How far can I shoot with this scope?

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I wanna break out past 100 (wow) and Im interested to know when Ill run out of MOA adjustment. I think shooting steel at 500 would be cool but Ill work my way up.


Scope claims 90 moa total elevation adjustment and my rail has 0. when do I run out of clicks?

Derp forgot its 308. 150 or 168 gr
 
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GunNewb said:
I wanna break out past 100 (wow) and Im interested to know when Ill run out of MOA adjustment. I think shooting steel at 500 would be cool but Ill work my way up.


Scope claims 90 moa total elevation adjustment and my rail has 0. when do I run out of clicks?
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When you have dialed all 90moa up...

Bullet weight, caliber, elevation, air density , barometric pressure are all factors

This is like asking how much water do you need to drink to not feel thirsty


That being said with no further information most 223 with heavier bullets or bigger cartrages should get to 500 on a flat rail
 
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Most scopes start to have issues when you approach the limits of thier adjustments. If you plan on shooting mostly at a particular range, it would improve performance if you set up your optics, and the rail, so that the scope is somewhere near the middle of it's adjusment range. So if you find that you need to come up 20MOA from neutral, a 20MOA rail would help.

As has been mentionned, the question is a bit too vague to answer properly.
 
pilot_dc said:
Most scopes start to have issues when you approach the limits of thier adjustments. If you plan on shooting mostly at a particular range, it would improve performance if you set up your optics, and the rail, so that the scope is somewhere near the middle of it's adjusment range. So if you find that you need to come up 20MOA from neutral, a 20MOA rail would help.

As has been mentionned, the question is a bit too vague to answer properly.
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Juster said:
You need to know what your drop at 500 is in moa. Use a ballistic calculator. Then you will know the answer to the question you have asked.
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Aside from these 2 post's being the correct answer at this time ... Ill take a wild guess and say you should be abe to shoot 800 with out a 20moa rail, Definatly 500
 
I have a 65 MOA scope with a 20 MOA base. I shoot 155 Scenars at 2870 fps out of this 308.
No problem getting to 1000 yards and I have 7 MOA left for elevation.
The receiver ring diameter where the scope bases attach to, could be part of the equation for or against you.
 
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Assuming the scope is zeroed at 100, with the adjustments centered, with half the elevation up and half down available. That's 45 minutes available. You will need 30-odd minutes to get to 900m. There would be no issues at all getting a good 500m zero, without starting to play with inclined bases or eccentric scope rings.
 
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That is a huge assumption.
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While the load makes a difference, a .308 will need less than 40 minutes to get from 100m to 900m.
If a scope has 90 minutes of internal adjustment, the mounting system is going to have to be pretty bad if 40 minutes are not available after 100m zeroing.
 
While the load makes a difference, a .308 will need less than 40 minutes to get from 100m to 900m.
If a scope has 90 minutes of internal adjustment, the mounting system is going to have to be pretty bad if 40 minutes are not available after 100m zeroing.
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I have mounted many scopes where the adjustments were nowhere near centered when the rifle was sighted in at 100 yards.
 
And I have seen rifles that could not be zeroed because the initial alignment was so far off that the internal adjustment of the scope could not handle it.
 
minox za5 1.5-8x. shooting 308

sounds like I dont really have to sweat this for 500 yards. 500 is a future proposition. 200-350 much more likely for a good while
 
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