Thread: Pleasantly surprised. Time to hunt with irons?

Decided I'd take the wee scope off my A2 carbine today and see how she went with irons. Lined up at 100m (the scope on my Kimber is in cm@100m so I'm a euro metre man now..)
Wanted it to be about 3" high at 100 for a zero at 200 with the federal blue box 150gr, I know it shoots this ammunition lights out as I shot a tiny little ragged hole group with a 4x scope on it the day I got it. I had a good rest shooting off bags off the back of my ute and conditions were really nice if not a little bright and warm. First shot went bang on with the bull elevation wise but a couple inches to the right, adjusted the sights and shot another and was slightly higher and a little less right so adjusted again a bit more this time and figured that since it was difficult to even see the bull at 100m I could use outside of the front sight hood as a reference point also. Fired again and checked with binos and was a little low still but bang on left to right so I decided to fire two more and see if I could get a group, again lining up carefully and using the hood as a second reference point. Bang, bang. Walked up on target and was very pleasantly surprised! I do wonder if trying to adjust higher again to get a full 3" high may be a wasted exercise and I'm better just practising and attempting to repeat my "beginners luck" and then practising shooting at various distances anyhow. I'd like to be able to confidently take a chamois or fallow sized animal at 250m and if that all works out then I'll be taking the Sako into the hills this summer. I guess the idea like shooting a recurve bow is to shoot "instinctively" and make adjustments within your sight picture based on your instinct at a given distance.