zero my rife and using turrets

[muledeerhntr]

I have a late bull elk hunt and I need to be good out to about 500 yards, I have a 300win mag with a vortex viper;my scope has turets and ffp. If I zero my scope at 200 how do I know how many clicks to use at 300, 400, 500?!? Please help!

[Kaffer62]

Google ballistic calculator and input your information. That will give you a starting point, but you still have to shoot to make sure it's accurate to your specified load.

 

Strelok on android works good and hornady has one on their website as well

[wapitibob]

I have a late bull elk hunt and I need to be good out to about 500 yards, I have a 300win mag with a vortex viper;my scope has turets and ffp. If I zero my scope at 200 how do I know how many clicks to use at 300, 400, 500?!? Please help!

 

you SHOOT it

That tends to help you see what size groups you're getting out there too. Based on what I see at the range, not many have any business shooting at 200 let alone 500. 1" per 100 yards of distance is the max 5 shot group size I would accept. That would be 5" @ 500.

[Adicted]

download the SHOOTER app on your phone...$9.99

[Big Browns]

I love the shooter program!

[muledeerhntr]

 

download the SHOOTER app on your phone...$9.99

^ This. Awesome app. Also Strelok Pro. Free Strelok should work out to 500 easy. I have all three on my phone. I use Shooter the most, and seems to be the most consistent for me.But NOTHING beats shooting your own gun and learning your own dope. Remember on the apps, garbage in, garbage out. If you don't input all of the correct info, you will not get correct drops.

 

download the SHOOTER app on your phone...$9.99

^ This. Awesome app. Also Strelok Pro. Free Strelok should work out to 500 easy. I have all three on my phone. I use Shooter the most, and seems to be the most consistent for me.But NOTHING beats shooting your own gun and learning your own dope. Remember on the apps, garbage in, garbage out. If you don't input all of the correct info, you will not get correct drops.

Well if my elivation down hear is 2000ft and up in the hills 5000 will throw things off?

[muledeerhntr]

If the elavation is different how will I know?

[Coues assassin]

I have the exact same scope but on a 7mm I just started getting sighted in for the first time Monday. This was my procedure: bore sighted, shot at 24.5 yards, set zero at 100 yards, used ballistics calculator to approximate 200, shot 200, made final adjustments for 200 (which was very close to what the calculator gave me) and do that for 300-100000000000000. This is my first time ever shooting a scope with turrets so not sure if that's the best way to go about it but I was finishing the day off with 1 1/2"groups at 400 which I still need to work on! Good luck

[DesertBull]

Not trying to be rude, but If you are just now trying to get this to work you are too late. Zero it for 200 and get within 300 yards. Try again next year. Sorry, you can't just look it up on the web and start shooting at living things. You did not even say what your MV or bullet BC is.

[ThomC]

Based on your apparent lack of knowledge you need to stay under 300yds. Give the Elk a break rather than wounding one.

[trphyhntr]

yes rushing into it cost me a 30" buck. fml.

[Big Browns]

If the elavation is different how will I know?

 

Use an Altimeter

[Guest 300ultramag.]

zero it at 500.

 

 

 

. your whole rig shoot different in 27 elevation and temps... I agree on closing that gap

[STOMP442]

Yes it will be off. Altitude, pressure and temperature will all have an effect on ballistic performance. The easy way is once you have a ballistic chart that closely matches your actual shot data is to calculate another chart for a specific elevation and compare the two to see how much things actually change. The sure way is to actually shoot at distance at a certain elevation and record actual shot data.

[Hoss50]

Like a lot of people said. If you havn't been behind the gun practicing at 500 yards for awhile you have no business taking a shot that far on an animal. Its not fair to the animal when you make a bad hit because of lack of practice or skill. I have been working with my rifle and loads decently for almost 2 years and I still am only confident in myself and rifle to about 500 yards and even at that range it would have to be a good circumstance to take that shot.

 

My goal for this rifle and scope though is only to be able to take up to about a 600 yard shot confidently. At this point I am confident to between 400-500 yards and I have shot hundreds of rounds through this rifle and scope combo. If you have no trigger time on the gun and the load then the responsible thing to do would be keep the ranges to about 300 and sight it in at 200. A 300 Win with a reasonable load sighted at 200 wouldn't be that low at 300 that you shouldn't be able to figure out the drop with a calculator and make a reasonable correction in your scope. Beyond 300 the bullets really start to drop and knowing what your rifle and round will do is key to taking quality shots.