Sika deer Ireland. Zero.

[Luke McMurray]

What do you lads zero your rifle out to. Im thinking 150 yards. Shooting a tikka t3 in 270.
Luke

 

[Claret_Dabbler]

Roughly 30mm high at 100 assuming moderate ballistics. You’ll be a couple of inches low at 200.

 

[Dunwaters]

In old money, with a .270, 2” high at 100yds. Point and squirt out to 200yds with 130-140 gr ammo. The 150’s can be a bit
loopier.
I prefer the 140’s, they mostly exit, copper 120’s are excellent if you can get them.

 

[Luke McMurray]

In old money, with a .270, 2” high at 100yds. Point and squirt out to 200yds with 130-140 gr ammo. The 150’s can be a bit
loopier.
I prefer the 140’s, they mostly exit, copper 120’s are excellent if you can get them.

Thanks.

 

[Luke McMurray]

In old money, with a .270, 2” high at 100yds. Point and squirt out to 200yds with 130-140 gr ammo. The 150’s can be a bit
loopier.
I prefer the 140’s, they mostly exit, copper 120’s are excellent if you can get them.

Thanks. Im using hornady 130

 

[Luke McMurray]

Roughly 30mm high at 100 assuming moderate ballistics. You’ll be a couple of inches low at 200.

Thanks, Im using hornady 130

 

[DavyG]

This is your first stalk…? (As per your recent post) You should know your holdover/drops at all ethical distances before shooting an animal. If you don’t, I’d suggest you spend some time learning your rifle & bullet.
Regards,
DG

 

[Chris Richardson]

When I has a .270 it was zeroed inch high at 100 point and shoot out to 250 with chest shots with 130 gr ppu soft points

 

[Dunwaters]

Thanks. Im using hornady 130

Decent round, can be a bit splashy with shoulder placement, generally doesn’t exit. Try for neck shots. With body shots sika will almost always run, and mostly they run where you don’t want to follow.

I just bought 100 Hornady 130 lead in .270, ‘cause I couldn’t get copper anywhere.I bought another 60 for the 6.5

Can’t wait for the reaction I’m going to provoke with that admission. Particularly from @Smellydog and a couple of others.
Aahh well, what goes around comes around, if you can’t take it, don’t hand it out.

 

[Chris Richardson]

Decent round, can be a bit splashy with shoulder placement, generally doesn’t exit. Try for neck shots. With body shots sika will almost always run, and mostly they run where you don’t want to follow.

I just bought 100 Hornady 130 lead in .270, ‘cause I couldn’t get copper anywhere.I bought another 60 for the 6.5

Can’t wait for the reaction I’m going to provoke with that admission. Particularly from @Smellydog and a couple of others.
Aahh well, what goes around comes around, if you can’t take it, don’t hand it out.

It was nice knowing you

 

[Dunwaters]

It was nice knowing you

I’m not dead yet.
The decision was purely pragmatic. I’ve been trying to source copper ammo for 8 months, no one has any more than a couple of boxes. I figure that the ammo situation is not going to improve anytime soon, so I stocked up with what I could get last week, I was down to my last 2 or 3 boxes in both calibres.
I have now maxed out both certs allowances.
If things improve I’ll try to trade it back against copper , if not, I have enough ammo for a couple more years.
Diesel could be a bigger problem.

 

[Chris Richardson]

I’m not dead yet.
The decision was purely pragmatic. I’ve been trying to source copper ammo for 8 months, no one has any more than a couple of boxes. I figure that the ammo situation is not going to improve anytime soon, so I stocked up with what I could get last week, I was down to my last 2 or 3 boxes in both calibres.
I have now maxed out both certs allowances.
If things improve I’ll try to trade it back against copper , if not, I have enough ammo for a couple more years.
Diesel could be a bigger problem.

Very pragmatic and if you get lost out stalking ( presuming you live long enough after ingesting all that nasty lead ) you’ll be easy to find as well just follow the trail of birds of prey who’ve croaked it

 

[Dunwaters]

Very pragmatic and if you get lost out stalking ( presuming you live long enough after ingesting all that nasty lead ) you’ll be easy to find as well just follow the trail of birds of prey who’ve croaked it

I’m a bit more cautious about the lead than I used to be. I trim and discard with great generosity and I no longer feed the discard to my friends or my dogs.
The grey crows, magpies and ravens may eat as much as they can choke down, fuk the loss.