Opinion: Buying philosophy for optics

[jimbo14]

I won that stock at a match.
There’s more to the price of alpha glass than just the glass also. Arguably of greater importance than the glass itself, is accurate and repeatable turret tracking.
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On the tracking issue, top glass doesn’t always mean the best tracking. Always do an accurate tall target test to find your correction factor.

At RFMA, they let us know they found top $ doesn’t mean the best tracking. It can really vary. They checked all of ours and gave each of us a SSF value to plug into the software.

 

[Tokay444]

On the tracking issue, top glass doesn’t always mean the best tracking. Always do an accurate tall target test to find your correction factor.

At RFMA, they let us know they found top $ doesn’t mean the best tracking. It can really vary. They checked all of ours and gave each of us a SSF value to plug into the software.

If I paid top dollar and my scope didn't track, it would be going back until it did. No correction factors needed.

 

[jimbo14]

If I paid top dollar and my scope didn't track, it would be going back until it did. No correction factors needed.

There were over 20 of us at the level 2 course last summer. Plenty of $ in rifles and glass there. Everyone was entering corrections into the software. Not just me and my Apex.

I bet for most long range shooters who never run a tall target test, they’d never know how much their scope was out. They’d just fudge the drag curve to fit and use DSF points and similar methods to get their dope.

 

[homslice]

My range is 500 meters long.
I use a tikka t3 x in .223. I can get 4" groups at 500 meters using a vortex crossfire 2 it's 6x18 very basic. It cost me around $225 on ee .
I try to buy most of my stuff used as I have no love for any extra of my pennies going to support JT