Thread: long range newbie starting out. gear wanted

I take a lot of people shooting on the local range besides strictly target shooters. Just about every "hunter" is surprised when they get on the 300 Yard line - "are you sure thats 287M??" and astonished at how far 600 yards (557M) is.

There is an old adage of advice to a young guy buying gear - seldom followed but true none the less. "Spend the least amount on your rifle, spend much more on the scope and more still on bino's" This is doubly so for longer range shooting, practically all modern rifles will comfortably "outshoot" their owners, and once there is a tiny bit of wind its doubly so.

To buy a scope on a budget I'd be looking for the best possible glass quality at the sacrifice of power - you'll be a lot better off with a really nice scope that goes up to 10X than a poorer one that goes to 20x or more. For example the glass in a Sightron S111 2.5-10x44 will piss all over a Leupy VX3 4.5-14 and be cheaper to boot. And because higher power happens to be flavour of the month just now there are some real bargains in the lower power stuff e.g. NF, Sightron, and Swaro's.