I joined a gun club in February. There were a lot of reasons but one of the big ones was that they were very "user friendly when it came to shooting my military rifles. The week before last I started "tweaking" the zero of my rifles. The place I shot before only allowed shooting at 100 yards, only from the bench and only on their targets.

The week before last I took my M1icon out. I had my 200 yard dope dialed in and sure enough it hit point of aim at 200 yards. I put up an SR target to sight the rifle in for a 6:00 o'clock hold on the bull. Since I wanted to keep my 200 yard zero I loosened the rear sight screw and dialed it to the "2" on the elevation drum. I put on a few clicks of elevation, made one adjustment and was dead center with a 6:00 0"clock hold. I looked at the elevation drum and it was on the line for 300 yards. Exactly 3 clicks above my 200 yard zero.

I have to admit I was surprised at how close to the ranges indicated on the sights are to the actual point of impact of the bullets. I realize everybody looks at the sights diferently but with all these rifles zeroed at a known distance dialing in the appropriate range number puts the bullets surprisingly close to where they should be.

Today I took my two '03's to the range. I had previously "shot in" my '03A3. The battle sight on my '03 with the USMC sight modifications was dead nuts on with the battle sight at 200 yards. Remembering the experience with my M1 I moved the slide to the "3" line and fired. Dead center again at 200 yards with a 6:00 o'clock hold. I repeated this with my '03A1 with the standard M1905 rear sight. Once again I was dead center on the SR bull with a 6:00 hold.

With a 6:00 hold with all three rifles sights set for 300 yards I was 6 1/2 inches high at 200 yards. I haven't shot them at 300 yards but I bet if I do they would all hit the torso of a sillouette target with a center mass hold.

Ammunition used was HXP 63 M2 ball.
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