I have found the best place to shoot older, mature iges as I call them, is an inch behind the eye and down. A good shot should go through the spinal column. Otherwise, if the angle is not right domes and even pointed pellets may just bounce off of them. Young green ones, just hit them anywhere. FWIW-What I said was about when I use my LP 8. More fun that way... Do you salt them or brine them before grilling? -Y
If you set the first zero at 20 yards you should be 1/2 inch high between 20 and 35 yards. Spot on at 20 and 35. For 100 yards shots you will need lots of hold over! Lots... -Y
No, i don't go shooting anything closer.ThanksThe muzzle velocity factors into how much you're going to be dropping a lot more here, in my opinion. Having my Silver Kodiak shoot 14.3 grain .22 pellets at 700 FPS, with a BC of .027, my drop is 4-5 inches at 50 yards using a 24 yard zero. At 100 it has wayyy too much drop.Are you going to want to be shooting anything closer in than 35 yards or is that just for the Iguanas?I would zero at 50, figure your hold-under for the iguanas, and that way you'll be more able to hit something at 100 yards. I don't know how good a shot you are, but you're going to basically be lobbing in artillery shells with how much hold-over you'll need, so you might be better off limiting your far range to a more practical 75 yards.So say you zero'd at 50... You'd be 2 inches high of Iguanas at 35 yards, but only 9 inches low at 75 yards. Even 9 inches is quite a bit of drop to manage the hold-over with unless you have a mildot scope.Scope height factors a lot into how flat your over-all trajectory is, but with the amount of drop and the ranges you're talking about, it really isn't going to matter much whether your scope is 1" or 2" high. That's how much drop we're talking. Seriously it's going to be more like shooting a howitzer.I'd put the priority on the POI being right for the Iguana shots UNLESS you have a Mil-Dot scope and figure out the precise hold-under for 35 yards. Even then, if one is 30 yards, or 40 yards, it's going to screw the POI up a lot if you zero'd at 50.So what you should REALLY do, is zero at 35 for the iguanas, and your POI should still stay within half an inch with +/- 5 yards. THEN for plinking, you can get a feel for the hold-over, and should be able to still hit targets out at 65-70 yards (8 - 10 inches of drop) with a Mil-Dot scope.
I have found the best place to shoot older, mature iges as I call them, is an inch behind the eye and down. A good shot should go through the spinal column. Otherwise, if the angle is not right domes and even pointed pellets may just bounce off of them. Young green ones, just hit them anywhere. FWIW-What I said was about when I use my LP 8. More fun that way... Do you salt them or brine them before grilling? -Y Thanks.!mim salt it before.
Quote from: Yogi on July 17, 2017, 03:33:53 AMI have found the best place to shoot older, mature iges as I call them, is an inch behind the eye and down. A good shot should go through the spinal column. Otherwise, if the angle is not right domes and even pointed pellets may just bounce off of them. Young green ones, just hit them anywhere. FWIW-What I said was about when I use my LP 8. More fun that way... Do you salt them or brine them before grilling? -YYou guys are lucky, I'd like to try some tree chicken!My buddy growing up had a couple of iguanas as pets. They get pretty darn big, not really sure how big the ferral ones down there get but his was about 4 feet long from nose to tail and the head was about the size of a baseball. Fed it mice.