Leupold Varmint Hunters Reticle? Anyone have likes and dislikes

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I am thinking about sending a scope into Korth to have the reticle swapped.

How do you like your Varmint Hunters Reticle?

Is it the cat's ass or is it cluttered and more than needed?

It would be a 4.5-14 and mounted on a .204 or .223, the rifle would be used on coyote and Jack rabbit.
 
I just bought a VX-3 6.5-20x40mm with the VHR reticle, and had it sent to Korth for an M1 elevation turret. I have it mounted to my Cooper .204R, but have yet to sight it in...or even shoot it for that matter. I really like it based on what I see, but would happily report back once I've done some shooting with it.
 
This is a 223 AI with a Varmint Hunters reticle on a 4.5-14x40 VX3.
The reticle/ scope/ calibre combination is excellent. The reticle is fine and perfect for varminting. Sight in at 300 yrds on the first hash below the center and you will hit everything you aim at to 500.
It is,in my opinion, the premium scope/reticle combo from leupold.
Absolutely not cluttered


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Buckmastr said:
This is a 223 AI with a Varmint Hunters reticle on a 4.5-14x40 VX3.
The reticle/ scope/ calibre combination is excellent. The reticle is fine and perfect for varminting. Sight in at 300 yrds on the first hash below the center and you will hit everything you aim at to 500.
It is,in my opinion, the premium scope/reticle combo from leupold.
Absolutely not cluttered


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It's good to see there's no dust on the 223AI! :d
 
I have them on almost all of my dedicated varmint rifles. Follow the directions and you are good to go.
I really want to get down to Montana and try them out on prairie dogs but on coyotes if you can read wind you should be good out to as far as you can shoot with most varmint calibers.
My only wish is that Leopold supplied more drop tables for different magnification or velocities. I'd rather start with their suggested tables than shoot a bunch of ammo to figure out which crosshair works for which distance/magnification.
 
Look up the reticle subtension of the different lines. For example with the LR dots or B&C reticle it is 2.2, 4.8 and 7.8 MOA.

Run the numbers of your load through a trajectory program like JBM. Set the zero for your zero range, and look on the MOA drop column to see where the drop intersects those numbers. You can play with zeroes and identify the zero ranges for each line without firing a shot.

That is way more accurate than looking at a table from Leopold because you are checking the numbers for your actual load, actual bullet, actual velocity, actual scope height above bore and actual zero.
 
Great info guys thanks. It will cost me $134 p,us tax and shipping both ways to get this reticle installed.
I plan to send it off at the end of the month. Most other reticles cost $87, the long range reticles cost a bit more.
 
RickF said:
Look up the reticle subtension of the different lines. For example with the LR dots or B&C reticle it is 2.2, 4.8 and 7.8 MOA.

Run the numbers of your load through a trajectory program like JBM. Set the zero for your zero range, and look on the MOA drop column to see where the drop intersects those numbers. You can play with zeroes and identify the zero ranges for each line without firing a shot.

That is way more accurate than looking at a table from Leopold because you are checking the numbers for your actual load, actual bullet, actual velocity, actual scope height above bore and actual zero.
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Wow that is an awesome way to calculate your bdc reticles with even sending rounds down range!
 
RickF said:
Look up the reticle subtension of the different lines. For example with the LR dots or B&C reticle it is 2.2, 4.8 and 7.8 MOA.

Run the numbers of your load through a trajectory program like JBM. Set the zero for your zero range, and look on the MOA drop column to see where the drop intersects those numbers. You can play with zeroes and identify the zero ranges for each line without firing a shot.

That is way more accurate than looking at a table from Leopold because you are checking the numbers for your actual load, actual bullet, actual velocity, actual scope height above bore and actual zero.
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Where did you find that info? And is that available for every power setting? I did something similar by having MOA lines on paper and charting the lineS by MOA at various power settings but that was alot of work.
 
Donny Fenn1 said:
Where did you find that info? And is that available for every power setting? I did something similar by having MOA lines on paper and charting the lineS by MOA at various power settings but that was alot of work.
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Don't mean to try and answer RickF's question but... the Leupold manual (at least mine) has a chart that gives you the different moa's for the points on the reticle, and does it at high power and low power and a few in between.
 
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