Frag Out! Magazine
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LATE MAY AT THE BELLONA SHOOTING RANGE LOCATED IN MARYNING, TARGET CREATORS ORGANIZED NEXT MID-RANGE SHOOTING CLASSES. THIS TIME, ŁASUCH, THE CHIEF OF CLASS, WAS SME AND THE SUBJECT ITSELF WAS DIFFERENT TYPES OF ZERO IN THE WEAPON SIGHTS Event was meant for the shooters who own rifles equip- ped with LPVOs ( Low Power Variable Optics) and red dots/holosights paired with magnifiers that want to shoot at distances between 300 and 400 meters. To be fair, the shooting range was only 300 meters, but the true purpose of that meeting wasn't to learn how to hit the farthest tar- get but to know your weapon platform, sight and its zero as well as method of mounting one on another. The class where 14 students were present, started with a one hour lecture/conversation where Łasuch presented fundamental differences between using some sort of red dot with magnifier and LVPOs and then he compared retic- le in first and second focal plane. Next part of the training we moved to the essence of the day and that was the external ballistics of the .223 compa- red at different zeroed sights. Łasuch went through most popular types of zero (50, 100 and 100 meters) and, pre- ferred by Targets Creators – at the 35 meters. That was to demonstrate how shooting with each zero at the middle of the target, without using drop reticle or taking any adjust- ments, will affect points of impact (POI). Seemingly, that is something that everybody should know and probably a lot of shooters know the diagrams with colorful points of impact with differently zeroed sight, but the question is – how many of them check that on the range. That reality check was the reason why we went to that training session with Łasuch that day. After the theoreti- A U T H O R : M I C H A Ł S I TA R S K I P H O T O : O L E K L E Y D O TRAINING