Thread: Drop chart help

Originally Posted by Nathan F

Yeah I dunno. I started getting into LR shooting in 05. I have shot animals and targets at reasonable distances. It’s easy to say I won’t shoot past 350 but put a decent stag in front of you and with no other option you’d have a crack. Run your load through a chrony. Get the thing bang on at 200 yds and make your chart from there. It’s better to be “OCD” about things like this.
At least if an opportunity did show up you know exactly where your bullets going. You kind of owe that to a deer to kill it as cleanly as possible.

I quite agree, and also my style, but we can only go on what the OP has told us and answer his queries accordingly, and that was with a limit of 320m. This limit brings other options into the mix that I wanted to lay out in terms of the pros and cons and requirements as factually as I could without really guiding one way or the other. If he is going to be tempted beyond 320m then I agree that he will have little choice but to use a dial-up scope in combination with a look up table that should be verified from his actual drops. Quibbling over ±40mm variation in POI because of the unverified muzzle velocity seems pointless if shooting ability will be limitings hits to the proverbial barn door. Too much we don't know here. At the end of the day I would point the OP in the direction of the Dinner Plate Challenge as this brings everything into the mix to give a maximum ethical kill range.