First time at 100 yards with the .22lr

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Nice shooting. 100 yds with .22 RF is challenging.

I started shooting outdoor smallbore prone matches a couple of years ago. These matches include both 50 and 100 yard stages.

I have the 'Small Bore Rifle Handbook' by Townsend Whelen, dated 1937. It is no longer popular but they used to have 200 yard slow prone small bore matches. I shot a few of these and it is a hoot. I've heard that a .22 RF at 200 yds has about the same wind drift as a .30 cal at 1000 yds. When you're in the pits it seems like these are coming in like mortar rounds.

The Whelen book contains a table with angles of elevation for .22 long rifle out to 300 yards (for 1100 f.p.s. std velocity it is 53.7 MOA). Yikes.

The come ups for 1100 fps std velocity are:

50 to 100 yds = +8 MOA
100 to 200 yds = +18 MOA