Your Hunting Scope Set Up?

[c-fbmi]

I have never used a BDC scope for hunting nor a multi aiming point scope. I go with a straight duplex usually 3-9 or 3.5-10 Leupold or Zeiss. Virtually all my hunting rifles (up to the 340) possess the same trjectory to 500 mtrs and I sight right on at 300 mtrs. This puts my bullet 2.5-3" high at 100.....easy enough to allow for, 4-4.5" high at 200 mtrs.........8" low at 400 mtrs and between 20-23" low at 500 mtrs. All very easy to gauge with a little practice. Don't need to twist knobs or count crosshairs. It is also interesting to note that using a standard duplex reticle if on 9 or 10 power you get the critter positioned just on top of the point of the lower duplex post, hold steady and squeeze off a good one and you will be eating loin chops over the fire tonight.
It is just me, but I hate clutter in scopes and always have, or exposed knobs that can be damaged or inadvertantly rotated. I learned with a straight duplex and will go to my grave needing nothing more.

 

[c-fbmi]

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Dude, I can make it totally just violate the laws of anything. I can make the bullet reach 200yards, turn around, and come back to hit a target that’s behind me. Get this, If you wanted to shoot a moving target, any normal person would aim ahead to compensate. Well, I can aim right at a moving target and still actually hit the part I’m aiming at since not only does the bullet go straight to its targets, it also flies diagonally for the constant changing degree of angle when I want it to.

What in the hell are you on about?

 

[Nine]

I have a VX-II 1-4x20mm on my Savage 10fpLE1a.

Zeroed in at 1" high at 100m.

 

[g-manz35]

338 win mag and 270 win both with Bushnell 3200 scopes. I zero them at about 250 yards so I'm about 3" high and 3" low at most in 300 yards(Point and shoot for the most part) and about 18" low at 400 out past that It's probably a pipe dream unless of course there is no wind and I happen to have a shooting bench and rest handy

Good ballistic resource if you chrono your rounds and know you bullets B.C

http://www.hornady.com/ballistics-resource/ballistics-calculator

You can print it out and take it to the range and see if it works out in the real world??

Cheers George

 

[chappy]

buy good quality scope with a duplex. site two to thee inches high at 100 and shoot out to 300 without worry. i have a couple of scopes with the fancy reticles but don't use them. any further than 250 yrds i try to use my range finder if i have time.







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[BigUglyMan]

WTF is a primary hunting rifle? I use several different rifles and tailor the scope to the cartridge and type of hunting I plan to do with that particular outfit. That said, I use a 200 yard zero as a rule with the only exception being for my 416 Rigby (and then only when I was planning for Cape Buffalo). I don't use BDC out of simplicity sake. A 200 yard zero lets me hold on hair on most animals out to 300-odd yards. I made a 287m shot on a springbok with my 416 and only had to hold on the line of his back. That was with a 1.5-5x scope set at 5x. Too, I like a heavier reticle if I plan to use the scope in thick bush.

I have taken game at just over 400 yards with a 30-06 and 4x scope before. It worked but that was a little longer poke than I probably should have been taking. 400 is a Lon shot for most people and even those capable of it would still tell you that not every 400 yard shot is a good one to take. Since 95% of hunting shots are at 250 and under there's little to gain from a BDC scope.

YMMV.

 

[popcan]

I've been using a Leupold 2.5x8 scope for quite a while. Low bottom power, with a 100 yard zero, because almost all our moose have been taken from 50 to 125 yards. No need for more where we hunted for many years.

Now that we are moving to a new area, longer shots are probable. I am going to try a 3x10 Leupold CDS scope on my Cooper M54 .308.
still likely more scope than needed, but where's the harm in trying something new?

 

[MD]

I've got Leupold 4x scopes on my 270 and 300 Winchester magnum rifles and a vintage Kollmorgen 2.5 power scope on my Husqvarna 7x57 rifle.

I had a 2x to 7x scope on my 243 and never took it off four power.

For my eyes, rifles and shooting ability, if the animal doesn't look big enough in my scope, it's too far away.

 

[guntech]

40 years ago I used to install a 3 cross hair reticule in Lyman and Weaver scopes... it worked out well with flat shooting calibers for 300, 400, 500 yards and coyote hunting...

Today I have a couple of Leupolds with the Boone and Crockett reticules. I like that set up too.