Trajectory of a 22 rimfire at 230 yards

[Dgd6mm]

I was popping away at 200 & 225 yd steel plates on my backyard range with an old Marlin 880 with a 4x Bushnell this past weekend. It had been many years since I "went long" with the .22. It was fun and challenging, my biggest issue was hearing the strikes...barley audible.

I was doing the same thing yesterday with my 880 Marlin boltaction. I have one in semi-auto also that shoots just as well. I was very successful out to 150 struggled at 200 . This rifle has the wrong scope on it, shot all hold overs after my 100 yard zero on a duplex reticle.

 

[Sundown]

It depends on your barrel, atmospheric conditions and Ammo. With my 24" barrel and 1080 Ultra Match Ammo it was approx. 37 MOA(about 74")should be close.

 

[ballisticxlr]

My longest shot with a .22lr was 1500m. The angle of fire was approximately 37.5 degrees or about 2250MOA. I made 2 consecutive, witnessed hits, offhand, standing, from a cold bore. Then I proceeded to miss 20x in a row and then ran out of bullets.

 

[Trashy]

My usual is 220 yards with a contender pistol on a 4 inch plate.

Rested of course.

 

[Trashy]

Its out there, I swear!

 

[Iowa Fox]

 

[Schutzen2]

On nearly all our rimfires with peep sights with a 50 yard zero adjustment for 100 yards is 6 moa or 24 clicks on a 1/4 moa sight. From 100 yards to 200 yards will be a setting of 18 more moa for a total of 24 moa or 72 additional clicks or 96 clicks total. On all our peep guns we count clicks up from zero and if a minor adjustment is needed for daily conditions we just carry on the difference to the next target.

Now the drop at those distances would be 12 inches at 100 yards and 48 inches at 200. I'm sure whatever adjustment you are using but it's working for you but it seems like it would be a lot of adjustment for those distances. Do you have markings on your sight correlating to needed drop?

Thank for sharing.

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If I'm reading your numbers correctly, this is just about exactly what I was seeing yesterday with a 40 gr bullet going around 1070 or so. I had to dial up 24 moa from a 50 yd zero