I have a Vortex PST 4-16 FFP MRAD and i was wondering if i could tell how many feet, inches, meters my bullet dropped. my scope is zeroed at 100 yards. Example, i was shooting 1000 yards at 5,300 feet using a hold up of 7 mrads, how much bullet drop is that?
Rifle Scopes Figuring out bullet drop from scope hold
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1 mil = 1 yard at 1000 yards, the beauty of mils.
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7 x 3 ft = 21 ft drop. (2 building stories... Pretty cool, huh)
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Isn't there ~3.5 inches per mil at 100 yards.....so ~35 inches?
This doesn't sound right.....
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yes it's on, I am only trying to confirm what you have said. Pretty funny though "hello? anyone out there?"
OP,
BTW, a 7 mil hold does not mean you have a barrel attitude that will produce a bullet path which will intersect line of sight at 1000 yards. Most .308's would require about a 40 inch holdover. Since a "about" is not enough information to get a good hit, if time permitted, adjustment of the scope's elevation turret off of a ballistics table created for the actual average velocity of the bullet would assure a better result.
BTW, a 7 mil hold does not mean you have a barrel attitude that will produce a bullet path which will intersect line of sight at 1000 yards. Most .308's would require about a 40 inch holdover. Since a "about" is not enough information to get a good hit, if time permitted, adjustment of the scope's elevation turret off of a ballistics table created for the actual average velocity of the bullet would assure a better result.
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+1 to what everybody has already said. But why do you need bullet drop? Probably the most useless bit of information on any ballistic calculator. YMMV...
