Thread: The trouble with holdovers

I suspect you also developed a good eye for estimating range as well if your using a mildot style reticle

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

I suspect you also developed a good eye for estimating range as well if your using a mildot style reticle

You are correct, 9 years of shooting central Otago rabbits with talleys into the tens of thousands has turned range estimates into second nature. Also shooting the same farms has given me landmarks that I have shot from before or have a good estimation of the drop at that distance. My scope is just a cheap Nikko Stirling but it has hash marks on the reptile. What those marks mean i have no fucken idea, however I know just over 3 marks down gets me rabbit accurate at 190mtrs. It's hardly scientific but it is effective for my style of shooting.

Originally Posted by viper

You are correct, 9 years of shooting central Otago rabbits with talleys into the tens of thousands has turned range estimates into second nature. Also shooting the same farms has given me landmarks that I have shot from before or have a good estimation of the drop at that distance. My scope is just a cheap Nikko Stirling but it has hash marks on the reptile. What those marks mean i have no fucken idea, however I know just over 3 marks down gets me rabbit accurate at 190mtrs. It's hardly scientific but it is effective for my style of shooting.

I am also unsure of hash marks on the reptile, but I agree with your methods. With my .22 I have simply checked drop in 10yd increments after 50yds. No calculator or MV needed, just real world data from simple real world testing. At that point the maths is redundant.

a commercial fence batten is very consistant in length..... the distance plantation trees or vines are planted apart is also consistant...once you learn what they look like through scope at different given distances your half way there.