Scope Settings, Too Much Drop at 115 Yards, vs 50 Yard Zero?

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Ok guys here is the deal. I have a .30 texan with jsb pellets. I am hitting dead on at 55 yards with a Muller 8x32 power scope. My settings are set at zero at 55 yards at 32 power. Now here is the deal I can not believe how bad the drop is out to 100 yards from the 55 zero. 
To get a close to zero settings at 115 yards I have to unzoom my scope all the way out to 10 Power and use the very last mil dot.

The problem as you probably guessed it is shooting at 10 power on a quarter size object.

I do have fx no limit scope rings just install but those seem really big pain to keep setting an resetting them. 

Anybody know of a way to make this a little easier to shoot. I dealy I would like to shoot 10 to 125 yards.

As of now I think my FPS is about 820 for a .30 50 grain jsp. The pellet drop at 115 yards seem unreal. Your thoughts ?

Any suggestions would be great.
 
Just a thought, why not cut up a beer can or a soda can into eight little squares. Put 4 on top of each other on the rear right side and the rear left side of your no-limit mounts. Tighten it down. Now zero at 50 or 55 yards. You don't necessarily have to use the pre-determined intersection of the horizontal and vertical cross hairs ... just remember which mil dot you are zeroed at for 50 yard shots. That should take you way out past 115 yards. If I remember correctly, that Mueller scope only had about 4 mill dots below the intersecting horizontal cross hair and the cross hairs were pretty darn thick for trying to hit a quarter sized object.. Methinks a better scope for achieving what you are attempting would be something like the Aztec Emerald with 30 POA below the horizontal line. You may be asking too much from that Mueller with the trajectory of that .30 cal.
 
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Jaydog that FPS sounds pretty low for that caliber. Do you have a chrony? 
Also I may be way off but bare/bear with my logic... I have a condor SS in 25 cal and like you my scope is very high over the barrel making your zero very important. If I was you i would start out at 10 yards and work your way out and make sure your FIRST zero is 55 yards. It may be closer and your second zero is 55 yards making your long distance(100 yards) shot seem extremely low. What I did was use one of those "useless political signs" you see stuck on the side of the road and made it a target. Easy and fast to move. Then I went from 10 yards out to 105 yards and recorded my point of impact and made a range card. For me 40 yards was a good zero and at 100 yards I'm at my fourth and last mil dot. I only have one zero. I bet you have two. Sorry if this doesn't make sense but I hope you can figure out my meaning. Good luck.
 
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So on chair gun. i obviously don't know your elevation/humidity/temp but used 1000 feet above sea level for Nebraska. i used a .050 bc for a 50.15 grain jsb at 820 fps. Im guesstimating so be nice. Muzzle is obviously 3 inches low. First Zero is at about 20 yards and second zero is at 55 yards and poi at 115 yards is 20.39 inches low. I did all kinds of zero distances for your FPS and pellet and if you zeroed at 10 yards your poi at 115 yards would be 7.11 inches low. But that would be a crazy angle for your scope on your gun. I think you need to chronograph your gun and get correct FPS. (Sounds low to me) Use the phone chair gun app and try to find a good zero that will work with your hunting or shooting needs. The write ups say that gun is getting around 1100 fps. So even with the heavier 50 grain pellet you should be in the high 900's i think. My condor ss with a top hat restrictor shoots a 49 grain bullet at almost 800 fps and mid to high 800's wide open.
 
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