Quick question for the long range shooters in here. How would you dial in MOA adjustments for various ranges while shooting at a 100yd target? I don’t have access to long range places to shoot and the closest available to me is about 4-5 hours away. Is it as simple as adjusting the scope one inch at a time on target for every 100 yards added? When I do get to that range I typically make adjustments for roughly every 50 yards on the targets they have at the range but I’ve never done it on a fixed distance target.
Correct me if I am wrong, but what I understood your question as is “how to practice and confirm dialing for shooting to distances further than 100 yards when you are limited to only a 100 yard target?” If that is the case than my recommendation would be to take the data provided to you on the box (assuming you’re shooting factory ammo) like the listed velocity as well as the G1 ballistic coefficient and plug that into some sort of ballistic calculator. I use the Hornady one, it’s simple and straightforward to use. After that just enter in your environmental conditions and rifle info. From there it will give you a nice little table giving you both your angular measurements (MOA) to dial for each distance, as well as an actual bullet drop measurement in inches which you could confirm by measuring on your 100 yard target how high or low it would be impacting from the center. Nothing compares to hard data, but we work with what we’ve got. Have your gun zeroed in at 100, dial for the distance adjustments, shoot, and then measure how many inches it is afterwards. Another thing I would add is if your inch measurements don’t line up with the measurements the ballistic calculator is telling you than I would toggle with your bullet velocity in the calculator until the numbers fairly match up. I’ve had plenty of factory ammunition be 100fps slower than what the box advertises. Long winded answer but hope that helps any!
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Wow, thats a rough one. What Kahi said is the only way to get close. I always shoot at the distance but if you don’t have it then you just don’t.
When shooting at 100 yards you can check the turrets by shooting a group at zero at 100 then dial elevation 10MOA. Continue aiming at the same point of aim you shot the first group at. Your next group should be 10 inches higher. (1” per moa at 100) So you can put a 100 yard dot as point of aim for all shots. Then straight line above put a different color sticker at 2” 4” 6” etc. so you will all ways aim at the 100 yard dot. Dial 2moa you should impact 2” high target. 4 moa it should hit 4” high target. However this won’t be representative of targets at distance unless you calculate bullet drop and altitude and all that.
If you calculate your ballistics for 500 yard shot and let’s say u have 12” of bullet drop. At 500 yards 1 moa=5” so you would dial 2.5 moa or 9 clicks. So at 100 you put a dot 2.5” above you 100 yard point of aim. That would be what you would dial for 500 yard target.
Does that make sense? It is complex I guess when explaining it
Have you played with the Hornady 4DOF app? That will give you the ballistic solutions you’ll need. It’s usually spot on out to 400, and then some truing (actually shooting shots at the distance and adjusting the app to match) is required for shots longer than that.
I’ve tried using the app before but since I use factory loads and don’t reload building a profile is pretty difficult. Also I’m not too famiar with the app or ballistics calcualtions so there’s a lot more information to track and input than I’m familiar with.
Hm… let me put a video together for you. I’ll add it to my list.
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That would be fantastic thank you.
A good app like Srelok Pro would be my suggestion. I zero my 22 at 50 yds and use the app to compute my dope for 250yds all the time. Works great.