Nikon Mil dot or Burris Ballistic Plex?

[BountyHunter]

I have taken the Leupold Boone and Crocket and put it on a 300 Hart (180 gr at 3200 fps) all the way to 860 yards on the hash marks and it has the 10 mph wind built in.

My brothers gun and he took 4 deer last year out to 650 with no adjusting the knobs.

simple and works well.

BH

[sambo3006]

Thanks for the input guys. I am going to go with the Burris 4.5-14 ballistic plex. It should be easier to use once I establish the yardages for the hashmarks for my particular load.
My elk shooting should be from a fixed position on a canyon rim aiming at undisturbed elk in front of me, and I wouldn't feel comfortable shooting past 600 yards or so anyway.
The price for these scopes is bargain basement right now--I think because people are spitting up the scope/spotting scope combos.

[lorvan]

I have a Nikon and 3 Swarosky with TDS-4.
I have tree svarovsky on tree guns, a 7 rem.mag, a 243 and a 308 because they works well, but:
you may use your mil dot as a ballistic reticle.
1: you must know the fps of your round at the muzzle
2: you must know your ballistic coefficient
3: you must use a ballistic program as Exball: it has a function that can calculate at what bullet drop correspond every dot of your mil dot ( out to 650 yards i remeber )and it is very accurate ( I shooted a daino out to 500 yard with my Sauer 202 243Win )
4: you must write it on a label and put it on your stock and read it

and Nikon is very bright..

Lorenzo

[Takman]

BountyHunter, What yardage did you use for zero on the 30 Hart? Do you have knobs on also? I am looking to put a 4.5x14 Leupy w/ BC on my 300 WM that Hart built, that gets 3170 w/ 180's and your setup seems to be real close. Thanks. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]