.22lr Whats best zero range

fiestaman

well lads,anyone on ere that owns a .22lr what distance do ye zero with subs.

BELOWaverageIQ

50m is the short answer.
The rimfire range up in the midlands is set at 50m.

Cass

BELOWaverageIQ wrote: »

50m is the short answer..

Correct and right.

clivej

Your'll get lots of different answers but many will zero @50m/y and work out what the drop of the bullet will be out to the other ranges and hold over to get there.

Or use a drop chart that shows you what the bullet drop will be at a set distance. The drop chart works well with my CZ 22lr style and Eley and Laupa subs. Wind is 10mph.

ivanthehunter

I zero for 70yards on sub sonic ammo. This general gives me my first zero at 20 yards and i stay an inch high (+or-0.5") through 30, 40, 50, 60, and on the money at 70. Then you hitting low by 1", 3", 5" and 7" at 80yds, 90yds, 100ydss and 110yrds respectively!!

Now some like to keep the subsonic close to 50yards, this allows the shooter to change ammo types for a faster & flatter round and still have the new zero before the high velocity rounds goes back through the sound barrier!!
You will most probably have to dial in a new windage correction to place your reticule on the new impact point but these are quite small and can be noted and wrote somewhere on your kit. I found that the i get bets results if i stick with 40grain rounds.
You might find that the scope set up for a 22 zeroed at 50yds on subs will have yellow jackets hitting the horz mark at 77yards, albeit that they're hitting 2" left.. anyway you get the idea!

Its also a good idea to buy a little note book and record all your findings.
Some software will show you the overall bullet drop from a horz barrel and this will allow you to clearly see the differences between the different bullet types at any given distance but you'll still have to prove it by punching paper.


Although i zero at 70-75yards i will always check the vertical alignment at larger distances. It just happens that the field in which i check the zero is 130yards long so i shoot a 10 shot group and make any adjustment necessary!

Try Al Bal freeware software. try this link http://www.stevespages.com/page8b.htm

everypenny

I've got my telephone number (recorded adjustments rewuired on the sights) for every 10 meters from 20 to 120. I'd only be shooting at balloons over that. I printed it out on a small piece of paper and laminated it and attached it to the side of my rifle butt using an ipod armband which also acts as a nice chin rest.
When i see a target i work out its range by halfing or bracketing or other means and dial my sight in for that range. Easy as.
A good way to practice is with clay pigeons. Go target shooting with a buddy. Place them in pairs randomly through out your range area ensuring that safety is top of the list at all times. we normally use an abandoned quarry to do this, high walls all round. Take it in tirns to guess the ranges and take your shot. alternate the shot and see who correctly guesses the range first. Make sure you practice from heights to simulate shooting downhill, this seriously inteferes with dorect line range due to gravitaional effect and the fact that the round can travel further due to the fact that it can drop below the altitude you're firing from. i wouldn't shoot uphill for obvious safety reasons and the same usually applies in the field. make it into a competition for the price of a box of rounds or a pint or two.
Soon enough you'll be able to apply these principals to the field.

Glensman

I set mine to 72yards, because thats the distance the target is in the abandoned quarry where I zero.

If the snow would ever clear I intend on producing a drop chart as the lads said and putting it on the rifle butt.

I use CCI standard velocity and get tight groups at 72 yards...

johngalway

60 yards when I had a .22lr, just found that the handiest for me.

declan1980

clivej wrote: »

Your'll get lots of different answers but many will zero @50m/y and work out what the drop of the bullet will be out to the other ranges and hold over to get there.

Or use a drop chart that shows you what the bullet drop will be at a set distance. The drop chart works well with my CZ 22lr style and Eley and Laupa subs. Wind is 10mph.

are you sure you put in the right B.C. into that calculator?
.420 seems a bit high for a 40gr .22 bullet

ssl

75 yards with a CZ513 using American eagle high vel.
75 cos that was the max distance the rabbits were in the fields I started shooting in.
Plus 75 an easy number for calculate the number of clicks for zeroing. 3/4 of 100.

poulo6.5

declan1980 wrote: »

are you sure you put in the right B.C. into that calculator?
.420 seems a bit high for a 40gr .22 bullet

BC. of a .22lr 40gr depending on the bullet is between .09 & .149

declan1980

poulo6.5 wrote: »

BC. of a .22lr 40gr depending on the bullet is between .09 & .149

i was thinking as much. if you read the wind info on the chart its saying that a .22 has roughly the same wind drift as a .223

dos29

I was very recently making out one of these charts to match against my reticle myself.
Found info here- http://benchrest.com/showthread.php?34171-22-LR-bc
And then input that here- http://www.jbmballistics.com/cgi-bin/jbmtraj-5.1.cgi

Ended up with this which I'll be printing off soon. Just got the info for the LRX reticle from Nikko Stirling website, mainly increments on reticle and a picture all blended nicely in the paint program for an end product of........
22lr-print-out.jpg
A BC of .115 was used to achieve
22lr-trajectory4.jpg
(This is for Eley Subs, and it still has to be checked on paper targets )

FISMA

FiestaMan,
What's y'er game? What do you plan on shooting?

50ya is standard, however, I like to zero at 100ya. I find my game is usually taken at that range.

Always fun when I sight in the 22lr and the 30-06. From 50 - 100 ya with the 22lr there's about 5" of variance.

From 50 - 100ya, the only variance is whether I have had my morning cup of coffee.:D

Slan

yubabill

My rule of thumb for high velocity ammo is; zero at 25 yds, then fine-tune at 75 and assume 1" high at 50.

With subsonics, you need more precision but you will find 90-100yd shots easier than when using high velocity ammo, but only when there is little wind.

session savage

I got a Hawke Endurance 3-10 x 44 scope with a multi aim point reticle.
This scope was specifically designed for .22lr sub sonic rounds.
If you set zero at 75yds then each point down the reticle ads 25yds distance.
It works great for me.

Then again I always had my .22 set at 75yds so I.m used to it.

Just set your own zero to the most common range you shoot at.