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02-02-2009, 11:50 AM
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zero for squirrels
Hey guys-
I have tried to slow life down a little bit and have returned to hunting squirrels with my favorite .22. Having a blast but its been a long time since I've messed with a 22, silly me. What distance do you squirrel hunters zero for a 22LR? 
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#2
02-02-2009, 03:37 PM
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Dunno. I don't use a scope for squirrel.
I practice at 25 and 50 for them. GoodOlBoy
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02-02-2009, 05:43 PM
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dead on at 50 for me. the 17 rimfires are +1/2" at 50.
RR
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#5
02-06-2009, 07:27 PM
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It depends
Where I hunt, I sight in my .22 l.r. rifles to be an inch high at 50 yards. All the best...
Gil
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#7
02-07-2009, 09:48 AM
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Sight in with a scope and high rings at 30 yards. You will be 1/5 an inch high at 20 yards and a 1/5 inch low at 50 yards. this is kind of unique in guns and most tree rats at 50 yard high in trees arn't a real visable shot anyway.
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#9
05-29-2009, 08:00 AM
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Zero for Squirrels
Like someone else here, I would prefer to sight in at 35 yds. thinking that is probably the optimum range. However my club only has 25 & 50-yd ranges and our rules require that you shoot only from the bench and at targets only on the backstop. I therefore sight all my .22s in at 50-yds. I use exclusively 1" diameter big game type scopes which are parallax-adjusted to 100-yds. This can occasionally cause a problem on close-in shots if I don't make a conscious effort to mount my gun so as to look directly through the center of the scope. However, as long as a do my part, it appears that the 50-yd zero is okay.
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08-20-2009, 09:21 AM
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I dunno most squirrels I shoot are within 80 feet. So thinking about it I don't really NEED a zero further out than that.
GoodOlBoy
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#13
10-07-2009, 09:39 AM
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This subject comes up now and again and I always go to a person that has done extensive reserch on the very subject.
"For tree squirrels, I would move the zero range back to 50 yards. That would give you virtually no rise at mid range, and your drop at 75 yards would be less than 2 inches. Lethal hits on tree squirrels beyond 75 yards are pretty "iffy" at best." Larry Lachuck Gun Digest Book of the .22 Rimfire published 1978 Best, Ed
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