Re: Eley Sport .22LR
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Shiraz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Interesting that you zero'd with the top Mildot as your 25 yard aimpoint.
Most of the people I shoot with zero at 50 yards with the crosshairs, then use the dots below the crosshairs out to 150 yards, then start cranking the elevation knob to get to 200, 225 yards, etc.
for example with croshairs on target, 50 yard zero
first dot down is 75 yard
second dot down is 100
third dot down is 125 yards
4th dot is 140
where the verticle post gets thick is 150 yards
Eley Sport is the cheapest subsonic .22LR available, I think
how big are the 100 and 200 yard groups?
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A friend of mine who has the same scope as I do was telling me about the technique he used to zero his Mil-Dot scope (a .22LR also), and by golly it worked. It takes a bit of getting use to however.
The .22mag I zeroed for another friend/co-worker of mine, I zeroed at 50 yards on the cross hairs as you say above.
The 100 yard paper group measures 7/8th inches East to West x 1 3/8ths North to South.
At 200 yards I was only shooting at the reduced NRA steel silhouette Ram that measures 24" x 29". I was hitting it in the shoulder area.
The 150 yard steel coyote shots beneath the ear was probably the best metal grouping I had as you could actually see the lead splats grouping and growing under the ear. I didn't measure that area but I think it would be safe to say 3 maybe 4 inches, and that's rather a conservative guestimation since there's really no defined aiming point like on the paper.
I will add that my goal is to make the 'Cross Hairs' my 200 yard zero point (though 150 yards looks more favorable)... Basically, I just got bored shooting at paper, so I switched to the metal targets. I'll pick up back on the paper this weekend.
