Missing right

[BULLET 05]

I have a 22 hornet and I am shooting 35 grain hornady vmax ammo right now. I have the gun dead on at 100 yds and can get 1/2" groups or less consistently. I know the wind will effect this round more than normal. My question is i feel like the gun shoots to the right when I take it to 200 yds. I have noticed several times when shooting that it misses 2 -4 inches to the right at the 200 yd mark. I know the wind blows it off some but I have only shot this distance when the wind was blowing 6mph or less. Yesterday NO wind maybe 1 - 2 mph and I hit the target 3" to the right. Will a 1-3 mile wind blow that round 3" at 200 yds?

 

[hogpatrol]

Scope tilted, rifle canted or both.

 

[BULLET 05]

I think I mounted it correctly but I will take another look at it.

 

[bloc]

Scope tilted, rifle canted or both.

Right. If the scope and rifle are perfectly aligned, your horizontal crosshair is not absolutely horizontal when you shoot.

If you mounted your scope so that it is slightly counterclockwise (left side of horizontal cross hair lower, right side higher) relative to the rifle, you will align the horizontal crosshair properly (the human brain tends to do that) but the rifle will be canted when you shoot. In this case the bullet will be "on" at whatever distance you sighted in, but to the right at greater distances but to the left at closer distances.

Been their, done that, bought the t-shirt . . .

 

[joshb]

I've wondered why, every time I mount a scope. Why don't the Scope makers put a "top dead center" line on the top of the scope, and the ring makers put a center index mark on their rings. Seems pretty easy to me, on how they could make it easier.

 

[hogpatrol]

I've wondered why, every time I mount a scope. Why don't the Scope makers put a "top dead center" line on the top of the scope, and the ring makers put a center index mark on their rings. Seems pretty easy to me, on how they could make it easier.

Man, I wish it were that easy. If only the bases, the holes in the bases and the holes in the receiver were dead nuts on the same axis would it possibly work.

 

[lawman29]

Plug the info in one of the ballistic comp. I quickly looked at Berger's. 35vmax b.c. .109 @ ~ 2,800 ft/sec in 2mile wind 0.72inch@100 and 3.3@200; in 5mph wind 1.8 inch@100 and 8inch@200.
So YES wind is going to effect it....

Note: The 40vmax is .200 bc so you'll cut the effect about in half...

 

[asauer]

Like hogpatrol says, factory guns are very often not drilled on the receiver straight. My father is a gunsmith, and just had to send a Savage back that a guy couldn't even get to hit paper at 100 yards, and barely on an 8.5x11 sheet at 25 yards. Not only was the receiver drilled way off for the scope mounts, but the action threads were cut so crooked (AND the receiver face was not in the least true, even for a factory gun) that the barrel was hopelessly skewed. They made it right and sent a new rifle, but it should have never left the factory. I'll have to ask him how far out of whack it was.