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<blockquote data-quote="Brent" data-source="post: 58386" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Just a point of interest if you're considering either the B&amp;C or Varmint reticle that Leupold offers is that you might be better off to choose the Varmint reticle that has spacing a bit closer together. </p><p></p><p>Wapiti13 said:</p><p> <font color="red"> Changing your power ring downward will raise the impact for each given distance. </p><p> </font> </p><p></p><p>What happens if you change the power setting downward is the POI will actually raise, as Wapiti13 said. The reason for this is that the reticle's tic spacing will actually increase relative to the target image with the a lower power setting and you will have effectively held higher on your target using the same tic mark for reference. </p><p></p><p>Point is, if you have a Varmint reticle and your cartridge/load doesn't shoot quite as flat as this reticle is calibrated for, you always have the ability to lower the power setting to steepen up the pre-calibrated trajectory curve to match a slower, less flat shooting load.</p><p></p><p>If you had the B&amp;C reticle, your load better not shoot any flatter than the reticle is calibrated for because the only way you'd match the two is to increase the power setting (which you can't do) or reduce the speed of the load (and that always sucks). </p><p></p><p>Like John, I still prefer the R2 reticle. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brent, post: 58386, member: 99"] Just a point of interest if you're considering either the B&C or Varmint reticle that Leupold offers is that you might be better off to choose the Varmint reticle that has spacing a bit closer together. Wapiti13 said: <font color="red"> Changing your power ring downward will raise the impact for each given distance. </font> What happens if you change the power setting downward is the POI will actually raise, as Wapiti13 said. The reason for this is that the reticle's tic spacing will actually increase relative to the target image with the a lower power setting and you will have effectively held higher on your target using the same tic mark for reference. Point is, if you have a Varmint reticle and your cartridge/load doesn't shoot quite as flat as this reticle is calibrated for, you always have the ability to lower the power setting to steepen up the pre-calibrated trajectory curve to match a slower, less flat shooting load. If you had the B&C reticle, your load better not shoot any flatter than the reticle is calibrated for because the only way you'd match the two is to increase the power setting (which you can't do) or reduce the speed of the load (and that always sucks). Like John, I still prefer the R2 reticle. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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