25 or 50 yard zero for NRL/PRS
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At 25, there's practically no effect from wind and other environmental factors. However, some scopes can't get parallax free at 25, which can present an issue. Most optics can get parallax free at 50 yards and many ranges have benches for that distance so it makes zeroing at 50 yards the convenient solution. It's one reason that I use a 50 yard zero with my two rifles, the other being that my one optic will only get parallax free down to 50 yards so there's that.
Trajectory wise, a 25 yard and 50 yard zero are the same, but at 50 yards the .22 can start to become affected by environmental factors like wind and potentially build in errors that move you away from that "perfect" zero. Down range this might manifest itself into your wind dope being slightly off, however with both my guns being zeroed at 50 yards I have not run into any major issues and have done pretty well in the local match series the past couple of years. Take that for what it's worth.
If anyone was too lazy to read through that and skipped to the end, I think millennials label this "TL/DR": if you have the ability to zero at 25 yards, go for it. If not, 50 yards will work just fine.
Trajectory wise, a 25 yard and 50 yard zero are the same, but at 50 yards the .22 can start to become affected by environmental factors like wind and potentially build in errors that move you away from that "perfect" zero. Down range this might manifest itself into your wind dope being slightly off, however with both my guns being zeroed at 50 yards I have not run into any major issues and have done pretty well in the local match series the past couple of years. Take that for what it's worth.
If anyone was too lazy to read through that and skipped to the end, I think millennials label this "TL/DR": if you have the ability to zero at 25 yards, go for it. If not, 50 yards will work just fine.
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Doesn’t matter. 25, 30, 35, 50 are all widely used and accepted.
Obviously the closer you are, the less chance wind was a factor in your zero.
Obviously the closer you are, the less chance wind was a factor in your zero.
The wind is a good point. Think I might stop by one of the near by 25yard indoor ranges.
Trick I learned from DThomas: zero for elevation at 50, zero for wind at 25.
I used to use 50, but after reading some of the reasoning between 25 and 50, I decided to go 25.
25 and 50 are so close most of the time in terms of elevation, so you may as well go 25 to eliminate wind factor.
25 and 50 are so close most of the time in terms of elevation, so you may as well go 25 to eliminate wind factor.
