sighting in for tree rats

BEAR;

Use the higher speed HP ammo, such as the Winchester
PowerPoints that work so well for me. Sight in a 50
yards I'd think. That's going to be pretty close to your
longest shot in thick woods, no? I don't see mid-range
rise being much more than an inch at most though I could
be wrong. But at 50 & under with a muzzle velocity of
1250 fps or so, it's hard to imagine that you wouldn't
be just fine.

There's Browning stuff available, advertised 1435 fps
with a 40 grain HP. Aguila also offers some high speed
hunting ammo too, though I've never had any. The
Winchester 1435/40 HP is supposed to be exactly the same
stuff as the Browning, just headstamped differently. I
think testing one would be good data for t'other in any
case. Avoid the super-speed ammo though, it has a longer
case, the CCI Stingers being an example. Nobody reports
good accuracy with the stuff in the CZ chamber.

Most important is just getting ammo the gun wants to
shoot. One-hole at 50, or close to it, should be
possible, hopefully with some high-speed fodder.

I went to an on-line ballistics calculator & plugged in
some guestimate info for B/C & velocity. I got the
following:

10 yards -.07". 20 yards -.02". 30 yards .10".
40 yards .20". 50 yards 0.0. 60 yards -.50"
If that's anywhere close to what you wind up using you
should be good to go. Guestimate info based on the
PowerPoints.

900F

Edited by CB900F

Good thoughts.

this CZ shoots lights out with---REMINGTON Golden
Bullets, sub MOA.

These are hollow points. I usually take head shots
only.

CZ rule.

That extra .20 of an inch is the difference of a
lobotomy and cleaning it's teeth. May have to ask it to
sit still so an accurate ranging can be had!

I thought PA passed a law allowing semiauto' for hunting?

My range finder doesn't have slant range correction capability. I just
range the base of the tree since gravity is only acting for the most part
on the horizontal portion of the bullets flight path.


DD

PA just passed the buck from legislature to f\Game
Commision. dah!

yep, shooting straight up the gravity effect is zero
deviation from a straight line. No drop in your scope!

I don't know about that. If gravity weren't pulling on it, escape velocity wouldn't be very fast.

"Gravity DOES pull on it."

Well of course it does, Bear. That was the point of my tongue-in-cheek post.

BEAR wrote: Gravity DOES pull on it. But it is pulling it straight down, vertical. So the bullet actually slows down faster. BUT the bullet path is a straight line; no ballistic trajectory, no parabolic arc.

Close.. The bullet retains a stable flight, but does arc to the west. The world does continue turning.

*sigh....someones going for a level I just know it.....

.....first man made object presumably launched into space? AKA Karman line threshold. 100km above sea level


Edited by jsgbearpaws1

If you are in Montana or Wyoming and look straight up,
while one would think, as Cascade said, that it would
'appear' to arc west.

But most wins there are strong 40+, and from the west.
So unless you duck fast it will come down and hit you in
the eye.