Affordable adjustable scope?

[skipglo]

Buy an ARKEN.....Black Friday sales everywhere, or an Athlon....very good for what you want to do..checks all the boxes and a bunch more. Check You Tube...lots of videos on both but ARKEN beats Athlon. Buy this week and save hundreds! Just me!

 

[Roughrice]

FlyFishn1,

Are you confused yet?

 

[Old Rooster]

I think I know what your saying but it's not coming across right the way you are describing the differences between FFP vs SFP..

Actually, no disrespect but I'm not sure I'm tracking what you mean by dialing on SFP will change the poi but not on FFP. That doesn't make sense. Dialing the turrets should move poi regardless of SFP or FFP.

I grew up with SFP scopes in the south and killed my share with them from 1970 until a few years ago. Moved to Montana in 1998 and used a 3-9 Leupold SFP, sighted in at 6 power and missed my share of animals. If you sight in at 6 and dial your turret to 9 you will shoot high, how high depends on yardage. Done it too many times to argue it. Switched to FFP scopes and it is a whole different world.
On normal FFP reticles they are small on low power and enlarge as power goes up except the PR-1 reticle Leupold pioneered. It stays full size from low to high. What else do you want to know?

 

[Jamie]

. If you sight in at 6 and dial your turret to 9 you will shoot high, how high depends on yardage.

We are guessing you mean magnification ring and not turret. The turrets are the knobs that adjust the elevation and wind age, they don't affect magnification. Also, the POI shift from changing magnification isn't regulated to SFP scopes, it has more to do with quality of optic.

 

[WA Coyote]

If you sight in at 6 and dial your turret to 9 you will shoot high, how high depends on yardage.

"WRONG, Sir!"
~ Willy Wonka

 

[Old Rooster]

On my old Leupolds it was magnification ring but I do have newer Leupold with turrets that will still put you in a missing the elk of a lifetime situation, that put me on the quest for FFP scopes several years ago but they are a bit more expensive.
Turning the turrets on a SSP scope changed more than magnification for me,it made my scope shoot much higher,they all do except FFP scopes.
FFP scopes stay the same throughout the turret adjustment.
For me the problem for FFP was the tiny reticle on the low end but Leupold fixed that with the PR-1 reticle.
Here is a video on FFP versus SFP Scopes: