So I got some SBRs and really short things with stocks as the home defense weapons in my little suburban mixed use neighborhood thing. Now I'm thinking I should zero them for 15 yards. Am curious if anyone has a great idea why I should not do this??? I have two reasons for doing this.
Measuring distances in my house, it's very hard to get a line of sight that is more than 15 yards. Which is amazing, because when I go to the outdoor range and hike 100 yards to put up targets, it doesn't seem all that far. But anyway, I guess the house is short.
Second reason, if you shoot anything that is more than 15 yards from you, you are probably going to prison. Exception, you are a now a Rooftop Korean doing what you need to do because it is total chaos out there. But that was 1992, nearly 30 years ago. And in this climate, in Maryland, even showing the weapon will get you some serious heat. If you are not LEO, and you shoot at something 50 yards away from you in Maryland, you aren't going back to your job. So maybe that's because society has collapsed, but that doesn't seem to be likely at this point, even in the most bearish scenario. If you shoot someone who is OUTSIDE of your house, while you are inside, that's the end of your normal life.
If I fire the weapon indoors, probably at 15 yards or less. I used a rangefinder to look around the neighborhood, and still only around 50 yards or so to get to points of interest. So if I need to go out to 50 yards, for this subsonic 300 BO load, I would be coming up 4 in at 50 yards with a 15 yard zero. That seems like a minor inconvenience for being at zero over target for 99% of the use cases in this suburban area.
If I lived on actual land, with space, I could maybe see a 50 yard zero, if I needed to credibly deter some threat on the perimeter that was on the way in.
So in a suburban sort of neighborhood, not living in the woods or the plains etc, is there some reason why at 15 yard zero would be bad on a defense SBR?
Measuring distances in my house, it's very hard to get a line of sight that is more than 15 yards. Which is amazing, because when I go to the outdoor range and hike 100 yards to put up targets, it doesn't seem all that far. But anyway, I guess the house is short.
Second reason, if you shoot anything that is more than 15 yards from you, you are probably going to prison. Exception, you are a now a Rooftop Korean doing what you need to do because it is total chaos out there. But that was 1992, nearly 30 years ago. And in this climate, in Maryland, even showing the weapon will get you some serious heat. If you are not LEO, and you shoot at something 50 yards away from you in Maryland, you aren't going back to your job. So maybe that's because society has collapsed, but that doesn't seem to be likely at this point, even in the most bearish scenario. If you shoot someone who is OUTSIDE of your house, while you are inside, that's the end of your normal life.
If I fire the weapon indoors, probably at 15 yards or less. I used a rangefinder to look around the neighborhood, and still only around 50 yards or so to get to points of interest. So if I need to go out to 50 yards, for this subsonic 300 BO load, I would be coming up 4 in at 50 yards with a 15 yard zero. That seems like a minor inconvenience for being at zero over target for 99% of the use cases in this suburban area.
If I lived on actual land, with space, I could maybe see a 50 yard zero, if I needed to credibly deter some threat on the perimeter that was on the way in.
So in a suburban sort of neighborhood, not living in the woods or the plains etc, is there some reason why at 15 yard zero would be bad on a defense SBR?
