Thread: Scope recommendations

Originally Posted by Ultimitsu

This thread is not about whether you can shoot something at a long distance. It is entirely possible to shoot 30cm target at 500 meters with just a 3-9 powered scope - if you just spend your time zeroing it.

What OP is asking is dialling. Dialling on the fly is a trendy but expensive game. Very few scopes can do it 100%. Most high end expensive scopes can do it within 1% of error. Most mid-ranged scopes cannot do it reliably at all.

I didn't express myself well, I put the new Burris on the other night, quickly set up a 1.5 inches high at 100 yards, then back to 600 yards to dial in 11moa. Turns out I'm a good 6 inches low so I factored 1.047 for true moa rather than an inch, which takes me from 44 to 46 clicks (shooter is great for this)

Three of six inches found. But next time I will take a board out and measure exactly what I get from 48 clicks (12moa). There was potentially a downdraft involved in the shots, I might naturally give away an inch in my setup etc. so I'm going to mess around quite a bit finding what I think is the best setting at 600yards.
After that the zero at 100 yards (and 400 yards) is what it is within reason but I need to know those elevations for future reference.

What I'm doing is minimizing any dialing errors inside 600 yards to the point they aren't relevant on deer sized game. It will involve multiple nights of shooting so I'm gonna get a pretty good handle if the scope dials repeatedly enough to do the job.

What I'm saying is if you do some work a mid range scope can get the job done. Having said that, I think that 600 yards on an animal is a long way, 500 is challenging and 400 is the very doable with a bit of work.