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I’m looking at buying a leupold 4.5-14x40 equipped with both the b&c reticle and a zero stop cds dial. What’s the best way to set up and use this scope?
Blakey? Rman?
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I agree with rj. I avoid hashmark type scopes unless they are ffp. I would personally go with windplex or regular duplex. As far as setting it up, good data in equals good data out. Verify your drops at distance before you order your cds dial. I had a few hundred rounds of my chosen load through my 308 before I ordered the cds dial. I'm very happy with it. Hits on steel out to 650 which is pretty much max for my dial.
Remember you only get about 14.5 moa with the cds dial unless you switch to the vx5hd then you get 2 full rotations
 
Thanks guys.
So I bought the scope, retailer made it easy. It’s on a savage smokeless muzzle loader and first range day was yesterday. I shot to 300 yards with the reticle which is where accuracy was dropping off. Gun was sub moa at 200 and I think with some work it will be a legit 300 yard hunting gun, for now 250 is good. I don’t shoot many critters with a rifle past that.
I may order a dial yet, it would be fun to bang the gong at 500 with a muzzle loader.
As an average guy with average skill set and kids to humble me I don’t get many opportunities to flex lol.
 
Just make sure when you're using the reticle that your on the right power! Is it calibrated for 14x? I had one scope that was a 4-16 or thereabouts but the mildots were calibrated for 10x. I found it a bit strange. My vortex lht is calibrated at max power. It's the only Christmas tree reticle scope I own that's not ffp. I dial instead of using the reticle though.
 
have the choice of either is good, I would learn/set-up both, if for some reason you have an issue with tracking or return to zero you can always rely on the reticle, a do same with trijicon accupoint mil-dot reticle and Kenton speed dial turret, can go either way, you have to dial one or the other, either magnification ring or the turret, I would lean on dialling most of the time when there's time, keep a little chart or decal with some basic 10 kmh wind data for each of the reticle hold points and then there's nothing to remember come next season, just grab your rangefinder and go
 
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I’ll definitely have a cheat card taped on the gun, setting up a second smokeless with a vxr ballistic firedot just to complicate matters. My boys and I will be using them for mule deer and antelope this fall.
I’ve got leupolds that I haven’t set up cds on because they don’t have the zero stop. Seems to me that I could shoot the reticle to 250 or whatever is actual and then dial to whatever number is a 300 zero and I’d have more reticle to prove out after that.
 
starvin said:
I’ll definitely have a cheat card taped on the gun, setting up a second smokeless with a vxr ballistic firedot just to complicate matters. My boys and I will be using them for mule deer and antelope this fall.
I’ve got leupolds that I haven’t set up cds on because they don’t have the zero stop. Seems to me that I could shoot the reticle to 250 or whatever is actual and then dial to whatever number is a 300 zero and I’d have more reticle to prove out after that.
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The supplied CDS dial doesn’t have a zero stop but the calibrated replacements do. Its actually quite easy to put a zero stop in a plain dial if you want, I use a 4-40 set screw on at least I did IIRC. Same screw that secures the dial anyway, which is where I got them. Those little bastards like to slip, so I drilled them out and went up a size.

Kinda fun if you have a bunch of plain dials, a tap set and nothing better to do.;)
 
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