Spotting scope, best bang for the buck, your opinion?

Evil_Dark said:
Thanks Jerry for your input, always on point.

My shooting routine is to spot everything myself with the riflescope, and I have a good numeric camera with a 20x optic zoom that goes up to 80x numerical, It was useful to trace the bullet flight and see impacts up to 500Y. I just have to playback the movie... It help at letting the barrel cool down :)

Is there any good thing to have a spotting scope when you are shooting alone? I use to call the Wind with my riflescope, I just lower the zoom to have a larger field of view. I have to practice with the mirage more.

Dark
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In competiton, I use the spotter to view mirage and flags not visible in the scope... otherwise, when shooting alone, it serves no other purpose.

Consider the Sightron SIII family in your higher mag, better target scope options.

If you want to shoot paper and see your hits in real time, get a wireless camera set up.

If you are shooting rocks and gongs, better bipods and bags so you are tracking well enough to see your own impacts. Better glass with features you prefer to engage at LR.

I only take out the spotter when I am shooting with others in the hills so I can watch the shooting. Or, I will just lie down beside and spot with the scope and LRMOA reticle.

Scopes have gotten pretty darn good and have features not commonly found in spotters.

Jerry
 
I was at the range a while back, and a father son were using their iPhones for spotting. One left their phone on FaceTime or whatever propped up in the grass a few feet from the target, and they had the other one propped up on the shooting bench. Worked slick, but they must have a good data plan.
 
J996 said:
Ok. from what you've said your needs are and that you shoot alone most of the time, I would skip the spotter and get a good 5-25X56 rifle scope and a good muzzle brake. Something like a Nightforce 5-25x56 or a GenII razor (4.5-27X56). S&B's are very nice but now the price goes up for just a smidge more pop (only worth it if you won't miss the money and this is coming from an S&B fan).

With a premium rifle scope and a good brake, you can self spot the shot and the impact.
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I'm able to self spot at 300y with mb and actually catch swirl. I've also been able to self spot at 600m including swirl without a brake. I could see bullet holes at 300m at bcra match in rain, Further than that I wasn't able to using my scope. I'm running a TT 525p btw.
 
bsand said:
I'm able to self spot at 300y with mb and actually catch swirl. I've also been able to self spot at 600m including swirl without a brake. I could see bullet holes at 300m at bcra match in rain, Further than that I wasn't able to using my scope. I'm running a TT 525p btw.
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I should have clarified, I meant seeing hits on steel with the rifle scope. For paper holes 300 yds is my absolute limit with rifle scope (I only have a S&B 12X so it's damn hard to pick up most days). For anything on paper past 300 and out to 500 I pull out the 80mm Pentax

With the Pentax I could see the trace and the bullet hole forming at the fall match at the 500 yd stages (mirage was not bad at all). During hot summer soup though, it's trace only.
 
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