GUNS Magazine July 1957

tions of the rear sight. Suppose, for example,
'your three shots grouped 4"' high and 3" to
the left. With a scope graduated to the
quarter minute of angle a change of 16 clicks
down and 12 clicks to the right would center
the next group. The sighting-in targets
marked with 1" squares simplify sighting in.
IRING just three shots is a nice, inexpen-
F sive way to finish off bore sighting. But
there is a pretty important ballistic reason to
limit the amount of shooting. Light hunting
rifle barrels will seldom shoot to the same
point of aim when hot as when cold. Every
first shot fired at- game will be through a
dead cold barrel, so your sight setting should
be from a cold barrel. Firing one fouling
shot, then three sight-checking shots a few
minutes apart for group, will avoid heating
the barrel and will give you the proper sight
setting for game.
. Above all, zero your rifle with the ammunition
(brand, bullet weight and type) you
intend to use while hunting. Don't use cheap
152 grain M2 ammo in your '-06 for sightingin
purposes, than switch to 180 grain factory
softpoints for hunting. They may print just
enough differently to cost you a nice buck.
With the flat trajectory of present day,
high velocity cartridges it is a waste of a
rifle's potential to sight it in "dead on" at
100 yards. Regardless of whether you expect
to take a whitetail buck in a Michigan
swamp at 60 yards, or a big muley at 200 or
even 300 yards across some mountain meadow,
it is best to zero your musket a little high
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at 100. A good, practical sight setting will
be one that will group your shots about 2"
high and will eliminate the necessity of hav-
ing to "guesstimate" the amount of hold-
over to connect at longer ranges.
If, for example, your favorite deer rifle is
the time-honored 30-30, a sight setting of 2"
high at 100 yards will put your 2000 feet per
second, 170 grain slug dead-on at 150. This
same sight setting is practical for all of the
low-velocity deer cartridges such as the .32
Special, the .35 Rem., and the .25-35.
On the other hand, a scope-sighted 30-06
driving a 150 grain soft-point at 2800 feet per
second should be sighted-in to group about
3" high at 100 yards. This setting will be
dead center at 250 and about 6" low at 300.
Rifles which push a bullet along at 2400 to
2800 feet per second fall into this same
category. With such a zero, forget abut
hold-over at all ranges up to and including
250 yards. Remember, the majority of deer
are killed well within this range. With the
real hot numbers-rifles with 3000 feet per
second plus velocity-sight-in to group your
shots out to 300 yards without holdover.
Whether you've just bought a new rifle,
mounted a new receiver or scope sight on
your smoke-pole, or perhaps borrowed a
buddy's rifle, a preliminary job - of bore-
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