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To: Hadean

From what I recall you can site an AR in at 50 yards and it’s accurate out to 300 because the 5.56 nato shoots flat.


32 posted on 07/13/2024 7:54:39 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Clutch Martin

“From what I recall you can site an AR in at 50 yards and it’s accurate out to 300 because the 5.56 nato shoots flat.”

I think you zero at 36 yards for being zero again at 300. I use 25 yards for 200 yards.


64 posted on 07/13/2024 8:10:50 PM PDT by bosco24
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To: Clutch Martin

An AR is just a platform. They are available in many calibers.


85 posted on 07/13/2024 8:31:38 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11)
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To: Clutch Martin

From what I recall you can site an AR in at 50 yards and it’s accurate out to 300 because the 5.56 nato shoots flat.


Sort of. Not completely flat.

Taking your figures: When one zeros the sights for 50 yards, the barrel - which is below the sights - is pointed slightly upwards, so that the bullet and the line of sight meet at the same point at 50 yards. The bullet continues to rise, peaking a few inches above the aim point at 175-200 or so yards, then beginning to fall, until it again crosses the line of sight at about 300 yards.


107 posted on 07/13/2024 9:21:43 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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