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<blockquote data-quote="diriel" data-source="post: 632647" data-attributes="member: 26983"><p>You did not list a budget...</p><p></p><p>Stock= Manners or McMillan as my first choices hands down.</p><p></p><p>Base wise there are many good ones, Picatinny Rail gets my vote hands down. Badger and Seekins come to mind off the top of my head, but there are several other good ones. </p><p></p><p>Scope wise, buy once cry once... seriously man spend more on the scope than the rifle. A bad scope = nothing but bad days at the range. Nightforce is legendary ...for good reason. USO is good. Personally I like IOR, but some folks don't. I hear that Bushnell HDMR series is actually very decent, some folks say it has CA problems but that has been addressed backwards and forwards and they are GTG. Super Sniper are a rock solid value, not cheap but good. Weavers new tacticals are pretty decent I hear... </p><p></p><p>For out to 1k, you really do NOT need much more than about 20x... in fact 14x if you have GOOD optics is pretty reasonable. With my IOR @ 1k in the last 5 minutes of light or so I can engage 1 Gallon Jugs filled with red dye water using only 12-14x. For that matter I can even JUST manage it at 10x but that is getting a bit hard. In that same last few minutes of light, because of the diameter of my objective / exit pupil available much above 14x gets too "Dark" and I lose the 1 gallon jugs, then find myself dialing back to 12-14x. Just FYI because not many folks seem to realise more mag is not always a good thing... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Have a good one,</p><p>Gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diriel, post: 632647, member: 26983"] You did not list a budget... Stock= Manners or McMillan as my first choices hands down. Base wise there are many good ones, Picatinny Rail gets my vote hands down. Badger and Seekins come to mind off the top of my head, but there are several other good ones. Scope wise, buy once cry once... seriously man spend more on the scope than the rifle. A bad scope = nothing but bad days at the range. Nightforce is legendary ...for good reason. USO is good. Personally I like IOR, but some folks don't. I hear that Bushnell HDMR series is actually very decent, some folks say it has CA problems but that has been addressed backwards and forwards and they are GTG. Super Sniper are a rock solid value, not cheap but good. Weavers new tacticals are pretty decent I hear... For out to 1k, you really do NOT need much more than about 20x... in fact 14x if you have GOOD optics is pretty reasonable. With my IOR @ 1k in the last 5 minutes of light or so I can engage 1 Gallon Jugs filled with red dye water using only 12-14x. For that matter I can even JUST manage it at 10x but that is getting a bit hard. In that same last few minutes of light, because of the diameter of my objective / exit pupil available much above 14x gets too "Dark" and I lose the 1 gallon jugs, then find myself dialing back to 12-14x. Just FYI because not many folks seem to realise more mag is not always a good thing... :) Have a good one, Gary [/QUOTE]
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