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Are you just adjusting the BC at longer distances or playing with MV at all within 150 to 175?I do it exactly the same way lots of people do their centerfire rifles.
I take a full sized IPSC and either paint a crisp, horizontal line in the middle, or put a piece of thin, blue painters tape in the middle.
Then I put it out at 125 yards, dial, fire ten shots, and confirm where I'm hitting above or below the line. Then I do the same at 175, and on out to 250 yards. Keep a record of how this diverges from your solver, and you will have your corrections and trued dope.
As always, environmentals do matter (especially temperature) so record everything. Don't be shocked if it's different in different conditions. 40gr .22s get knocked around by everything.
I agree.....have you used the Cal SDF at all past 200yds, or play with MV and BC only?That depends. I’ve always found playing with MV is easier than trying to change the BC when truing the solver. Some of them you can plug in the true values and they’ll adjust themselves…. Mine doesn’t work that way, it I’ve always believed the solver was to get you in the neighborhood, but DOPE should be the values off which you shoot. IMHO
I shoot it at a target until I get to the bullseye, then I document how many MILs it took.Curious to see what are some of the various methods for truing DOPE for rimfire. Have you modified them over time?
I guess I wasn’t clear, I meant to state to the Kestrel. I understand shooting is the only method to get true data, but the Kestrel is off at times, and I know there are a few people who never touch MV and only adjust BC, vs some people that do both.I shoot it at a target until I get to the bullseye, then I document how many MILs it took.
The ONLY way to actually verify your dope at distance...Is to actually shoot the weapon at that distance.
For example, my dope chart for my CA Ranger 22 says it needs 5.02 MILs to get to 200 from my 100 yard zero with CCI SV... But some days I actually have to dial 5.1 or 5.2 MILs to get it zero'd due to barometric pressure changes, weather, wind, gravity, etc...
On my dope charts I'll chrono my rifle and ammo, get an actual legit MV, and then input that. Then I'll use that to get close. I'll zero it, and then correct BC to my actual dope, until my chart matches really close to real-world data.I guess I wasn’t clear, I meant to state to the Kestrel. I understand shooting is the only method to get true data, but the Kestrel is off at times, and I know there are a few people who never touch MV and only adjust BC, vs some people that do both.
I’ll look into the Cal DSF as I read the image posted above, but haven’t looked at the exact Kestrel steps to go through that process.
Just play with all the inputs until the kestrel lines up with the real world dope.I guess I wasn’t clear, I meant to state to the Kestrel. I understand shooting is the only method to get true data, but the Kestrel is off at times, and I know there are a few people who never touch MV and only adjust BC, vs some people that do both.
I’ll look into the Cal DSF as I read the image posted above, but haven’t looked at the exact Kestrel steps to go through that process.
How did you work out the bands? Trial and error or some formula based on the velocity?I was doing a bit of longer range testing this week, and played with the multi BC option in strelok pro a bit. It seemed to get strelok closer to what happens in real life at longer ranges, but I need to do a bit more testing to verify. I was pretty happy with this setup though, and it seemed to hold up pretty good out to 550 yards. When I initially tried just a single ra4 BC number, it didn't really work out at long and short ranges. One of the guys I shoot with said to try setting up different profiles for inside 200 and beyond 200, but I figured it was too much to screw up during a match trying to remember which to use.
Kristian
Just trial and error. I shot at the top and bottom edges of some fairly big steel targets to verify my elevation, then played with the BC at various velocities to make strelok match the real world results I was getting. I've already got fairly good temperature vs. velocity data for this batch of ammo, so hopefully it all holds true in a match situation. It's tough trying to figure out if it's on though, as my range finder is only reliable out to about 350 yards, so I have to go by the posted target distances at the range, and there's nothing between 325 and 548 yards that I have a good distance for along with a big enough target that I can reliably hit it. I'm going to try to get out again this afternoon to do a bit more testing before a match tomorrow, so we'll see.How did you work out the bands? Trial and error or some formula based on the velocity?
IMHO its all glitches in the matrix from 350-400I just shoot targets out to 400 and get the actual dope at those distances.
If using RA4 I've had no reason to use multi bc out to around 550 yards if you have the rest of the details right. I've been to 680 and it would appear that multi bc have a place out there. Still working on that.I shot a match today using the multi BC dope I figured out for strelok, and did fairly good, but I'm usually just a mid pack shooter anyway. I also graphed the multi BC dope out to 600m along with a couple other straight solutions I've tried, and strelok predicted pretty well dead on the same numbers as a .100 RA4 BC did out to 400m or so, so it might have just been pointless fiddling around.
Kristian
I could shoot more than 550 at my range, but I wouldn't be able to see the target in my scope, so I don't think I need to worry about that. I'll probably play with the ra4 a bit to see if it needs a bit of tuning though. It seemed good yesterday, but we only shot to 304 yards. I was able to hit a full size IPSC at that range with both shots though.If
If using RA4 I've had no reason to use multi bc out to around 550 yards if you have the rest of the details right. I've been to 680 and it would appear that multi bc have a place out there. Still working on that.
Gleedus, what settings do you use in Strelok Pro? I assume you activate "vertical deflection of crosswind"?If using RA4 I've had no reason to use multi bc out to around 550 yards if you have the rest of the details right. I've been to 680 and it would appear that multi bc have a place out there. Still working on that.