100 yards

On hunting rifles, I do check it at different distances but will not adjust for windage, only elevation. If the rifle won't do one hole at 25 then I sell it.

100 yards at the range, +2" or so at 100 yards for deer with my .308 .

Depends on the ammo, weapon, distance, terrain and firing situation.. My 270 is set dead on @ 100 but my blind to feeder is 114 yards and 125 to back of my feeder pen then solid tress. If all your doing is hunting from a blind to feeder @ 100ish yards like I am with my 270. My ? is why wouldn't you just dial it in @ 100 yards if all your doing is hunting blind to feeder? I see guys on my lease dial it 1 to 2 inches high @ 100 on my lease. Furthest shot they can make might be 200 yards and that's going to be through brush. I will not mention where all the missed shots come from and the 2nd shots. Need to start using some good situational awareness skills and if all your doing is hunting from a blind to a feeder set the gun up that way and not on mights.. Here is going to be the reply's "yeah but I might go to Montana this year" or "I might take it down to S. TX to this game ranch".. "Might's" are on a hen's a$$....

Right now, if you add up your results, 89% use a 200 yard or less zero (53% being the majority at 100 yards). Looks like the poll is leaning towards a 100 yard zero is most common, with a 200 yrd zero being next. A mpbr will work. But most hunters will take their game around 100 yards, give or take 50 yards, so a 100 yard zero will be the most beneficial for hunting purposes.

Here's a quick ballistics chart I put together for a 30-06 shooting a 165 grain SST at 2850 fps (see below). It's not the slowest, and it's not the fastest caliber option. It's a very common caliber shooting a common bullet to show trajectory. Each chart is the same bullet at the same speed, just charted with a different zero.

If you sight-in at 100 yards, there is less than an inch difference of your aiming point out to 150 yards. Majority of hunters will take game within this distance. It's a very good sight-in distance for hunting and for any long range application, and easy to zero.

If you look at the 200 yard zero, you are 1.69" high at 100 yards. You're not too far off from your line of sight, and still within 3" at 250 yards. So, it's an acceptable sight-in distance. For most hunters taking game around 100 yards, you will shoot slightly high at 100 yards.

MPBR is going to be at 245 yards, and will be 3" low at about 285 yards. You will be 3" high at 120 to 130 yards, which is right in the sweet spot distance for your most common hunting distance. So you have a weapon that will hit 3" high on game. The kill area on an animal is getting smaller and smaller, and most people are shooting from field conditions and not from a bench. So, IMO, you increase your chances of not making a good hit.

With a 300 yard zero, you are excessively high at every distance, except where you are sighted in at. This would be the most difficult sight-in method to make an accurate shot at anything less than 300 yards.

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If the scope has a ranging reticle, I sight in at 100 and dope from there. If it's a standard duplex reticle on a hunting only rifle, I usually sight in +1" at 100 and figure out what the holdover is. In other words, I'll make like a hillbilly and Kentucky windage it!

two rifles two situations..
1) my 308 has tactical style turrets and i zero it for 100 yds, and depending on ranges all the way out to whatever i am shooting i dial in my dope and bang away,, huntin max dist w/ this gun is 500yds..
2)i have a lighter 300 wsm w/ a burris that has the bplex reticle.. i zero at 100 and use the 1st and 2nd hash marks for 200 and 300 yds, that is as far as i will shoot a deer w/ this set up,..... but hogs get the 400 and 500 marks too.
---90% of all my shooting situations call for shots frm 50 to 175 yds

For most of my rifles, I sight in 1" high at 100 yards, which gives me a zero at about 175 yards. That way I'm no more than 1" off out to about 200 yards. (That's the theory, anyway. I have found you can't rely on ballistics tables and I always actually fire everything at 100 and 200 yards.) Most of the places I've hunted don't give me an opportunity much over 100 yards, but I'm ready out to about 225 yards, without having to think about it. I also have to agree with Mberet; if all your shots are at your feeder 100 yards away, why sight in 3" high at 100?

all my hunting rifles are an inch to an inch and a half high at 100.

my .22-250 is dead on at 100. I can shoot quarters with this gun. its what i shoot my does and hogs with, I want that bullet to go exactly where the crosshairs are at.