Ok gents, here is the deal.im looking for a scope for a high grade gopher gun. i dont shoot off a bench. i dont target shoot with it. i shoot gophers almost as a job for a couple months a year. this is mostly my bench i shoot off.
almost 40,000 acre farm in southern Alberta. Last year i put almost 7000 rounds through 3 guns. For my main gun I have a TUFF 22 receiver, with a volquartson bolt, BX trigger group , magpull stock and a custom made 20" IBI barrel. now currently i have a cabellas covanant scope on it with for me, an almost perfect christmas tree retical. the glass however could be a whole lot better. here is what it looks like:
now there are lotsa scopes out there with a similar xmass tree, but most are FFP, which i can not use. on a calm day if im doing my part we make hits out to the 200 yard mark. not normally shooting that far but we do sometimes. not much splat at that range, sometimes the bullet doesnt even exit.
so a FFP scope covers the target usually when the power is cranked. now i dont adjust the windage / elevation with the turrets like a target shooter would. things change way to fast. so we learn what to hold over and what amount to hold into the wind. this retical in the covanant scope has been one of the best on a cheeper scope. however now im lookin to step up. i need something with much better glass, and a retical like the covanant, but in SFP. my perfered power setting is 6 X actually for most work so i dont need something that is 35 x. 4x16 or 5x 16 is lots.
looking mostly for real world experiance, ive looked at scopes online until im so lost. arken looks to be what i want but nothing with that tree in SFP
help me out fellas. who has what and why.
Mongo

almost 40,000 acre farm in southern Alberta. Last year i put almost 7000 rounds through 3 guns. For my main gun I have a TUFF 22 receiver, with a volquartson bolt, BX trigger group , magpull stock and a custom made 20" IBI barrel. now currently i have a cabellas covanant scope on it with for me, an almost perfect christmas tree retical. the glass however could be a whole lot better. here is what it looks like:

now there are lotsa scopes out there with a similar xmass tree, but most are FFP, which i can not use. on a calm day if im doing my part we make hits out to the 200 yard mark. not normally shooting that far but we do sometimes. not much splat at that range, sometimes the bullet doesnt even exit.

so a FFP scope covers the target usually when the power is cranked. now i dont adjust the windage / elevation with the turrets like a target shooter would. things change way to fast. so we learn what to hold over and what amount to hold into the wind. this retical in the covanant scope has been one of the best on a cheeper scope. however now im lookin to step up. i need something with much better glass, and a retical like the covanant, but in SFP. my perfered power setting is 6 X actually for most work so i dont need something that is 35 x. 4x16 or 5x 16 is lots.
looking mostly for real world experiance, ive looked at scopes online until im so lost. arken looks to be what i want but nothing with that tree in SFP
help me out fellas. who has what and why.
Mongo