bought a pro

[country_boy]

Well I took advantage of a sale on the pro for 371 shipped

Never owned a high end optic and till recent havent owned a high end m4 either. Ive been told to zero in at 50 center mass and it will be where I want up to 200-250. Is that right?

 

[itchin]

Zero it in. Never heard of zero in at center mass.zero is zero. I like my pro. Pretty decent for the price.

 

[Acera]

I can't seem to find the video, but I think I remember Travis Hailey doing a good clip on a, I think, 36 yard zero for general use. Maybe someone has this in their links. It might have come from their adaptive carbine course, but I am sure I saw it somewhere else also.


edited to add, I found the original thread about this, however the video is gone.
http://www.texasguntalk.com/forums/rifles/39709-ar-carbine-zero-distance-video-print.html
Maybe someone can find a copy of it.

 

[Thegomezclan]

I just bought a PRO for my Tavor, can't wait to try it.

 

[breakingcontact]

I can't seem to find the video, but I think I remember Travis Hailey doing a good clip on a, I think, 36 yard zero for general use. Maybe someone has this in their links. It might have come from their adaptive carbine course, but I am sure I saw it somewhere else also.


edited to add, I found the original thread about this, however the video is gone.
http://www.texasguntalk.com/forums/rifles/39709-ar-carbine-zero-distance-video-print.html
Maybe someone can find a copy of it.

This is a pretty good video which shows the impact from zeroing at different distances.

I can't seem to find it either. Here's another one.



Good price on the PRO. I'm very happy with mine.

 

[Dawico]

Aimpoint is good stuff. Congrats CB. Price you found is excellent and you will be very happy.

 

[benenglish]

Here's another one.

Wow.

I know you meant well, but that video was far from good. He went off-topic promoting a web site build business for minutes at a time. He promised to explain why there can be a non-intuitive rise in point of impact at longer distances when the target is further away than the zero distance...then failed to follow through on that promise. In fact, he never mentioned the impact of sight height above boreline.

And I nearly fell out when he said:

As gravity takes over, your round tends to drop.

Uh, no; gravity does not "take over" at some point. It's there, exerting a (for this application) constant pull on the projectile from muzzle to impact.

Colloquial phrasing among friends is fine and dandy but when you're purporting to provide information to people on how to zero a firearm, isn't a little language precision pretty much mandatory?

He managed to cram 90 seconds, at most, of information into 13 1/2 minutes of out-of-context ramblings, wildly-scrolling screenshots, and on-topic wording that was fractured, out-of-teachable-order, and just plain poorly phrased. That is an amazing feat, on multiple levels.

Everybody's a writer and publisher these days. Who killed all the editors?

 

[Charlie]

If your barrel is dead level with the earth, gravity "takes over" the instant the bullet leaves the barrel.

 

[country_boy]

Theres a link ive found from a guy that designed targets for zeroing the pro, each square has a guide how many clicks to get center. They are free to print.

 

[breakingcontact]

Wow.

I know you meant well, but that video was far from good. He went off-topic promoting a web site build business for minutes at a time. He promised to explain why there can be a non-intuitive rise in point of impact at longer distances when the target is further away than the zero distance...then failed to follow through on that promise. In fact, he never mentioned the impact of sight height above boreline.

And I nearly fell out when he said:Uh, no; gravity does not "take over" at some point. It's there, exerting a (for this application) constant pull on the projectile from muzzle to impact.

Colloquial phrasing among friends is fine and dandy but when you're purporting to provide information to people on how to zero a firearm, isn't a little language precision pretty much mandatory?

He managed to cram 90 seconds, at most, of information into 13 1/2 minutes of out-of-context ramblings, wildly-scrolling screenshots, and on-topic wording that was fractured, out-of-teachable-order, and just plain poorly phrased. That is an amazing feat, on multiple levels.

Everybody's a writer and publisher these days. Who killed all the editors?

I just found the video in place of the Magpul Dynamic guy one. I didn't watch it. Mostly I posted it for the diagram.

Glad I didn't make the video myself after your comments!

I'll try to redeem myself later.

 

[breakingcontact]

Theres a link ive found from a guy that designed targets for zeroing the pro, each square has a guide how many clicks to get center. They are free to print.

That's a pretty standard type of target. I've never heard of one just for the PRO.

But what do I know.

 

[Andy]

Simple pic to illustrate the differences in zeroing at different distances:

Essentially what it means is, if you zero at 50 yards, you'll be zeroed again at 200 yards and only a little high between those two points; it's probably the most useful zero for our purposes.