Foxyboy43
Well-Known Member
It being a lovely sunny day your hero decided to have a play with the sainted triple deuce and the Zulus ballistic calculator.
So off we went to my nearby clifftop range and set up a 3 inch steel at 44 yards; a 4 inch at 87 yards and a 5 inch at 190 yards. The triple is always zeroed at 100 yards with my homeload of 50gns Vmax over 19 gns of Viht N120, trundling along at c.3150 fps (recently measured). There was a quartering breeze of maybe 5 knots coming from my left and a surprising amount of heat haze coming off the grass but not enough to make shooting too difficult. The closest target was very slightly low from me by a few inches only but the other two were pretty much level. Finally shooting was done off FB’s very own B&Q quad sticks with my back propped against the Jimny.
As can be seen from the video below the Zulus BC calculations were interesting - showing more holdunder at 44 than I anticipated - probably because I rarely would get a shot that close and conversely just about what I expected at 190. Despite me doing the shooting all three steels were hit first time centre mass using the provided adjusted zero. I would have loved to step out further but time was a bit short and I know already that the Zulus Ballistic Calculator means that greater distance is not an issue - having shot a lot of foxes beyond 200 and more recently a fox shot with this same combination at 360 yards (posted on Out Last Night).
Sooo I thought this might be of interest to those who may be considering a day/night scope and new or inexperienced stalkers who may not yet be very familiar with holdover/under at differing distances with a traditional glass scope which does not have a Ballistic Calculator….
PS
Hot pink targets were not the best choice on such a bright day nor was setting the furthest one against a hedge full of Buck Roses - which were…err…. pink!
So off we went to my nearby clifftop range and set up a 3 inch steel at 44 yards; a 4 inch at 87 yards and a 5 inch at 190 yards. The triple is always zeroed at 100 yards with my homeload of 50gns Vmax over 19 gns of Viht N120, trundling along at c.3150 fps (recently measured). There was a quartering breeze of maybe 5 knots coming from my left and a surprising amount of heat haze coming off the grass but not enough to make shooting too difficult. The closest target was very slightly low from me by a few inches only but the other two were pretty much level. Finally shooting was done off FB’s very own B&Q quad sticks with my back propped against the Jimny.
As can be seen from the video below the Zulus BC calculations were interesting - showing more holdunder at 44 than I anticipated - probably because I rarely would get a shot that close and conversely just about what I expected at 190. Despite me doing the shooting all three steels were hit first time centre mass using the provided adjusted zero. I would have loved to step out further but time was a bit short and I know already that the Zulus Ballistic Calculator means that greater distance is not an issue - having shot a lot of foxes beyond 200 and more recently a fox shot with this same combination at 360 yards (posted on Out Last Night).
Sooo I thought this might be of interest to those who may be considering a day/night scope and new or inexperienced stalkers who may not yet be very familiar with holdover/under at differing distances with a traditional glass scope which does not have a Ballistic Calculator….
PS
Hot pink targets were not the best choice on such a bright day nor was setting the furthest one against a hedge full of Buck Roses - which were…err…. pink!
