Hey Guys, I was reviewing Jim’s video about zeroing your rifle at 100yd instead of 200yd.
long story short, I live in Yukon where there is limited supplied. I purchased my gun over the phone and the company offered to install the scope and test 3 different ammo and they would give me the ballistics with the muzzle velocity etc. It saved me money because I don’t have a speedometer and a long range. I assumed that they would zero at 100yd. I bought a sake 90 adventure in 308.
I got the rifle , I went to the range. shoot slightly low at 100yd but zero at 200yd. I’m using the 308 trophy copper 165gr from federal premium.
anyway I didn’t feel like changing the zero back to 100yd and I m using that gun for caribous so I thought “ I’m covered from 100-300yd’“ type a thing.
Last month, I saw some caribous, way too far and my main focus was Moose hunting.I had brought my 308 and my 300wm.
After being soaked in the rain, tried different locations, going down river etc my wife and I finally had a Bull moose coming to my call. it’s a first time for me ( usually I happen running into them rather that them coming) and what a trip. I had my BF turret tags on my 308 ups to 600yds so I grab it in the morning instead of my 300. Which I learn that grain diameter matters.
what happened is the moose was across the lake at 900yd, came slowly , then disappears,
He popped behind us after 1h30 of wondering what the heck. He came straight at us.
for some reason I was anticipating a far shot and omg I ended up shooting it at maybe 40-50yd. For men fellow hunters who have seen a Moose from close , is terrifying.
I was wondering in my head, “ WTH, how close is too close” and he was coming head first. he ended up going slightly broadside and that’s when I took the shot.
I aimed for the heart. what I didn’t take into consideration, especially with the stress of the situation is that my rifle being zeroed at 200yd and the moose being within 50yd is that my shot was few inches higher than my crosshair. that + the smaller caliber the moose ran 15m, stood for a while , I could see air puffing though the side but he wouldn’t fall, he turned around , did couple step , I shot a second time for good measure and he fell.
while skinning it , I was happy to see that both rounds went through the lungs and because of the angle it exited buy the ribs so not much meat was affected by the bullet.
sorry for that long story, for me it was is much learning.
I thought that I would remember to aim lower to compensate for zeroed being at 200yd and also thought that the 308 vs 300wm would get the job done in similar fashion,
what happened is that smaller .308, shooting maybe 2-3 inches ( and I probably already shot a little hight before anything else) above where I wanted to shoot had me missed the heart by few inches. I’m pretty sure that the moose would have died anyways but I didn’t feel comfortable with him being so close, that why I took a second shot.
I feel that my 300wm 200gr would have likely stopped him in his stride. I guess I will never know.
and the moral for me is that I prefer re zeroing at 100yd. and always adjust my turret for my shot rather than having a 200yd zero and winging it form 100-300yds. I guess it’s a bad habit that I learned with different hunter I hunt with before. I don’t shoot enough to just guesstimate the distance.
hope you guys had a good hunt this year 
