11-24-2019, 08:42 PM
Ok, got the scope. Going to set it up on my 5.56x16" fraken carbine. While I await receipt of my new 6.5G upper.
The scope does indeed have only 40MOA of elevation and windage adjustment (160 1/4-MOA clicks, stop to stop).
As such, I am considering running the reticle down to one MOA off the bottom stop, and use a canted set of mount rings (Burris XTR Signature with various MOA ring-insert sets), and zeroing it at 100yds, slipping the turrets to zero, once sighted in.
The thought process is that the traj/poi will always be lower than the optical zero (except when shooting a target at 100 yards), which would nearly-always impute raising the reticle to push poi down. I'm thinking that adopting this approach, I should be able to get full use of the reticle's vertical field of adjustment enabling reticle-on-target out to the cartridge's 40MOA distance, and using hold-over for any distances from 40MOA to the bottom of the reticle's markings (or to the limit of the cartridge's Supersonic range, if less).
Does this sound like a reasonable approach? I can't conjure up a reason where I would want to have an ability to move the POI up above the 100yd zero'd POI (except for those rare instances where I may be shooting up or down a slope at a close target?).
Am I tracking true, or off muh rocker? What say ye?
-MHz
The scope does indeed have only 40MOA of elevation and windage adjustment (160 1/4-MOA clicks, stop to stop).
As such, I am considering running the reticle down to one MOA off the bottom stop, and use a canted set of mount rings (Burris XTR Signature with various MOA ring-insert sets), and zeroing it at 100yds, slipping the turrets to zero, once sighted in.
The thought process is that the traj/poi will always be lower than the optical zero (except when shooting a target at 100 yards), which would nearly-always impute raising the reticle to push poi down. I'm thinking that adopting this approach, I should be able to get full use of the reticle's vertical field of adjustment enabling reticle-on-target out to the cartridge's 40MOA distance, and using hold-over for any distances from 40MOA to the bottom of the reticle's markings (or to the limit of the cartridge's Supersonic range, if less).
Does this sound like a reasonable approach? I can't conjure up a reason where I would want to have an ability to move the POI up above the 100yd zero'd POI (except for those rare instances where I may be shooting up or down a slope at a close target?).
Am I tracking true, or off muh rocker? What say ye?
-MHz
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