I've shot a ton of 200, 250+ with the 22. It basically starts coming apart due to the ammo at 200.
Even with Midas or CenterX and ES around 10, Ill see one impact over the target, then one under, then 1-2 hits, then one over/under again. Put cardboard up behind it and it draws almost a straight vertical line like I'm doing a ladder test. Had the velocity not have spread so much, it would be almost all hits.
The real 'fix' for this, as the ammo really is the limiting factor, is to make/use targets where your MOA size challenge level is the width of the plate and then you simply make a tall skinny shape thats 8+ inches tall; basically a bowling pin. So if your wind call is good (which is the hardest part by far) you're not screwed out of a shot because your rounds had a larger ES within a 5 shot group.
Putting larger circle plates out is easier as it lets you cheat on the wind, but I prefer the tall/skinny as it makes us focus on the wind call.
So for you 25 yard zero guys; I had something weird happen the other day when trying this. Usually I always zero'd everything at 100 in low/no wind as ebst as I could. Worst case, we'd measure the wind to 100, get a wind call, hold dead center and then compare where the group was in relation to center hold and what the wind should have done to the round.
Zero'd at 25 with 5 rounds ontop of each other. Then shot at 200 with a slow full value wind from the right and I was constantly to the right to where I technically would have been holding 2-3 times what the wind hold should have been. Is there a trick to refining this as I know what happened; the adjustments at 25y are so small you dont see them until you shoot further out. Even moving it .2 either way at 25 basically kept the rounds in the group. How do you figure this out without trial/error constantly at distance afterwards?
