DOA 600 reticle, someone explain please!

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So between a GC for wholesale sports i got from my lady for my birthday, and other scopes ive sold, I "Bought" (for free... to me...) a bushnell trophy XLT 3.9x40 with the DOA 600.

I'm putting it on my Savage axis .223.

Here's my question, According to the manual it says to sight in at 100 yards. And then each "dot" on the reticle is for 200, 300, 400, 500, and the bottom post is supposed to put you on at 600 yards FOR A VARIETY of calibres that to my knowledge have very different ballistics! Note: i said to my knowledge... and i haven't googled each of the calibres. How can the same reticle be good for so many different calibres?

Will this reticle prove to be "dead on accurate" as they advertise with my setup? I shoot 55 grain AE ammunition exclusively.
 
Yea that's the plan, I bought this rifle for coyotes but I've been having too much fun with targets so far. But I do wanna check it out before I get around to yotes. Just to be sure.

Was just hoping someone could chime in with their experiences.
 
I have one of those, on my 22LR.

Actually works really good for silouette. I zero at 44 meters, and each dot works out to just about perfect for each animal.

What I find works really well is once you have a zero, just write down the magnification required to shift an aim-point to a given range. So if you are not hitting 200 yards on 9x, you might if you adjust the magnification to 7.5x for example. It just takes some experimentation.

If you are REALLY keen, figure out what the subtensions of the dots are, at each magnification. If you can figure out the BC of your bullet, and the velocity out of your barrel, you can compare punch that into a number of online ballistic calculators and figure out what the range of each dot will represent at each magnification level.
 
Never thought of the magnification thing before sounds like it should work decently.

As for the last idea, sounds complicated lol I'm still a little too "green" I guess.
 
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