If it were consistently off at certain distances, I would know what to do - the problem is that it is right sometimes and not other times. As an example, at a two day match this past weekend we shot a stage at 705 yards on both days - day one I hit nothing (couldn't see misses) but on day two every shot I fired was an impact. I had a solid position/hold both days so maybe it is a scope tracking issue? Is it common for them to track correctly sometimes but not always?
Are you shooting hand loads or factory? Also what scope are you using? How old is it?
It is set to “live” environment and I have two velocity measurements taken at different temperatures built in as well (and MV Temp on - for some reason it turns it off when you push the profile from the app to the device so you have to do this manually).
As far as the scope is concerned it’s possible that it’s accurate on the way up but not on the way down if that makes sense. For example if you need 3.8 mils when you dial up exactly 3.8 mils it’s on but if you accidentally dial 4 then go down .2 it could be off.
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That makes total sense - backlash. I have shot iron sights for years (like 30+) and that was an issue early on and I kinda got in a habit of taking my scope to zero then back up for every stage just for that reason.
Yes, I have a Magnetospeed and an Oehler 35P - mostly use the Magneto now that I have proved repeatedly that the values it gives are EXACTLY the same as the Oehler.
I do the twirl thing before I look up data for the distance(s) of the stage I am about to shoot but you are saying do this once (in the morning I guess or maybe mid-day on Friday) and lock it? Aren't you missing out on potential environmental condition changes that could affect your zeros you do that?
