I am trying to get my head around dialling in for shooting. Ie scope is zeroed at 100 yards, so how many clicks for 300?
anybody put me to a “dialling in for idiots” site?
I known it is different for calibers but want to read up on the basics before going to the range.
probably be using my 243 if anyone is interested, mainly because it has a bipod.
Here goes:
Dialling in corrections means you have to know all the variables in advance.
Those variables are :
Bullet weight
Bullet ballistic coefficient
Muzzle velocity (actual, as in read by a chrono)
Height of scope above bore
Zero range
It's no good estimating, or reading MV off the box of ammo, and variations in scope height will affect the ballistic App's calculations quite significantly.
It matters not a jot whether you use MOA or Mrads, both work just as well, but the key is consistency, so mixing and matching imperial and metric range measurements for example will only lead to tears.......
Your ballistic App (in your case strelok) will save the variable values in the list above and use them to calculate how much the bullet will drop over different ranges.
Once you have input the variables, you can ask the app to give you a dope chart usually in 100m intervals, but you can change that to 50 or 25 m intervals. If the range is imperial, make sure you tell the app that you want solutions in Yards.
Nothing works as consistently as real life, so once you have a dope chart of solutions, go and confirm at real targets that the corrections they suggest are accurate. If they vary, it'll be down to atmospheric or other conditions, but they'll be a reasonable "starting point" and you can write down the actual corrections needed for future reference.
Have fun.