50 Yard Zero Target

This sheet confirms a zero you already have; it is not where you start a rifle that has never been on paper. Five aim points on one page means a ten-round check with no target change or walk downrange.

Grid and dots in inches and in MOA

Measured in the PDF: a 6 × 8 inch grid in true 1.000 in squares, five solid aim dots of 0.750 in — one on the crosshair, four at 2 inches across and 3 inches up or down.

At 50 yards one inch is 1.91 MOA, so a square is 1.91 MOA of correction and the grid spans 11.5 × 15.3 MOA. The 0.750 in dot subtends 1.43 MOA — the figure worth remembering: if a five-shot group is wider than the dot it covers, the problem is the rifle or the position, not the zero. Corner dots sit 3.8 MOA to each side and 5.7 MOA above and below center (1 MOA = 1.047 in at 100 yd).

On a 1/4-MOA turret, one square is 7.6 clicks here.

Print at 100% — a square has to measure an inch

Every figure above depends on it. Print at 100% or Actual Size with Fit to Page off, then lay a ruler across ten squares: they should read 10 inches, and the footer bar 1.000 in / 25.4 mm. Ten squares instead of one divides your own reading error by ten.

Six percent of scale error makes each square 0.94 in. A group that looks two squares low is really 1.88 in low: you dial 15 clicks where 14 was right, feeding error into the target whose job is removing it.

A4 and US Letter

The grid is identical in both files: 6 × 8 inches, 1-inch squares, five dots. Only the page and its margin change. Zero targets for the US market are usually Letter-only, leaving a European shooter to print an American file on A4 at 97.3% and dial off a 0.97-inch square. Both files here are 1:1; print the one matching your tray.

The drill, and the other distances

The ten-round protocol — five supported, five unsupported, a group standard for each — is the 50-yard zero confirmation drill. The dots are filled solid against our usual outline rule, because at 50 yards through a low-power optic an outline disappears.

The nearest alternative is the same sheet at another distance: the 100-yard zero target carries an identical grid and 0.750 in dots, but there an inch is 0.96 MOA, so a square is about one MOA instead of two. If the range gives you 25 yards, take the 25-yard version rather than scaling this one in the print dialog.