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    Quote Originally Posted by Fisherman View Post
    I didn't express myself well, I put the new Burris on the other night, quickly set up a 1.5 inches high at 100 yards, then back to 600 yards to dial in 11moa. Turns out I'm a good 6 inches low so I factored 1.047 for true moa rather than an inch, which takes me from 44 to 46 clicks (shooter is great for this)

    Three of six inches found. But next time I will take a board out and measure exactly what I get from 48 clicks (12moa). There was potentially a downdraft involved in the shots, I might naturally give away an inch in my setup etc. so I'm going to mess around quite a bit finding what I think is the best setting at 600yards.
    After that the zero at 100 yards (and 400 yards) is what it is within reason but I need to know those elevations for future reference.

    What I'm doing is minimizing any dialing errors inside 600 yards to the point they aren't relevant on deer sized game. It will involve multiple nights of shooting so I'm gonna get a pretty good handle if the scope dials repeatedly enough to do the job.

    What I'm saying is if you do some work a mid range scope can get the job done. Having said that, I think that 600 yards on an animal is a long way, 500 is challenging and 400 is the very doable with a bit of work.
    The best way is to have your hundred yard zero smack on.
    Then with what info you have eg bc zero and estimated speed is to then shoot out to 600 then adjust so your hitting smack on your elevation.
    You then enter that info of adjusted elevation into you validation software in shooter and it will adjust for real world velocities.
    This is a very simplified version that will work for you.

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