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Don’t Make It Complicated!
Must Be Secure!
Zeroing your deer rifle doesn’t need to be a complicated process. I would suggest you use a good bench rest supported by a couple sandbags. The key is that the weapon must be secure and can’t arbitrarily move around.
Sighting the weapon for zero at either 25 or 100 yards will give you the same aiming/hit-point trajectory. Shoot three rounds into a paper/card-board target, and then triangulate the shot-group. Measure the straight-line distance, in inches, to adjust the center of the shot-group to the on-line point with the target/point-of-aim (windage______in.). Then measure the straight-line distance, in inches, from that vertical on-line point to the target’s point-of-aim (elevation______in.).
Instructions for the sight unit will explain how many clicks of adjustment are needed to move the shot-group the desired distance for both the lateral (windage) and elevation adjustments. This 3 round, shot-group process of adjustment should be continued until the center point of the shot-group has been adjusted to the target (point-of-aim). However, hunters who routinely take shots out to 200-300 yards might want to make the center strike of the shot-group a little high (couple inches) in-relation-to the target (point-of- aim), when zeroing your rifle at 100 yards..