sniper rifle question?

Question

i got a high powered pellet gun with a scope on it and everytime i see a rabbit or somthing in the distance i have to change the windage and elevation on the scope but its hard to tell how far away i am from it like in yards. and on my scope its 1/4 inch click from 100 yards and if i zeroed it in at about 30 yards and my target was 100 yards away would i need to adjust up or down?also would i need to adjust it to the left or right either?i havent even killed anything yet and i had my gun for about 3 months but i killed one 1 squirrel by luck

Answer 1

Yeah ok, zero your scope in at about 50 yards, is what i did with mine, its 1200 fps, If Your scope has mill dots its a lot easier, The farther away a target is, your gonna have to lower the sites, remember, Moving the side to side knotch left, is not moving the actuall sites left, its moving the point of impact left, so the sites actually move right. Same goes with Elevation. So, zero it for 50 yards, at longer distances more elements come into play, temperture, wind speed,and of a shot etc etc. Lets say your aiming up in a tree at a woodpecker (please dont shoot woodpeckers) The pellet is going to fly downward, so aim at the top tip of its head to hit him there. always go for kill shots i felt like crap after i shot a few birds then looked at them, suffering still. If your aiming from a window down onto a bird, again the pellet is gonna fly differently, aim for the neck and it will hit the head. Zero your scope like this, get a paper target or cardboard, holding the gun steady as possible (get a bipod if u can, or a stack of bibles, whatever works) Aim for the center, shoot 3 times, if the pellet hits to the right, move the side to side knotch left about 5 times. keep doin this until it looks about right. Take into consideration the pellet is gonna fly differently depending on the angle you shoot from, so get use to that. Try not too shoot squirells, because its a real d1ck thing to do in my opinion, unless there a pest to you, then its perfectly legal. Shoot sparrows or crows. Again, dont shoot everything that moves, even song birds, please. I went on a rampage and took out like 50 of anything i could and felt like crap afterwards, but i also got a huge fine cuz my dumbazz neighbor called the cops. Pellet ballistics differ greatly from live ammunition, so without the proper militarized training, making adjustments from 30 to 100 yards is gonna be impossible unless you have been trained, so zero your scope at about 50-100 yards, i would do 50 to be safe, and just get use to using mill dots.

Answer 2

Sniper? 100 yards?
Well, leaving that behind, your scope should have marks that you can learn to use for offset from your setting.
You might make a drawing of the visual straight line from your eye to the target and the curving line of the bullet, which you will find has to cross the path of straight line to the target. If the bullet is rising to the near target, at some point it must cross the straight line again. Normally that is a lot further out than 100 yards so you have to lower the sight because of that.

Answer 3

It's impossible to say.You need to make a ballistics table. I would make some small sand bags about 4"X12" 3 or 4 to make a steady rest. Then zero your rifle at 30yds. and then try shooting say 50yds and measure how far your pellet drops. At 50yds one click of your scope should be 1/8"(example @ 50yds. it dropped 2" then move your elevation up 16 clicks to zero @ 50yds.) As for windage you have to guess that. Practice in different wind speeds and note how far your shot is off and adjust as necessary.

Answer 4

Pellet guns, in fact, air guns are NOT long range hunting rifles. Yes, they will take small game (squirrel, rabbit, small birds) at short range but the pellet design does not allow for any great distance shooting. They also lack the bullet weight and 'lethal' design (expanding soft point, hollow point, etc.) to drop game at great distances.

Good luck.

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Answer 5

pls dont kill any animals unless u eat them, didnt your parents explain the value of life to you? you should use models or papaer to shoot at