, Should be almost dead on at 200. A bit low at 250 and at 300 I have to think hard about making a shot.
(so far my longest shot has been 127yds)
I have also found with this sighting I can shoot from 4 yds (as I did 2 weeks ago on a fox) to 50 yds with absolutely zero compensation. If I want to shoot a small animal between the eyes at 75-100 I have to compensate between 0.5"-1.5"
 
sealhunter said:
"I've learned to dislike having a high mid range trajectory. When the need for a close range shot occurs, particularly if it is around 70 yards you might shoot under the animal. Sight in for 200 yards and learn the POI at ranges from 5 yards out to 300 yards, or to a quarter mile if you are so inclined."

please explain shooting under an animal at 70 yrds if you are 3 inches high at 100. I don't get this
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It goes sort of like this: The rifle (a .270 150gr@2900) sighted to print 4" high at 100 (in my case) and the caribou presented a broadside shot at 70. I thought the caribou was bigger but a bit farther away. I out smarted myself and aimed at the bottom line of the chest becasue "I knew" the bullet would rise 4" at 100 and make a nice neat heart shot. Instead the bullet went right where I aimed, clipped a bit of hair off, no blood, and he is probably still telling the story to his grand children. Lesson learned. I keep my mid range trajectory lower, and think a bit less. Would of a normal 1/3rd the way up the body hold worked - sure but close range misses are a behavoir changing experience.
 
Well, all this talk of shooting under an animal with a 3 or even 4" high at 100 setting is very strange. Never missed any animal with the 3" high setting regardless of closeness of the shot, since once the bullet is about 30-35 yards out it is above the line of sight anyway. Where the miss could occur, is at midrange, in combination with a range estimation that is too long. The shooter may decide to hold on the hairline, and thus shoot OVER, not under, the animal, since even with the 3" high @100 setting, the bullet could be 4" or a little more high at midrange. I am comfortable with the +3" setting, since I have used it for so long, and know within a ¼" where the bullet will strike right out to 400+ yards. (even further with certain chamberings) But the bottom line is, one must use what they are comfortable & familiar with, and then stick with it. I know a couple of very fine field shots who sight in dead on at 100, and then memorize the drop out to 300 or a bit more. These guys don't miss many shots either, so it's what you like and use that really matters. Regards, Eagleye
 
I am going to get racked over the coals for this BUT, this 3 inch above bull sight in, at 100yards, is exactly what I used for my 30-30 carbine in 2005.

With a high hold-over, of what I believe to be just over a foot of bullet drop, I "popped" the nicest whitetail I have ever harvested....

PS I was lucky enough to have no preceiveable crosswind.

The deer gladly offered his white throat patch, for an aiming point, as he looked at me head on, for a one shot harvest...

Cheers
 
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