Buffalobwana
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I'm in this mode of thinking now. Looking at a 26 Nosler, 6.5 lb gun w a 22" barrel and just use it for everything that doesn't need a 375 H&H.
Anyone else swap scopes?
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Shane Lindsey
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Whatcha gonna practice with?
Load dev=200 rounds.
Any long range validation=200 rounds + .
Changes in said load as it erodes quite a bit with the 26 Nosler =100 rounds.
Time for a barrel change.
Zen Archery
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Nightforce sits on a Bobro Mount. I write write zeros for all my long range cals.
Most of my hunting rifles are all scoped up in Talleys and a pain to swap...so they live there.
A few of my hunting rifles have picatinny rails for scope swapping but eventually found another scope here and there to try out and suddenly... they were all scoped!
As someone mentioned earlier, I'd rather confidently grab the rifle and go hunt or shoot rather than question myself if I had in fact re-zeroed after swapping.
I am beginning to think like others about selling off all of the twins and overlapping chamberings and keep my favorite 223, 6.5, 7mm and 30 cal. hunting rifles to simplify my load bench.
All of my LR bench rifles have picatinny rails to enable swapping of scopes if needed.
A few of my hunting rifles have picatinny rails for scope swapping but eventually found another scope here and there to try out and suddenly... they were all scoped!
As someone mentioned earlier, I'd rather confidently grab the rifle and go hunt or shoot rather than question myself if I had in fact re-zeroed after swapping.
I am beginning to think like others about selling off all of the twins and overlapping chamberings and keep my favorite 223, 6.5, 7mm and 30 cal. hunting rifles to simplify my load bench.
All of my LR bench rifles have picatinny rails to enable swapping of scopes if needed.
Why stop at just scopes? I play musical gun parts with my customs on a fairly regular basis.
Heck I've hunted with parts of the same rifle for the past 4 years and not once was it in the same configuration as the year prior and it looks like I'll be doing the same again for a 5th year.
Heck I've hunted with parts of the same rifle for the past 4 years and not once was it in the same configuration as the year prior and it looks like I'll be doing the same again for a 5th year.
I actually thought about this last night while I was rearranging things in my safe. I pulled out all the scope boxes and loose scopes along with other crap that was getting in the way and realized I either need a much bigger safe, less rifles, or come up with a better system. It all started when I wanted a 22 to shoot an armadillo in my yard and it was deep in the safe. By the time I got the 22 out it was dark thirty and the cheap Vortex scope was useless. My solution has been to upgrade rifles and scopes a little at a time. Cheap scopes just take up space and create frustration.
Buffalobwana
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Truth.
QuietTexan
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Same. I put good scopes in Spuhr mounts and move them as needed. Re-zeroing is a 5 shot process at most. Tangent Theta is a $6k scope to get to your door, March Genesis $7k, ZCO $5k, ATACR $4k. Rifles are cheap by comparison
I'd need a third mortgage to put that level of glass on ALL my rifles.comfisherman
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Man I wish I was doing the budget version and using one scope on multiple rifles...
I've had the horrible scope OCD the last couple of winners, I swear I spend half my time rechecking zero because I decided to swap one scope for the other. I've come to the conclusion the perfect scope doesn't exist in fact the average do it all rifle probably needs two maybe three....
Had a 3 to 18 on my 17 Mach 2 for a big squirrel shoot, but it didn't have quite enough field of view to clean a branch of grouse early season. So on went the 2-12.... but without parallax adjustment it blurred over 9.5x and the reticle sucked... so on went the 1-6. That was perfect until the first week of November when I realized that light gathering matters north of the 60th parallel. Just put a 2-10 on with a better reticle.... fingers crossed its just right.
That rifles had a 1-4, 1-8, a 1-6 a 2-10, 2-12, a 3-10, 3-18 and a rmr on it in the last 2.5 years... had high hopes fir the mk5hd 2-10 until the specs came out....
*Shane Lindsey is right, gotta be careful with some cartridges, burnt up some throat on my last 7 rum with a frustrating scope on it. Scope rotation on it would make for some short barrel life.
I've had the horrible scope OCD the last couple of winners, I swear I spend half my time rechecking zero because I decided to swap one scope for the other. I've come to the conclusion the perfect scope doesn't exist in fact the average do it all rifle probably needs two maybe three....
Had a 3 to 18 on my 17 Mach 2 for a big squirrel shoot, but it didn't have quite enough field of view to clean a branch of grouse early season. So on went the 2-12.... but without parallax adjustment it blurred over 9.5x and the reticle sucked... so on went the 1-6. That was perfect until the first week of November when I realized that light gathering matters north of the 60th parallel. Just put a 2-10 on with a better reticle.... fingers crossed its just right.
That rifles had a 1-4, 1-8, a 1-6 a 2-10, 2-12, a 3-10, 3-18 and a rmr on it in the last 2.5 years... had high hopes fir the mk5hd 2-10 until the specs came out....
*Shane Lindsey is right, gotta be careful with some cartridges, burnt up some throat on my last 7 rum with a frustrating scope on it. Scope rotation on it would make for some short barrel life.
Buffalobwana
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This is exactly my thought process. Although, I'm dealing w $2.5k scopes.Same. I put good scopes in Spuhr mounts and move them as needed. Re-zeroing is a 5 shot process at most. Tangent Theta is a $6k scope to get to your door, March Genesis $7k, ZCO $5k, ATACR $4k. Rifles are cheap by comparison
Good Rifles are cheap in comparison to those scopes!
I only swap the scope when I have to or if I'm having problems to diagnose . components being so expensive nowadays even the few shots to sight in add up.
At least on my place the armadillos are stupid. Hit him with a flashlight, and do the deed.
ridgewalker
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I swap scopes for different reasons. Example on my MRC 375 H&H I have primarily used in Africa I take two scopes on Warne QR rings. (1) Xv-6 1-6x illuminated for dangerous game sighted for 300 gr bullets. (2) VX6 2-12x illuminated for plains game and for when very accurate shots such as croc are needed and sighted in for a 250 gr bullet. It has worked out well for me.
The second example is I keep a VX5 3-15x in QR rings to use for load development, then switch to a lesser powered lighter scope for hunting big game such as a 3-9x or 2-10x. It can be a pain to switch, but I play with loads a lot particularly since all the powder, bullet, primer shortages. Now I have a ridiculous amount of different powders I need to then down.
The second example is I keep a VX5 3-15x in QR rings to use for load development, then switch to a lesser powered lighter scope for hunting big game such as a 3-9x or 2-10x. It can be a pain to switch, but I play with loads a lot particularly since all the powder, bullet, primer shortages. Now I have a ridiculous amount of different powders I need to then down.
I have switched scopes from time to time, primarily to determine if I was having rifle issues or scope issues. I generally like to keep my zeroing in only needing to adjust a few clicks here and there. Good glass is expensive but keeping in mind that I am retired and on somewhat of a budget this seems a bit extreme to me. Save the money spent on ammo (which is not cheap these days) used to sight in all these rifles when changing the scope back and forth, and buy another scope.
