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Conference vmsnet::hunting$note:hunting

Title:	The Hunting Notesfile
Notice:	Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270
Moderator:	SALEM::PAPPALARDO

Created:	Wed Sep 02 1987
Last Modified:	Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1561
Total number of notes:	17784

844.0. "Sighting in a 30-06" by CSMET2::WOOD () Tue Nov 06 1990 14:50

    I have a remington model 742 30-06 semi auto carbine. I'm
    going to put a scope on it and was hopeing someone could give
    me some trajectory info for it. This gun will be used mainly
    for hunting deer when being on the shooting end of a drive
    that pushes out to a powerline. You can see many hundreds of
    yards, but as I'm sure your all aware you can never tell how
    close they'll come out to where your sitting. What would be
    the longest distance you'd expect to sight this gun in for
    and still expect the average marksman to make a clean kill ?
    At that distance how high would the bullet be at various distances
    in between ? Thanks for any info,
    
    
    Marty

T.R	Title	User	Date	Lines
844.1	wee bit of help	OASS::SOBCZYNSKI_L	`Tue Nov 06 1990 15:53`	10
	to sight in a 30-06 using 180 grain boat tail, winchester cxp3, for zero at 200 yards it should be set -2/10 tenths at 25 yards. this is for the 7400 remington 30-06. Hope this helps Cheers Leonard
844.2	try this	KNGBUD::LAFOSSE	`Tue Nov 06 1990 16:03`	15
	I would suggest somewhere in the lines of 3+ at 100 yds, this would put it at +4" at 200 yds, back to 0 at 275, -4 at 325 yds. Nice thing about this is your never above or below the line of sigt by more than 4" all the way out to 325 yds... at 400 your somewhere like 14" low. This really wrings out the best trajectory for this caliber. These figures are all approximations based on a 165 gr spbt. Velocities will obviously affect this. You would do well to try it out yourself. Good luck, Fra
844.3	carbine velocity ?	STAFF::WOOD	`Tue Nov 06 1990 16:35`	12
	re .2 That sounds ideal. To get in the ball park for 0 at 275 would you go for about dead on at 25yds ? It's nice to get it close without walking 275 yds. every couple of shots ! When shooting 250+ yd. shots, what's a reasonable group look like ? 3 or 4 inches ??? I was also wondering if the carbine (short barrel) will substantially affect the muzzle velocity. Is accuracy more a function of barrel length and velcoity a function of the round ? Marty
844.4		KNGBUD::LAFOSSE	`Tue Nov 06 1990 17:33`	10
	i'll check my figures tonight... I just finished reading an article by Craig Boddington, where he say something to the effect that the .270/.280/.308/.30-06 are all within inches of each other when sighting in using this method..i'll dig that out also. I sight my .270 in using the +3" at 100 method and i've had terrific results all the way out to 350 yds on chucks... the gun is more accurate than i'm capable. later... Fra
844.5		STAFF::WOOD	`Tue Nov 06 1990 17:44`	4
	Thanks Fra, It would be interesting to see what the velocity is out at 350 yds. too... Marty