barrel or scope?

[ghillies 209]

and its a luverly morning, brass monkies type and rain on the way, but, just to cheer things up.

 

so you measured the distance to your target to zero, do you sit on the mark or have the barrel end on the mark?

 

'from the barrel or the scope''.

[Buster321c 1,010]

Barrel .

[j j m 6,627]

Barrel

[Lewis Ste 245]

Where I sit as I don't take half a step but so the barrel is where I'd lazored it from

[pianoman 3,589]

Scope.

Assuming you use an Adjustable Optic (AO) front-focusing, variable magnification scope.

 

It's the one bit of the rifle that has to be manually adjusted to focus the distance sharply, read the precise range accurately (after you've marked your yards/metres on the focus ring where the range distances fall into focus at the max magnification.) and zero the barrel to your preferred zero point.

 

Scope or Barrel? Both will work for a shooter's needs and clearly, they do!

 

But, when you think about it, distances are a set-constant factor in our accuracy solution and the scope is the one item of your rig that doesn't change how it reads these distances. Only the rifle, its barrel-length and calibre your scope is mounted to, does from time to time.

 

Just my way of doing it.

Simon

[ghillies 209]

i've tried both and ended doing aboout the middle tbh.. one of the silly i've done for years then though about and had a derrrrr?

 

barrel i'd i've thought, but then again, you guesdistance from your self so from scope crept into mind.

 

the pellets leaves the barrel and the tragectry starts, meanwhile the scopes just observing?

[zini 1,939]

I believe that the correct answer is where the turrets are on the scope as this is where the scope line of sight is formed (LOS), but I just stand and laze the target then move forwards and backwards until I'm at 25 metres.

 

With the LRF you can be then just short of + / - 1 metre range plus what ever the accuracy of the laser is.

 

I still get very accurate results doing it this way and the reason is explained below.

 

The difference from muzzle to butt of the rifle in pellet flight time cannot really be measured in terms of your shooting ability so in practice it makes no odds.

 

if your wanting to be absolute then in theory it does make a difference but your talking about a distance of around 3 foot max which for a projectile travelling at 600 fps equates to something like 1 / 200th of a second.

 

If using a .177 at 800 fps then your looking at 1/ 266 of a second, faster than you blink.

 

Si.

Edited December 7, 2012 by zini

[ghillies 209]

that'll do me ty.