Colorado Redneck
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I have had several different scopes that I used on several rifles for shooting prairie dogs. Up until now, I had shied away from using those little knobs to adjust for bullet drop and wind. Been doing "Kentucky Windage" my whole life so why change now? Over time my ability improved and my loads and rifles had improved to the point I was shooting some at well over 300 yards, but it was a "by guess and by golly" proposition, and sometimes a waste of ammo. The scopes I had did not have an easy way to reset the knob to zero. Most of the scopes are touchy and fiddling with the knobs has resulted in frustrating fits of re-sighting that riled my ire.
So, I did some research and decided on a Nikon Prostaff 5 with Fine Crosshairs And Dot. Took the rifle to the range and was very pleasantly surprised. I worked up a chart on Nikon Spoton Ballistics for my altitude and load etc. Without making this a saga, the results were pretty amazing. After getting it zeroed at 200 yards, I alternated every other shot at 200--300--200--300 for 5 rounds at each distance. I likey!
The knob adjustments were darn near perfect, and the glass worked really well at those distances. Very consistent return to zero when dialing back down from the 300 yard target.
The weather is supposedly going to warm up and dry out where I shoot prairie rats, so later in the week it will get the real test.
So, I did some research and decided on a Nikon Prostaff 5 with Fine Crosshairs And Dot. Took the rifle to the range and was very pleasantly surprised. I worked up a chart on Nikon Spoton Ballistics for my altitude and load etc. Without making this a saga, the results were pretty amazing. After getting it zeroed at 200 yards, I alternated every other shot at 200--300--200--300 for 5 rounds at each distance. I likey!
The knob adjustments were darn near perfect, and the glass worked really well at those distances. Very consistent return to zero when dialing back down from the 300 yard target.
The weather is supposedly going to warm up and dry out where I shoot prairie rats, so later in the week it will get the real test.