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Which scope choice for Alaskan Dall Sheep hunt?
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<blockquote data-quote="devins" data-source="post: 1043959" data-attributes="member: 27441"><p>Thanks Chandalar, One of my old hunting grounds is a great place for me to practice. It has 17 different canyons and places to set up to shoot up to a mile and everything in between. Part of my practice /exercise regimen is tossing on the pack and rifle and going up and down the canyons then crest out and pick a target rock or stump and make a shot. I have a lot of good locations there that I can get 30 and a few that can be a little more on the incline. And you confirmed everything I was thinking on the BC reticle. I am very confident in my Boone and Crockett reticle on the rifle it is on because I have used it on that rifle, a heavy 308 Norma Magnum. I have time to move it and practice with it and confirm its trajectory estimates with what they actually are but then I wonder would I like the turret put on the Conquest and then have a turret from Kenton Ind. made specifically for my load. I get hung up on if I am relying on my Boone and Crockett reticle, which I really like and my range finder goes down I am going to be limited. Where as if I go a simple reticle for speed and confidence and have a turret for any longer shots it will be use the range finder compensating for the angle, click, and shoot. I have scopes with moa reticles that I really like when time is not an issue but I have had an experience with one monster buck crossing on me and me counting lines on the reticle, oops he was gone. So I am thinking simple and like you said practice, practice, practice. I would love to have that cup of coffee but am going to be a little south of there. Maybe next time. Same goes this way. And love milk jugs too by the way. My Dad was an old reserve drill instructor, did some grenade instructing and was trained to be a rifle instructor. He taught me to shoot on jugs but the reward was the first time we had one together sitting way out in a wheat field and I had him range it and help me dope the wind. We adjusted the elevation turret and he would not take the shot but insisted I did. Nice first shot splash. I figured out later he was wanting to see the splash rather than possibly miss it in the recoil. But I hadn't seen him grin like that for a while. Since then we built him a 6mm Rem to play with. He will turn 75 in a couple of months. That is good stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="devins, post: 1043959, member: 27441"] Thanks Chandalar, One of my old hunting grounds is a great place for me to practice. It has 17 different canyons and places to set up to shoot up to a mile and everything in between. Part of my practice /exercise regimen is tossing on the pack and rifle and going up and down the canyons then crest out and pick a target rock or stump and make a shot. I have a lot of good locations there that I can get 30 and a few that can be a little more on the incline. And you confirmed everything I was thinking on the BC reticle. I am very confident in my Boone and Crockett reticle on the rifle it is on because I have used it on that rifle, a heavy 308 Norma Magnum. I have time to move it and practice with it and confirm its trajectory estimates with what they actually are but then I wonder would I like the turret put on the Conquest and then have a turret from Kenton Ind. made specifically for my load. I get hung up on if I am relying on my Boone and Crockett reticle, which I really like and my range finder goes down I am going to be limited. Where as if I go a simple reticle for speed and confidence and have a turret for any longer shots it will be use the range finder compensating for the angle, click, and shoot. I have scopes with moa reticles that I really like when time is not an issue but I have had an experience with one monster buck crossing on me and me counting lines on the reticle, oops he was gone. So I am thinking simple and like you said practice, practice, practice. I would love to have that cup of coffee but am going to be a little south of there. Maybe next time. Same goes this way. And love milk jugs too by the way. My Dad was an old reserve drill instructor, did some grenade instructing and was trained to be a rifle instructor. He taught me to shoot on jugs but the reward was the first time we had one together sitting way out in a wheat field and I had him range it and help me dope the wind. We adjusted the elevation turret and he would not take the shot but insisted I did. Nice first shot splash. I figured out later he was wanting to see the splash rather than possibly miss it in the recoil. But I hadn't seen him grin like that for a while. Since then we built him a 6mm Rem to play with. He will turn 75 in a couple of months. That is good stuff. [/QUOTE]
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