a concept we've talked about before on our youtube channel is height over bore
with rifles especially and that's a concept that i think it's extremely important for you to explore
and it's something that i think most people don't dive into
enough so what is height overboard height over bore is the fact that your optic has
a distance above the center line of your barrel and because there's a distance here with the optic
in the center line of that bore at certain distances and that's a key point of this
certain distances you're going to have to aim high in order to hit where you want to hit so
i'm going to put three rounds on a target that i have downrange this is a target that i designed
in photoshop specifically for you guys when you first get your ar15 to put some rounds on paper
to to see exactly what i'm talking about here so i have three different size circles i'm not
going to compensate i'm going to put the red dot right in the center of all three of these circles
let's walk down range
i said something that was very important and i said that it depends on your target size
or what an acceptable hit is and that's going to determine whether or not you have to compensate or
whether you should compensate for that height over bore but no matter what you should understand it
first shot that i took was on this tiny little circle so i put the dot right in the center
of that t-a-t logo and notice how i hit way low so now if you would compare that distance
at five yards or whatever that measurement to the height of this optic over the center line
of the bore you'd notice that they're going to be very close to the same
now i did the same thing with the medium-sized circle that was my second shot i still missed
now in this scenario this is what i'm aiming at this is my acceptable target so because to me
this is my acceptable target to land a shot in here i would have to compensate now on the six
inch circle what you'll notice is even though i aimed in the center i landed it within the circle
and that's a visual representation where there may be a time and place where speed is going to take
priority over compensating with your red dot and making a perfect hit because i said to myself in
my head this is an acceptable zone to hit hidden so as long as my bullet lands within this zone
this is an acceptable hit but what this tiny circle represents is a very small target where
it would be very critical that i land that round as close to or within that circle as possible
what you'll notice on this free printable target is i have one inch squares i have positioned these
squares generally in the position where i would have to aim to get a hit closer to the center
of the circle before i go back and show you aiming on those squares i do want to mention
this all depends on the distance that you're at and what your zero is so for example this thing
is zeroed i believe it's been a while since i've shot it but at 50 yards so let's just say for the
sake of the argument your rifle is zeroed at 50 yards at 50 yards you would aim dead center
and hit dead center but the distance from zero yards to 50 that's going to change so the thing
that you should do is get a target like this once you get your rifle zeroed with wherever
you need it to be zeroed for your particular use put rounds on a paper target like this anywhere
from you know three yards out to 50 and then go further than that figure out what those holdovers
are because it's extremely important whether you're hunting just shooting targets just training
or you have a gun for self-defense it's extremely important that we understand these concepts so
with that out of the way now what i'm going to do is go back to three five yards again i'm gonna put
the red dot perfectly on these squares and we're gonna show you guys where those rounds are landing
so now i aimed on the square you'll notice that i landed it within that tiny little
circle second shot was up on this square landed it in this tiny little circle here
third shot pretty much dead center on the circle so guys this is not a complex concept
to understand we have a mechanical offset between the optic and the barrel and i think a lot of
people overthink it or often under think it just understand depending on the distance and the zero
that your rifle is set up at you will at some distances have to compensate depending on the
target size that you are shooting guys if this was helpful to you please leave a comment down below
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and they're learning this stuff the hard way hopefully this video helps you see you next time
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