Need some advice

[jbo829]

Hello all I currently run a nightforce SHV 5-20x56 illuminated reticle and I'm just a deer hunter longest shot I can take on my land is 650yd and was wondering about selling the scope to buy a lighter scope still want about the same magnification since I use the scope as Binos as well
What would be a good hunting scope don't matter if I have to dial or hold over or should I just stick with my current scope

 

[SabreCross]

check out the Leupold Mark 5 line. They have Mrad and MOA scopes and they are light.

 

[jbo829]

10-4 I'll look into them this weekend thing is heavy and for reason of me selling it I haven't even set the zero set

 

[Delicatessen]

Another good option if you can find is the bushnell lrhs maybe lrts if you can't find the hs but probably a little less useful reticle and a tad heavier.

 

[huntsman22]

"since I use the scope as Binos as well"

Only dumbchits use their scopes as binoculars.....

 

[huntsman22]

don't be a dumbchit.

 

[huntsman22]

buy some binoculars, work out a little, and quit whining about the weight.

 

[Rich Coyle]

"since I use the scope as Binos as well"

Only dumbchits use their scopes as binoculars.....

He's on his own place. If someone is trespassing they need a good scare.

 

[jbo829]

Huntsman I appreciate the advice bud I'm 24 years old I work scaffold so no work out need I hunt my farm of 164 acres don't like hunting house and use a self climb tree stand to hunt I also hunt the mountains so I walk a lot but shooting off hand with a 12lb+ gun gets old I don't own binos because I don't like them if I do hunt Woods I have an ar with a 1-6 scope that covers my 50 yard shoots

 

[jbo829]

Rich I do have a few traspassers that have stole trail cams and destroyed my only hunting house I did have

 

[huntsman22]

24 years old, and no frigging clue..... didn't someone, ANYONE, teach you that you don't point a rifle at anything you don't want to kill/destroy? It don't fugging matter if you're on your own place, or the chamber is empty. You DON'T point/sweep a firearm of any kind, to 'look' for those wily ol' deers. If I was as clueless as you(and I was a kid once....), I'd dang sure learn to LOVE binocs, just to keep from being a dumbchit. And as to saving weight on your 34 ounce scope, you could shed an ounce by dumping the sunshade. And the suggested vx5 only weighs 9 ounces less, and the LRHS is only 6 ounces lighter than what you got. No way you are getting much lighter and keeping the power range. ob. diameter with anything comparable.

 

[bplumcrazy]

24 years old, and no frigging clue..... didn't someone, ANYONE, teach you that you don't point a rifle at anything you don't want to kill/destroy? It don't fugging matter if you're on your own place, or the chamber is empty. You DON'T point/sweep a firearm of any kind, to 'look' for those wily ol' deers. If I was as clueless as you(and I was a kid once....), I'd dang sure learn to LOVE binocs, just to keep from being a dumbchit.

Totally agree, at my local range a young gunsmith ended up discharging a rifle he was working on. Went through the trailer wall and killed a guy that just got out his truck and started walking to the trailer to pay for a lane.

 

[WeiserBucks]

Regardless of the scope you choose, buy some binoculars and do yourself and all of us a favor.

 

[MajorSpittle]

24 years old, and no frigging clue..... didn't someone, ANYONE, teach you that you don't point a rifle at anything you don't want to kill/destroy? It don't fugging matter if you're on your own place, or the chamber is empty. You DON'T point/sweep a firearm of any kind, to 'look' for those wily ol' deers. If I was as clueless as you(and I was a kid once....), I'd dang sure learn to LOVE binocs, just to keep from being a dumbchit. And as to saving weight on your 34 ounce scope, you could shed an ounce by dumping the sunshade. And the suggested vx5 only weighs 9 ounces less, and the LRHS is only 6 ounces lighter than what you got. No way you are getting much lighter and keeping the power range. ob. diameter with anything comparable.

That escalated quickly.

I personally have pointed guns at all sorts of chit I didn't intend to shoot..... and then didn't shoot it.