What distance to zero angled iron sights?

Tharpinator · Nov 25, 2012

Scott Hearn said:
Very much more of this 90 degree nonsense and I bet they get popular!

Until somone else makes something better, which I'm betting will be a while because Todd Hodnet is so far ahead of the rest of the world in long range, I'll only buy optics with Horus reticles. They just make so much sense when you start holding for range and wind at the same time. Waaaaay faster than dialing. But thats getting away from 3 gun stuff, they dont deal with enough range to really have to hold much.

KurtM · Nov 25, 2012

So they teach a 1.5 mil hold off for 90 degree shooting, but what do they teach is the hold off for drop?

Tharpinator · Nov 25, 2012

KurtM said:
So they teach a 1.5 mil hold off for 90 degree shooting, but what do they teach is the hold off for drop?

Depends on the range and at what distance you zeroed....

My gun at school was zeroed at 100 meters. And I used a 1.7 mil hold at 300 meters. So to make a 300 meter shot I would hold 1.5 mils of "windage" and 1.7 mils of elevation. Now say you were only shooting 200, your hold would still be 1.5 for windage, but only like .8 mils for elevation.

silver star · Nov 25, 2012

While I figure how to convert mils to inch or MOA would 100 yd be same windage and approx .4 mils elevation?
This would have been good to know making the head shot thru the pallet yesterday.

WillR · Nov 25, 2012

Tharpinator said:
But thats getting away from 3 gun stuff, they dont deal with enough range to really have to hold much.

I've shot to 600 this year in 3-gun matches. There's a little hold over with the good old mouse gun out there.

Tharpinator · Nov 26, 2012

Michael J said:
While I figure how to convert mils to inch or MOA would 100 yd be same windage and approx .4 mils elevation?
This would have been good to know making the head shot thru the pallet yesterday.

There are 3.44 inches in one mil. So for quick on the fly math, just multiply by 3.5. As for a hold at 100 yards, if you zero at 100, then there would be no elevation hold at all.