Happy Myles
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Ontario, when are you leaving for Africa and for how long. Are you going to the same place in South Africa? Are you going alone?
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I too would rather zero at 200 and hold over for a 300 yard shot than zero at 300 and try to remember to hold low for a 150 yard shot. I take a lot more shots from 100-200 than at 300 plus.
I see you haven't spent much time in NW Ontario! It's relatively flat and heavily forested here. Any clear cut units are either an obstacle course of slash left on the ground or quickly grown over with chest high poplar/jack pine.The ridiculously talented problem solver that I am says maybe find a place to shoot as far as you want to while hunting.
JESUS H FRIKKIN CHRIST. just when I though there could not be a dumber thread than the burning bucket of human feces in your campfire..I see you haven't spent much time in NW Ontario! It's relatively flat and heavily forested here. Any clear cut units are either an obstacle course of slash left on the ground or quickly grown over with chest high poplar/jack pine.
Don't let the door hit you in the arse.Amazed this thread reached 32...
Onto another. The internet forum life cycle.
what he saidWith limited time, distance at the range, and MV data, I would just zero it 2" high at 100yds. I did that for many years with multiple rifles and chamberings.
I've never heard of a PH that doesn't make you zero your rifle upon arrival at a distance consistent with the most common shot distance for their hunting geography. Given that, +1.5"@100y will be plenty close for you to tweak "in country" if needed.
A Labradar solves the short range problem - with a good velocity number, drop is simple math. Of course, for practice (especially practice with wind) there is no substitute for a range long enough to replicate hunting conditions.Well, it was all for naught. I got a good group a little high at 100 yards two days before I left. First afternoon in Kimberly we went to the range and one shot went the same place so that was good enough. Next morning we went for hartbeest and everything went to hell. After inexplicably missing one nice bull three times, I was finally able to get one, hitting him poorly three times, no shot further than 200 metres. What the hell? PH knew something was wrong. He'd seen me shoot very well the previous trip. That evening we went back to the range and my gun was all over the paper at 100 yards. I stopped wasting ammo and switched to PH's spare (and later he let me use his very sweet personal gun). That night I couldn't sleep fretting over that damn Springfield. Got up and took it out of the case. After going over it, I grabbed it by the barrel to put back in the case. Something didn't feel right. I grasped the fore end and ... the barrel wiggled! It had somehow come loose from bedding. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control I didn't get the action and new barrel rebedded until three days before leaving. I suspect the epoxy wasn't thoroughly cured by the time I arrived in Africa. It's shooting good now. Hornady bullets arrived two days ago. Anxious to get them loaded and up to the range before going to Montana for deer/elk opener. I now have 200 bullets, a keg of powder, and 250 primers so I should have plenty of time to get any bugs worked out. Too bad I don't have a decent range to work with. There's a local rifle range club but I want no part of joining with all the drama going on out there.