why are you not using the 200grXTP for all your deer hunting instead of the 300
dmurphy - I don't trust it enough to take 200 yard shots. My max will be 100. I'd consider 150, but don't have that distance to try at the range. A target doesn't move, is black on white background, I have the sun behind me, at a bench, on bags. I'm not convinced that the 200 grain bullet with 100 RS is a deer killer at 200 yds even wereI shooting scoped. As for choosing the 300 to hunt with, it is the most accurate bullet I've found for this gun at 100yds., so far. I've tried 200's, 240, 260 and 300's. I can't say it really dislikes anything. Maybe long sabots. Before this gun, 90% of the deer I've killed with MZ were with a 370 maxiball, 10% PRB. Longest shot 85 yds. I guess I want to see a beast expire from a 300 grain saboted bullet before going lighter. That makes it a personal problem doesn't it?[&o]
Yes, the 1.5" adjustment at 100 would lower the 200 yard POI 3" using the same hold you used to shoot the groups posted. The adjustment is to the sight so it will affect all loads the same. If you were holding at the bottom of the circle the adjustment would put you 5 to 6" high with the same hold.
On the sight adjustment topic, if a bullet stikes 1.5" high at 100 and -6" low at 200, wouldn't lowering the 100 POI to zero, lower the 200 to -12"? See, I don't know where the 200 grain bullets are grouping at 100, nor where the 300 grain bullets are grouping at 200. I think maybe you didn't realize I was mixing bullets/ranges in my post? I'm guessing the bullets have different arcs and that lowering the 300's 1.5" at 100, will result in something other than -3" at 200 with the 200 grain bullets.