Originally Posted by edmehlig
Van, not bad shooting at ALL!! While I know the impact would be lower, I wonder if the groups would have shrunk if you used one of the other points on the crosshair?
You're probably right
Ed. The group
might have been a little tighter using the crosshairs rather than an undefined point along the vertical axis of the crosshairs. But because I was using the midpoint between the lower crosshatch and the beginning of the thick part of the crosshair, I was able to pin it down fairly tight.
Originally Posted by
ronlaughlin
.... Another option would be to twist the elevation dial up for the 200 yard shot, which is what some of us do regularly. ...... Yes, i know, you old timers hate moving scope dials, once you have the rifle sighted in.
I hear you
Ron. Had I more time for some additional shooting I probably would have made the adjustment. Maybe next time. But I would never be fooling around with the dial in a hunting situation. So I wanted to see how the BDC functioned.
I use the free ballistic calculator at Handloads.com. It's really close to the one you posted. The only quirk is it doesn't have a print option, so you have to do a screen capture and save it to a picture file.
