Looking for a rifle scope for shooting nice small groups. For now it will live atop a 1 of 2 ARs.
1. Is a 18" heavy bull barrel with CLE match chamber.
2. Is a 20" heavy barrel
Most shooting will be done out to 200 yards with a trip or two out to 600 yard fun prone match. I have no dreams to beat anyone but myself. Prone and bench
I have been saving for a year my budget was dwindled with unexpected tire replacement. Blow out and could bring myself just to replace one when I had surplus cash to buy all 5 and not worry about new tires for a,while....ok enough.
I tried several scopes over the summer and of course the ones I really like where way out of budget.
Budget is 700-·1200
I'm,very picky about the reticle. I don't want a super busy tactical reticle. Here is a,list of scopes I have found that I feel fit my needs. Any input on these or other suggestions are welcome.
Top things I know I want.... MagX figure 32x should be enough but I'm open to ideas.
Side adjusting AO, target/tactical style turrets. I'm so tired of using a coin.
Fine reticles and simple
Well just to date myself my favorite and best scope is a leupold VXIII 2.5x8x32 standard 30/30 duplex. It's going on 20+ years old. It's just not fun for target shooting the + covers about 1.5moa of the target.
That said here's a few I have considered or looked through.
1. Burris XTR 8x40 ballistic plex
2. Night force NXS 8-32 np 2dd reticle
3. Leupold comp target dot. Not thrilled with fixed magX
4. Weaver T XR 1/8 moa dot. I like this scope but the lack of a few hold over dots kills me.
5. Vortex golden eagle ECR-1 I like the looks of the reticle on this but this scope is,not even available until late summer.
6. Sightron SIII with lrtd dot ret or LRMOA2 ret. I tried the dot again the lack of a few hold overs bums me out.
I was hoping over the year of saving the trend of the super ranging tactical mil dot reticle would diminish some what.
Ideally I would like a night force with MOAR T reticle in the benchrest price range with side focus.?
UPDATED: finally bought a Sightron SIII 8x32x56 I only had enough time after the CMP M1 garand match to do a quick 50 yard zero then jump out to 200...all I can say is wow its amazing what just a few hundred more does for clearity,contrast and overall nice scopes.... I tried shooting on the high 32x and now see why the advice of starting lower was given....I found 18X to be really good. More experienced shooter I talked with said Higher X will take some getting used to....any how after wasting a few rounds on 32 X I dialed back to 18 which is where I didn't get the sea sick type feeling...I then put 5 rounds into thee X ring of a SR target at 200 yards....not bad for a new scope , rifle and load.... RSO called me later( I couldn't retrieve my target before I had to leave) measured 2.183 CTC by his measurements... now to get used the scope and see if I can tweek this load.
1. Is a 18" heavy bull barrel with CLE match chamber.
2. Is a 20" heavy barrel
Most shooting will be done out to 200 yards with a trip or two out to 600 yard fun prone match. I have no dreams to beat anyone but myself. Prone and bench
I have been saving for a year my budget was dwindled with unexpected tire replacement. Blow out and could bring myself just to replace one when I had surplus cash to buy all 5 and not worry about new tires for a,while....ok enough.
I tried several scopes over the summer and of course the ones I really like where way out of budget.
Budget is 700-·1200
I'm,very picky about the reticle. I don't want a super busy tactical reticle. Here is a,list of scopes I have found that I feel fit my needs. Any input on these or other suggestions are welcome.
Top things I know I want.... MagX figure 32x should be enough but I'm open to ideas.
Side adjusting AO, target/tactical style turrets. I'm so tired of using a coin.
Fine reticles and simple
Well just to date myself my favorite and best scope is a leupold VXIII 2.5x8x32 standard 30/30 duplex. It's going on 20+ years old. It's just not fun for target shooting the + covers about 1.5moa of the target.
That said here's a few I have considered or looked through.
1. Burris XTR 8x40 ballistic plex
2. Night force NXS 8-32 np 2dd reticle
3. Leupold comp target dot. Not thrilled with fixed magX
4. Weaver T XR 1/8 moa dot. I like this scope but the lack of a few hold over dots kills me.
5. Vortex golden eagle ECR-1 I like the looks of the reticle on this but this scope is,not even available until late summer.
6. Sightron SIII with lrtd dot ret or LRMOA2 ret. I tried the dot again the lack of a few hold overs bums me out.
I was hoping over the year of saving the trend of the super ranging tactical mil dot reticle would diminish some what.
Ideally I would like a night force with MOAR T reticle in the benchrest price range with side focus.?
UPDATED: finally bought a Sightron SIII 8x32x56 I only had enough time after the CMP M1 garand match to do a quick 50 yard zero then jump out to 200...all I can say is wow its amazing what just a few hundred more does for clearity,contrast and overall nice scopes.... I tried shooting on the high 32x and now see why the advice of starting lower was given....I found 18X to be really good. More experienced shooter I talked with said Higher X will take some getting used to....any how after wasting a few rounds on 32 X I dialed back to 18 which is where I didn't get the sea sick type feeling...I then put 5 rounds into thee X ring of a SR target at 200 yards....not bad for a new scope , rifle and load.... RSO called me later( I couldn't retrieve my target before I had to leave) measured 2.183 CTC by his measurements... now to get used the scope and see if I can tweek this load.
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