I recently got 30- 06 springfield i have only shot it a couple of time how should i sight it in?

Question

what is the trajectory of the bullet ,shots will be within 200-300yards .Bullets are 150gn soft points.

Answer 1

To hit in the kill zone at 300 yards, the gun will need to be sighted in at least an inch high at 100 yards. the 06 is great out to 250 yards with the 150 grain bullet, but the drop is well pronounced from 250 to 300. yards.

Answer 2

Sight it in at 100 yards- this is the range that will make the adjusting easier, because most scopes have a 1/4 inch adjustment for each click at that distance- for the 06 to hit in the kill zone at 300 yards, I would set the sight to hit 2 inches high at the 100 yard mark- this would enable you to aim dead on out to 300 yards with no problem. Your choice of 150 grain soft points are an excellent choice for deer. Good luck and good hunting!

Answer 3

I recently tried a laser site-in cartridge (it is a laser device built into a shell casing for a given calkiber, such as a .30-06).  You merely load it in the barrel as any shell would be loaded.  It projects a laser beam of considerable distance.  Follow the directions as supplied.  It allows pinpoint sighting in of your rifle, scope and/or iron sights witthout having to be at a gun range and without having to fire a shot.  Mine cost me $39 for my .243.  This is probably the most accurate way to site in a gun I have yet seen.,  Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Here's the trajectory information on the .30-06 150 gr soft points from Winchester and Remington's websites:

http://www.winchester.com/products/catal...

http://www.remington.com/products/ammuni...

Answer 5

At a known range of 100 yards put a black dot in the center of a piece of paper; fire one shot.  Measure the inches from the dot where the bullet hits and adjust your scope up/down & sideways the appropriate number of inches.  Most scopes are 1/4 inch per click at 100 yards.  Example-if you hit two inches right and three inches down you would adjust your scope 8 clicks left and 12 clicks up.  Test fire and repeat if necessary.  A hint; before you do the sighting in procedure fire five shots from a clean barrel to burn & condition the barrel.  Also, remember that different types of ammunition will pattern different, so sight it in and hunt with the same brand/weight shell.

Answer 6

It depends how far you want to sight in,but i will say it also depends on how good of a scope u have,does yr scope have hold over points?.I have a .223 Sp's Remington varmint 55gr scoped out with a Burris 4x16x44 ballistic plex with posi lock (got hold over points),i sighted it in at 100 meters and my hold over points go up to 500 meters.But i will admit when you use a rang finder you can do some guess work like i did.I shot a kangaroo at 750 meters with my .223 smack in the head.Its all up to you and what type of terrain you hunt on also open land or bushy areas.so if i was you invest in a good scope, burris has got scopes 4 yr 30.06 and it tells you yr hold over points and what yr centre cross hair should be at 200,300 yards/meters(burris hold over point r accurate)and they cater 4 all types of guns, it all comes to the shoot what he wants and how he hunts and what terrain he faces unless yr just a target shooter go as far as u want to shoot i hope this helped u cheers

Answer 7

Never sight in a new rifle at 100 yards. I've seen people fire a whole box of ammo and never even hit the target.

1. Go to the range and set up at the 25 yard line.

2. With the rifle on the rest, take the bolt out and look through the back of the barrel. Center it on the target.

3. Without touching the gun, look through the scope and adjust the scope until the crosshairs are on the bullseye.

4. Fire a shot and move the crosshairs, repeat until you're within an inch or so of the bullseye (shouldn't take but 3-5 shots)

5. Then and only then do you move it to 100 yards.

You don't waste ammo and you don't need to buy ridiculas bore sighters.

It sounds like you have it zeroed already though and just want to finalize it.

The 30-06 when used for long range is traditionally sighted in 2" high at 100 yards. That puts you with a 200 yard zero and about 8" low at 300. I see no reason to sight it in differently.

Answer 8

You'll have to find the ballistic coefficient of the bullet, and the mean muzzle velocity of the load from chronographing your load. Please don't use published tables for velocities: they just aren't close enough. Then you can use one of the standard programs to estimate point blank range. Sight it in for theoretical PBR, and double-check by shooting it. Just as a wild guess, you'll probably find PBR will be something around 220 yards, but that'll take a lot of work to figure for certain.

Answer 9

Sight it in just like any other gun.  Put a target up at either 100, 150, or 200 yards and sight in from there.  If you have it sighted in then the trajectory dosn't matter much.