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  1. I did a bad job of explaining the part at 4:16 about shooting to 1,000 yards. On most scopes, it won't make any difference. However, on some scopes like the one I'm using in this video, they only allow one rev of elevation adjustment. It's stopped at the top and bottom of the rev even though the scope has more adjustment available. So it's applicable on this scope but not on most scopes.

  2. I site my 3006 in at 50 yards its about 2.5 inches high at 100yard back dead on at 200 yards and about 3,5 low at 300 yards thats with 180 grain remington core lokt soft point works for me in maine and new hamshire.

  3. I totally agree with your statement on sight in on both. The only difference that I see is not only myself, but more importantly friends that hunt with one caliber only and actually know the drop . My neighbor has hunted with 270 his entire life (he's 58) He sights in at 1.5 high at 100 and puts meat in the freezer every year. Most people don't hunt with multiple calibers and even those that do are very aware of the bullet drop. Just my 2 cents.

  4. If you have a dialable scope zeroed at 100 and you dial to 200 then 200 is your zero. Same for 637. Zero at 100 and leave it set at MPBR for a quick shot. Same for zoom. Leave the scope at minimum magnification so you can see that quick shot. If you are worried about parallax leave it at MPBR also. Print a cheat sheet and tape it to the stock. Include 50 yd increments at likely conditions and MPBR setting and distance.

  5. Wandering scope is often the adjusting knobs fkin things up. If that happens on a leopold i feel like im smart buying a cheap.one with a good retical that i can get to know well and know my holdovers i never adjust and my zero sticks on a 120$ chinese scope.

  6. Hard to believe there’s really an argument about this. The comment section is full of people saying I do this or I do that. And I am right along with them. Most everybody is going to do what works for them and the environment they are hunting. As for me and the place I hunt I don’t even have a place to set up 200 yards. 50 yards works great for me. I can’t remember the last time I missed the neck shot.

  7. You need to do a video about reverse ballistics. I find it fascinating. If you dont have a chrony, just shoot the gun zero at a known distance and then shoot a few ather distance and then go to the Hornady ballistic app. Punch in your data and scroll to the distance you shot, change the velocity input until it matches the distance you shot at. And wala you have your velocity, and it teaches you more about your gun and ammo.
    Great channel by the way.

  8. During my elk hunt I keep my .340 Weatherby sighted in at 300 yards. That's 3.5 inches high at 100 yards, about 4 inches high at 200 yards, zeroed at 300 yards, and 10 inches low at 400 yards. If I have time to check the range and adjust my scope, I'll do it. I won't take a shot at game beyond 400 yards without taking time to check the range, adjust my scope, and to shoot from a well-set position.

  9. Zero For 200yds At 50yds, then windage won't be as much of a problem. Check a few sources with ballistics calculators, enter you height over bore, cartridge and ballistics profile of the bullet with the chronographed speed then get the readout in 25yd increments. If it's supposed to hit 0.8in. high at 50yds to zero at 200, then that's where you sight in.

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