What if I handload ammunition and do not know my downrange ballistics? How can I tell if the Aguilar System will work for me?
For my system’s advice on windage to work, you must choose a heavy bullet with a high ballistic coefficient. Do not use lightweight varmint bullets. Use the heaviest bullet that can be chambered smoothly with the bolt. If you have to insert the cartridge with your fingers, it is not going to work in combat. Carefully zero your rifle for 300 yards. Set your elevation dial to read “zero” and then re-zero your rifle for 600 yards. If your elevation dial now reads between nine and ten MOA, the Aguilar System will work for you. Don’t forget to dial it back to the 300-yard zero. If your 600-yard adjustment is less than nine MOA, my system will still work for expedient shooting. But, for more accuracy, rather than holding over on the mil-dots, you should dial in three MOA for each milliradian of holdover that my system calls for.