Thread: New scope options

Trying to wade through all the available scopes and choose a winner, will put my requirements down here and would love to hear real world feedback or models to look at etc.

The rifle this is for is a 6.5 Grendel Howa with a short barrel carbon sleved, this rig is destined to go into a light weight chassis at some point so keeping weight down is very high on the priority list! It's a pest control rig and shots will be from 50-500m, I'm not shooting tops or ringing gongs at long range. Zoom range to suit the 50-500 in my opinion would be 3-10 ish, more is not really needed and probably adds weight. I like the idea of a CDS or similar turret with a zero stop, I use quite a few different rifles so having range marked out on the dial so I can just tag it with the LRF, dial and bang flop is just the sort of simple that I need - I will be shooting hand loaded ammo so can keep it consistent. Simple reticle is fine as with the CDS (or equivalent) mildots wont be needed for elevation at least, even better if it's a fire dot.

Budget is up to $1200, one model I already have on my list is the Leupold VX3I 3.5-10x40

Cheers!