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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Long Range Scopes and Other Optics
What is the best scope on the market PERIOD?
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<blockquote data-quote="Litehiker" data-source="post: 1006970" data-attributes="member: 54178"><p>Mark,</p><p>The temptation to buy "ballistic" reticles is that you feel they will answer the hold for your cartridge. The fact is that they are usually calibrated at or near sea level at 70 F. or thereabouts. But how often do you hunt in those conditions?? </p><p></p><p>The truth is that when you REALLY need a hold over at say 7,000 ft. at 0 F. at 565 yards the ballistic reticles will lie to you.<strong>Thus the case for mil hash reticles and a good rangefinder.</strong> (AND my idea of a great firing solution "machine", the Kestrel 4500 which has the A.B. software and Kestrel computer.) It will give you your hold in mils or MOA and it will be very, very close.</p><p></p><p>BTW, often the humidity is high enough to see a bullet trace so even without an observed impact you can get a very close idea of the hit - and a good spotter helps here too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Litehiker, post: 1006970, member: 54178"] Mark, The temptation to buy "ballistic" reticles is that you feel they will answer the hold for your cartridge. The fact is that they are usually calibrated at or near sea level at 70 F. or thereabouts. But how often do you hunt in those conditions?? The truth is that when you REALLY need a hold over at say 7,000 ft. at 0 F. at 565 yards the ballistic reticles will lie to you.[B]Thus the case for mil hash reticles and a good rangefinder.[/B] (AND my idea of a great firing solution "machine", the Kestrel 4500 which has the A.B. software and Kestrel computer.) It will give you your hold in mils or MOA and it will be very, very close. BTW, often the humidity is high enough to see a bullet trace so even without an observed impact you can get a very close idea of the hit - and a good spotter helps here too. [/QUOTE]
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