Varminterror
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Some optic turrets are more forgiving than others in preventing the dreaded dev off
but I don’t dial back to zero right away. My pre-stage check, when the RO says “is the shooter ready?” Includes glancing at the turret to make sure it reads zero.
coming off the stage I sometimes need to think about what my dope originally said and what I wound up getting hits with so I’ll want to go back and reference current setting on turret. But I usually do get it set back to zero well before coming to the line on the next stage
All of this. Data left on the turret is data to be analyzed, good or bad. Bolt back, mag out, flag in, confirm score on ipad, police brass. Set my rifle off of the line, pull my card from the rifle, then go write down the stage review. I might come back to the turret if things went ugly.
I hang my data card on my rifle when the shooter ahead of me takes the line, and I dial backwards to my zero stop, then up to my first range for the stage at that time. When I wore a wrist coach, I pre-printed data forms which had “Scope caps, sling, bipod, DOPE, mag, FREE RECOIL” typed across the top border. That was my checklist upon, “shooter ready?” command from the RO, before giving the nod ready to hear, “time starts now.”