Ant information on the AK battle sight setting?

maybe I don't understand your question:

the sight is calibrated in 100 meter increments.

Why do you want to use it?  The "P" is a 250 meter zero, I think.

What I usually do is move the sight setting to '1' and zero at 50yds.

If I do not have access to a larger range, then a move the sight setting to '2' and zero at 25yds.

As always confirm your zero.

Are you referring to the "P" setting all the way aft on the leaf sight?

Yes I am referring to the rear most setting marked P on the sight slide.
What zero does this give?
Any trajectory information available?
Thanks

Reading about it, the P, or П, is a 300m "Battle Sight" Zero intending to give you a Point Blank Range of 350m.

Thing is, using this will ensure you miss most things you are aiming at.  The bullet reaches its maximum height of ~13.3" above POA at 165m, and is ~13.5" below POA at 350m.

Since Ivan Ivanovich is not coming though the Fulda Gap firing short bursts and rapid firing his AK to keep the NATO forces collective heads down, why don't you just zero using the numbers?

Do you have a manual for your AK?

The "P" setting seems to only be practically on target at true point blank... namely 50yds and closer. Anything past that and the differences, as the previous poster pointed out, are varied to say the least.

Actually the P, or other designation on other rifles, is the rearmost setting on the sight.  It is referred to as the Battle Sight Zero but it really has nothing to do with zeroing your ifle.

There are different procedures written on how to zero but essentially it all amounts to the same basic thing.  If you have access to a 100m range use it.  If you don't find one.  Anyway, set your target at 100m and set your rear sight to the 1, or 100m setting and zero your rifle to POA/POI.  Once this is done, and assuming the calibration is correct on your rear sight and that you are using ammo that approximates that to which the sight was first calibrated, the rifle will hit to POA at the various ranges indicated on the sight.

The battle sight setting is simply there so that a soldier, in the heat of battle, without looking can quickly adjust his sight to a known value.  This known value isn't precise.  It is simply intended to allow the soldier to get hits on a human torso sized target anywhere between 0 and 300 meters out.  I forget the exact dimensions of this but it is just a human torso size, or another words “in the ballpark”, and this is assuming that the sight was properly zeroed as I described earlier.

If it matter to you, the battle sight setting should be the same as the 300m setting, but the battle sight setting is much easier and quicker to find in a hurry.

Pretty much summed it up already.

Zero the rifle at 100, using the 100 meter setting. All the settings on the sights are for when you have time to actually adjust and calculate them. The battle setting is "close enough" for most situations when you won't want to be worrying about calculating distance.