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If huntin' turkeys with a rifle where legal offends you, this thread ain't for you...
For the rest of you... 85gr 32cal pistol bullet (Hornady XTP) moving at 1000fps ... accurate enough for head shots to 40 yards, maybe 50 (gotta load more up and test) ... figure non-destructive enough for body shots to 100 yards (still goin' 875fps), which is certainly a possibility.
Stuck on where to zero. Sight is a 2moa red dot, so no other reference points for easy hold over in the sight window. Plugging my numbers into a online trajectory calculator:
A 25 yard zero gives me dead on or up to a half inch low out to 40 yards, but at 55 yards it is 2" low, 5" at 75 yards, and 12" at 100 yards.
A 50 yard zero has me .75" high at 30 yards and 9" low at 100.
A 60 yard zero doesn't get me much - 1.25" high at 35 yards and 7.5" low at 100.
A 75 yard zero though gives me 2" high at 40 yards and only 4.75" down at 100.
If this were my Ruger 44 rifle, or a 30-30 or something and I were chasing deer or pigs in the brush and scrub, I'd zero it at 75 and be done and ready for deer or pig out to 100 yards. But it ain't.
Given that most likely birds will be within 50 if not 20 yards, I'm waffling between the 50 yard zero and the 25 yard zero.
Thoughts?
For the rest of you... 85gr 32cal pistol bullet (Hornady XTP) moving at 1000fps ... accurate enough for head shots to 40 yards, maybe 50 (gotta load more up and test) ... figure non-destructive enough for body shots to 100 yards (still goin' 875fps), which is certainly a possibility.
Stuck on where to zero. Sight is a 2moa red dot, so no other reference points for easy hold over in the sight window. Plugging my numbers into a online trajectory calculator:
A 25 yard zero gives me dead on or up to a half inch low out to 40 yards, but at 55 yards it is 2" low, 5" at 75 yards, and 12" at 100 yards.
A 50 yard zero has me .75" high at 30 yards and 9" low at 100.
A 60 yard zero doesn't get me much - 1.25" high at 35 yards and 7.5" low at 100.
A 75 yard zero though gives me 2" high at 40 yards and only 4.75" down at 100.
If this were my Ruger 44 rifle, or a 30-30 or something and I were chasing deer or pigs in the brush and scrub, I'd zero it at 75 and be done and ready for deer or pig out to 100 yards. But it ain't.
Given that most likely birds will be within 50 if not 20 yards, I'm waffling between the 50 yard zero and the 25 yard zero.
Thoughts?