Sightron siii 10-50x60 or 8-32x56

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I'm building a long range rifle, which one of these scopes would you use out to 1000m? I would like to hear everyone's experience with both of these scopes please :)
 
More magnification is not always better, depends what kind of shooting are you thinking of doing?

I was in a similar situation, but different brand (SB 12-50 or 5-25). I ended up going with the 5-25 just due to style of shooting. I was planning on doing BCRA matches (600m max) with it, did my first one with a 5-25 and at some points 25x was too much mag as it caused me to cross shoot (FOV too short, couldn't see marker + target).
 
If you are punching paper at known distances with a reasonable time limit, (as in benchrest) then the most magnification you can afford seems to be the way to go.

Other long range disciplines (such as PRS style) you may find the greater amount of magnification is not needed.


Explain more of the type of shooting that you plan to build for, that will help those (certainly not me) who are more experienced help you out.
 
Decide from how far(your zero) to how far you wanna shoot with what cartridge, run the numbers in ballistic software, than consider this 8-32 has 70 moa internal adjustment and 10-50 has 50 moa. Pick what works in your situation
 
surfclod said:
If you are punching paper at known distances with a reasonable time limit, (as in benchrest) then the most magnification you can afford seems to be the way to go.

Other long range disciplines (such as PRS style) you may find the greater amount of magnification is not needed.


Explain more of the type of shooting that you plan to build for, that will help those (certainly not me) who are more experienced help you out.
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For now I would be shooting for fun at up to 1000m, I'm not planning on doing competition at this point. I know for some high magnification scopes they tend to lose light transmission at the top end so I was wondering if there is a point to 50 x mag
 
I think I've decided to go with the 50x, I like lots of magnification so I think this is the way to go. Thanks for the info.
 
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For LR rocks and gongs, anything over 35X is going to be harder to use if you face mirage.

With the quality optics you find in Sightron SIII and SVSS scopes, you do not need high mag to see very well. In comparison testing with the new TT 5-25 scope, we were looking at very small objects WAY beyond 2000m.

If you want to paper punch, the 10-50 is wonderful and I compete with both SIII and SVSS of this mag range. But for LR rocks and gongs, my goto is the SIII6-24X50

I sell a bunch of the 8-32's cause they are the middle ground

You may find that with super high mag, you get pushed off target so miss the show.

Either way, all of these will make you very happy... enjoy

Jerry
 
Yes, I chose 10-50x60 for PRS competitions. I usually zoom 25-35x around 500 yards and 40-45x at 1000 yards. If the mirage is bad then I go down to 25-30x.

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700 yards.

You can see the mirage through the scope. The LRMOA reticle, the floating dot, is excellent for this range. Small enough to see the whole target.
 
drift1122 said:
I think I've decided to go with the 50x, I like lots of magnification so I think this is the way to go. Thanks for the info.
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You will be pleased. I have a 10-50 also but haven't used it at anywhere near max as I'm not shooting at very long ranges. The great thing is that you can adjust it to what you like. The only drawback with the siii 10-50 is that with its 60mm objective it requires high mounts.
 
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