50 yard - 200 yard?

[dbcooper]

Sorry guy's was not sure how to type the header. But I have a quick question. If one was shooting a 300 WSM sighted in at 200 yards... how high would the bullet hit(or how low would you put the cross hairs) if you were shooting an animal(target) at 50 yards?

Thanks for all replies

DB

[209x50]

Hold dead on the difference is less than an inch.

[CR5]

Either check some balistic charts or just go out to the range and practice at different ranges and build your own chart for your gun.

[Sigma]

This is the program I use to determine bullet drop or drift.

http://www.handloads.com/calc/index.html

Sig

[HunterDave]

The Remington website used to have a good, basic program that you could download for free. You type in the info (caliber, Bullet weight, distance) and a target will show you where your bullets are hitting. It's so easy a caveman can do it.

[elkhunter11]

Shoot the load at 50 yards,and find out where the actual point of impact is.

[Nickote316]

http://ballisticscalculator.winchester.com/

[Dean2]

Unless you are shooting field mice the difference is irrelevant, but dead on at 200 would make you about a half inch high at 50. I sight all of my guns to hit 3.5" high at 100 yards, so I don't have to remember different drops for close shooting with different calibers. The 3.5" high at 100 puts most modern high speed rounds back dead on somewhere between 260 and 300 yards. Means that for deer sized game you can pretty much ignore the actual range and hold dead on to about 340 yards, which is lots far enough for 98% of the game that gets shot every year.

Drop chart for a .308 bullet doing 3000 FPS and a BC in the 420 range.

Muzzle -1.5
25 0.1
50 1.5
100 3.5
125 4.1
150 4.4
175 4.4
200 4.0
225 3.4
250 2.4
275 1.0
300 -.08
325 -2.9
350 -5.4
375 -8.4