Arguing that if you dial in 3.7 mils of elevation for a particular load/distance/conditions combination that is a zero for that distance is BS, and I can prove it.
Is the elevation dial adjusted to zero with that elevation dialed in?
If it is, you have one whacky impossible to read elevation turret, since it must me marked with zeros at every graduation.
Zeroing a scope means setting the elevation turret TO ZERO in order to have POA coincident with POI at one fixed distance.
Period.
It's a baseline that you can return to if you get lost, and verify easily.
You gonna return to the D.O.P.E. you dialed last week when you ended up setting up 620 yards from the steel?
You gonna use that as your reference?
And before someone has to point it out, yes, once every revolution the elevation turret lands on zero.
In most cases this will be at some odd distance, that, again, will be difficult to return to, to verify. Even though it's zeroed at that distance (the turret is on "0") it's not much of a reference point if you can't verify it.
Dialing in D.O.P.E. is just that, dialing in D.O.P.E.
Not the same thing.
100 yard zero unless your scope/base combo limits your elevation to less than you need for a longer rang than you frequently shoot.
Joe
