It really is. The only good news is that most people vastly overestimate their need for magnification, and once you get honest with yourself and scale that back, things get a little easier to figure out.
Glass vs Power; Where do I Put My Money?
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It amazes me how on one hand guys get 1-6X LPVO scopes for their AR's and state that's good to 500 yards. Then other guys get 12X scopes for their 22LR bolt guns to shoot at 100 yards.
I mean, both of these things can be legitimately true, it often depends on target size. Plenty of 3gunners doing excellent work at ~500 with a 1-6x. My implication was more that some people buy these scopes and then never actually shoot at those distances.
Ahh - makes sense.
alucard0822
For great Justice
relative target size vs field of view. On my 3 gun stuff I just need to hit relatively large plates of 12x12 or 12x24, out to 600 yards max, but have to shoot a lot of paper and 6-12" round and square steel from a few feet out to 100 yards. For this, field of view takes priority, being the relative target size is pretty large. 12x24 at 600, through a 6X basically makes it like shooting that plate at 1X at 100 yards. Now for something like egg shoots with 22s at 100 yards or precision rimfire with a .5" bulls eye at 50 yards you basically have a target a little over 1 MOA, hard to see at 100 yards, takes 12X just to appear the same size as that 12" plate at 600 through a 6X scope. Of course better glass gets a brighter crisper image, and usually easier to hit a clean clear target even if it appears a bit smaller than a greyed out distorted one. The other benefit is less magnification = cleaner field of view and larger exit pupil, so if a scope looks better at the same magnification, less magnification may be needed which alone makes the image cleaner.
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I have a Leupold "VX-6HD 4-24X52 CDS-ZL2 SIDE FOCUS ILLUM. FIREDOT DUPLEX" on a Bergara HMR Pro in 300 PRC...that scope MAKES that rifle. It's a perfect match. I've always had the mindset that any rifle is only as good as the optics mounted on it.
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antco
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Uhhhh…. So I shouldn’t tell you about the Nightforce ATACR 7-35x56 that UPS delivered today for one of my .22’s.
Sounds like a military style sniper scope…Uhhhh…. So I shouldn’t tell you about the Nightforce ATACR 7-35x56 that UPS delivered today for one of my .22’s.
Nobody needs that.
antco
Ultimate Member
It even has the flippy thing that goes up. Extra deadly.
Squaregrouper
Kragaphile
I hear they pair nicely with trued .260 Remingtons.
- Aug 17, 2011
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Tract Toric UHD 4.5-30x paired nicely with mine…
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I’ve parked a Nightforce 12-42x on top of it.
