.22 Zero

[Dr B 186]

I have always tended to zero at 25-28yds (typically the latter). Thats for .22. It has just always seemed to be a good distance for the calibre. I'm sure there are subtle differences if you do the math on your power, and pellet.

 

If you shoot a PCP, make sure you zero when in the sweetspot. If you set your scope up at 190 bar fill, you will become inaccurate after 10-20 shots or so as the power creeps up and so does your pellet.

Edited February 10, 2015 by Dr B

[David.evans 5,323]

Hairy b

Have you got chair gun , it's free from Hawke web site , and easy to use

But you do need poi at range , then you can have a play about with it

 

Dave

[David.evans 5,323]

Dr b

Not if the fifle is regulated

Dave

[Dr B 186]

Hi David

 

Oh yes, absolutely. I reckon if you know about regulators, you probably know about sweetspots anyway, but yes.

Edited February 11, 2015 by Dr B

[hairy biker 14]

Hairy b

Have you got chair gun , it's free from Hawke web site , and easy to use

But you do need poi at range , then you can have a play about with it

Dave

I've downloaded it dave but don't really understand it

[Mister Gain 1,764]

 

Hairy b

Have you got chair gun , it's free from Hawke web site , and easy to use

But you do need poi at range , then you can have a play about with it

Dave

I've downloaded it dave but don't really understand it

 

 

Have a look on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y56nwZxSnBc Si Pittaway explains it all very well.

[hairy biker 14]

 

 

Hairy b

Have you got chair gun , it's free from Hawke web site , and easy to use

But you do need poi at range , then you can have a play about with it

Dave

 

I've downloaded it dave but don't really understand it

Have a look on youtube

Si Pittaway explains it all very well.

Will take a look now

[secretagentmole 1,701]

I am with Simon, I followed his advice and my hunting became a lot easier as the reticles on my scopes worked better (Hawke SR12s). I zero my .22s at 25 metres.

[hairy biker 14]

I'm not sure if I can input my scopes reticle which is the Christmas style ladder on the mtc mamba lite

[John Stott 202]

Thirty yards for .22 and .177 all at the rifles sweet spot. Learn to use the hold over on each scope and store it in Mk.1 brain. I can't use Chairgun either, bloody apps for this and apps for that, getting out and fiddling is best. Knowing your gear. I don't swear often but my lad has driven me mad of late, with his Gaystate Mk.4 and his rangefinders. Think he was an FAC calling in airstrikes you would.

I use basic kit on five rifles, Hawke or BSA scopes and never a problem. I also bought a "See All" sight from a firm in Idaho last year, parallax free, no batteries and no focusing. You just line up a triangle point on your target. Mounted on an Ultra it is lethal out to fifty five yards. It is so good I am ordering one for the shotgun when the penny pile grows again.

 

Sorry old fella ranting a bit. I looked at Mamba scopes for this new HW100 I bought yesterday, thought they were well made. Anyway, chucked an old BSA Essentials on it this morning and its punching the same hole at thirty, doing sub one inch groups at sixty. And slotted the eggs off of the fence post at sixty five. So happy with that and still got some change in my pocket.

The lads talk a lot of sense on here I find ( most ) but it is all down to practice and knowing your kit. Once you get the recipe right stick with it and practice as much as you can.

Unless you own a Gaystate that is. Then you spend so much time fiddling with it the rabbits gone home for his tea

[Stoater 21]

Just watched the video on Chairgun by Mr. Pittaway. Yes, it seems clear and well put together. But, if like myself you are a computer ignoramus, you have as much chance of successfully using the programme as I have of flying! It may seem simple to most, but it pre-supposes a level of IT skill that I simply don't have. For now, at least.

[David.evans 5,323]

John Scott

 

That's a bit bold about day states mate ! Lol

And when your lad is used to the m4 .he'll be out shooting you so there

Atb mate

Dave

[pianoman 3,587]

simon, its interesting if im wrong but don't you use the same for .177 too?

To be honest Craig it depends on what I'm going after. 25 metres is good for general woodland shooting for pigeons and squirrels and static shooting in

 

If I'm after rabbits in open fields with .22 I zero out to 30 metres if the breez is slight to non-existant.

 

40 metres with .177

[David.evans 5,323]

Pianomans

Bang on with 40 m with 177

I do 40 yards just because it's easer on hold over with the mill dots

And works out for me at 5 yard increments on the 1/2 mill dot

Dave

[Rez 4,961]

40 meters with a 177?! Sorry but is that what's being said here? Zero at 40 metres?

 

Having just had a quick look at chair gun, using my PS @ 11.2, if I zero at 40 yards, the pellet does not leave the area of the first mil dot down and first mil dot up through its path all the way too 53 yards and it enters it at 12 yards. So, bearing in mind my magnification of 7 x... It could be quite interesting.