I watched a couple of YouTube videos last night.
Ron Sooner was one and I don’t recall the other channel as I had not watched it before AI content, but well explained.
These both explained some thing common that we have heard or do but it gave me a better appreciation of it.
They talked about trajectory, Zeroing at 25, point blank range etc.
They said army practice is to use 25 , Navy use 36yards and hunter’s might get on paper at 25 then take it further. I was told some Full Bore shooters would “Centreline” at 25 then the .308 would be close at the 300 yards mark (elevation)
The guts of the story was Jack O’Connor and others used the ~ 2-1/2” high at 100 principle for many cartridges because the rise and fall and point of impact is between 100 and maybe 250-300 is still within the kill zone of a deer or can still land a shot on a paper plate in that range.
That can probably be applied to the Plains Game scenario. Ron Spomer actually had an African PH on that particular video and of course he was saying they use range finding binoculars etc and are there to guide you on the shot.
The other point mentioned was in the days of Jack O’Connor this worked for varying distance within reason when they did not have range finders etc. I think in those days a fixed 4x scope was probably common with nowhere near the options we have now.
With all the right gear , knowledge and skills we can expect to be more precise with shot placement but on a plains game hunt a second focal plain scope and some basic data you can still make ethical shots.
Targeting Baboons at long range is where the FFP scope, technology or at least knowledge will become an advantage
