So I finally got around to getting a Leupold Mark 4 6.5-20 scope for my Remington 700. Since I am planning to try out some 1000 yard shoots, I got a 20 MOA 1-piece canted base.
I took it out to shoot the other day and the scope has roughly 70-75 MOA of elevation travel, so with the base I figured I would be cranking it way down to get sighted in at 100/200, however at 100 yards I'm almost dead center on the adjustments, and have about 42 minutes of elevation adjustment. Now I did a ballistic calculation and I need about 38 MOA to adjust out to 1000, so I have enough but just barely.
So my overall question is has anyone else experienced this with their setup? I figured with 70 MOA of travel and a 20 MOA base I would have been closer to having problems getting on paper at 100 than having just enough to make it out to 1000.
I took it out to shoot the other day and the scope has roughly 70-75 MOA of elevation travel, so with the base I figured I would be cranking it way down to get sighted in at 100/200, however at 100 yards I'm almost dead center on the adjustments, and have about 42 minutes of elevation adjustment. Now I did a ballistic calculation and I need about 38 MOA to adjust out to 1000, so I have enough but just barely.
So my overall question is has anyone else experienced this with their setup? I figured with 70 MOA of travel and a 20 MOA base I would have been closer to having problems getting on paper at 100 than having just enough to make it out to 1000.