Thread: Zeroing 7mm08 tomorrow - advice?

Originally Posted by Spudattack

Where are you doing this?

What ammo you using? I can do you a quick, rough drop chart if you want to smack some gongs out further for a play.

At a mate's place. It's safe etc. I would appreciate a drop chart. Ammo is Hornady SST.

https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/r...performance#!/

Originally Posted by Spudattack

What rifle is it?

Tikka, sorry to be so boring

Thanks for for the replies. I should have said in my opening post that I have been rimfire shooting regularly for the last 2.5 years and take scope zeroing etc pretty seriously.

@MightyBoosh this is what use for my tikka 7mm08 using sst
yards inches
100 1.5
150 0.9
200 0
250 2.8
300 7
350 12.7
400 20.2
450 29.2
500 40.6

Originally Posted by Mathias

Its likely to shoot to the left, so take an extra side step to the right to compensate.

ha..... and make sure the target isnt stapled too high..... like that other poor short bugger .....

Originally Posted by MightyBoosh

At a mate's place. It's safe etc. I would appreciate a drop chart. Ammo is Hornady SST.

https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/r...performance#!/

No worries

This should be roughly right for 100m (110y) zero.



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It's done. Zeroed at 90 metres which was convenient for where I was shooting.

I've been using the hornady sst for ten plus years now and have had great results, have found them to be a accurate round and as long as i do my part they stop animals. Also used the gmx when i coundn't get any sst and same results.

Originally Posted by MightyBoosh

It's done. Zeroed at 90 metres which was convenient for where I was shooting.

Thats all good, but im sure like most of us, you will start seeing deer out a bit further and you cannot get closer to them, you will really be best served then by having the POI 2.5 inches higher than your aim point then. It means that the closer shots, say 100, you will hit it 2.5" higer in the shoulder (that doesnt matter at all) but you will still hit them bang on out to 250-275 odd without even having to think about it. A zero dead on at 90M is quite limiting in my opinion.

Originally Posted by GWH

Thats all good, but im sure like most of us, you will start seeing deer out a bit further and you cannot get closer to them, you will really be best served then by having the POI 2.5 inches higher than your aim point then. It means that the closer shots, say 100, you will hit it 2.5" higer in the shoulder (that doesnt matter at all) but you will still hit them bang on out to 250-275 odd without even having to think about it. A zero dead on at 90M is quite limiting in my opinion.

Sadly, not too many deer in Northland, and not too many >100m shots in my limited experience so far, mainly bush hunting.

Mightyboosh,,I have my 7mm08 zeroed at 150m,this gives me 1 inch high at 100m and 1 1/4 inch low at 200m and 2 3/4 inches low at 250m,
I am using hornady 139gr interlock sp though,

Even bush hunting, I've always zeroed my rifles at 200 yards. GWH covered it pretty well. Most scopes are 1/4" per click and that also has to be taken in to consideration if trying to zero a rifle on a target that's set on a range that is 100m or more which many are.

I can take good advice, so noted, thanks. Finding somewhere to zero at 200 metre might be a little more tricky for me.

If your scope is decent and 1/4in click adjusting @ 100m you should just have to move it 8 clicks up and you will be 2in higher than now,good to go.