View Poll Results: What's your preferred zero?

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  • 25/300

    23 7.64%
  • 36/300

    3 1.00%
  • 50/200

    201 66.78%
  • 100

    68 22.59%
  • MPBR

    3 1.00%
  • Other

    3 1.00%
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Thread: What's your preferred zero these days?

  1. #81
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    My red dots are 50/200. Optics are 100. My carry handle iron sighted A4 is 36/300
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    Quote Originally Posted by Failure2Stop View Post
    Correct.
    Common 7.62 has a pretty distinctly more drastic arc than 5.56, which would tend to favor a further zero, but I really don’t like giving up the short game.
    Point being: I primarily base zero on optic, and if I have a choice, I go with 100.
    With irons, I trend toward 50.
    You bring up a good point about calibers other than 5.56mm. I like to keep things stone axe simple. If you pick up any rifle or carbine I own, 30-06, 8mm, 7.62mm or 5.56mm, they are all zeroed at 200 meters using the primary ammunition documented in their respective rifle log book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eurodriver View Post
    If you do RBIZ with -6 Clicks it will support a 100yd zero.
    That's what I had read, but many have indicated it's not worth the trouble.

    Guess I'll stick to IBZ for my irons.

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    I have this suspicious feeling this poll would look different if we disconnected the 50 from the 200.
    As in - how many have a TRUE 200 yd zero.....?

    Just a thought.
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    I don’t think so. I shot a 5k run and gun with shots from 25-275 with a 50/2XX zero and had no issues with any target at any range.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CPM View Post
    I don’t think so. I shot a 5k run and gun with shots from 25-275 with a 50/2XX zero and had no issues with any target at any range.
    I think he wants to differentiate between those who zero at 50 and leave it at that, assuming it is also 'on at 200, and those that get the initial zero at 50 and them move to to 200 to dial it in. And therefore achieve an actual zero at 200.

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    My wife wants a 25 Yard Zero for home defense, and she expects me to follow her lead, so she can use any of my AR style (5.56 and 7.62) rifles. My 30-30 is 100 and 7MM 300.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pandaz3 View Post
    My wife wants a 25 Yard Zero for home defense, and she expects me to follow her lead, so she can use any of my AR style (5.56 and 7.62) rifles. My 30-30 is 100 and 7MM 300.
    You do you, but no professional organization I know of that have a primary duty of enclosure clearance use anything other than a 50, 200, or 100 zero. My other responses above cover the reasons.

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    When we go to training courses their targets are 10 to 200 yards, a 25 yard zero works with minor point-of-aim adjustment. I'm not a "Professional" though I did carry a AR in Vietnam '66-'67, 2nd Bn 3rd Inf, so I'm long removed from a "Professional" setting. Home Defense is my primary concern these days. The AR-10's were intended for longer range, but now my age is creeping up on me. They are now home defense too.

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    Sigh.

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