Thread: VX3i CDS scope advice please

Originally Posted by dannyb

Except for my rimfire I sight all my rifles in for 200 yards seems to be pretty standard practice, generally anything inside 250 yards is in trouble without having to worry about dialing or hold over too much, you could leave it dead on at 100 but it's not hard to work out how high it should be at 100 to be dead on at 200, then just confirm it at 200 once you have it right.

I have never really heard of 200 yards being a standard zero distance but if it works for you all good.
Before dial up became a thing a lot of people would sight in a standard centre fire to have a + or - 3" point blank range. This generally put a rifle around 2.5" high at 100 yards with a zero in the late 200s. The flatter shooting cartridges could go out to over 300 before they went more than 3" low. One of Nick Harveys books has a good table for 3" and 4" PBRs for different cartridges.
I really liked the VX3 I had but I don't consider a 6.6m FOV @100 yards (on 4.5x) great. I used mine on a 300wm and only ever shot one animal at less than 300 yards with it but still was not that happy as the country I hunted could occasionally offer a surprise shot at much closer range. Personal preference of course but I feel a lot more comfortable with what I am using now which has nearly double that FOV on it's lowest power.