WildRose
Well-Known Member
You'd be money ahead to just put MOA turrets on and set up drop charts for the different altitude and temperature extremes rather than trying to go with the premarked custom range turrets.As far as the CDS, it does come with one free custom dial, I just bought a VX-3 4.5-14 CDS for a .270 my boy will shoot next year, haven't worked up a load for it yet to test out the dial. I originally sent off my VX3 6.5-20 off to the factory to get a 1000yd turret put on it for my 168bergers, for the most part is pretty **** close out to 800-900yds, haven't shot it a lot much further. I realize the elements really start coming into play at the longer ranges, that's the reason I'm now looking for an overall longer range set up, to be a little more accurate with the distance against the elements. I live in Montana, so hunting can range from 3000'-10,000' where I shot my mountain goat, and temps from 60deg to -20, (burr)!
There are several guys here who have used plastic label makers to make their own custom rang turrets which you can do for literally pennies.
If you hunt at one altitude then the CDS custom turrets make a lot of sense as long as you aren't using a particularly temperature sensitive powder.