Anyone else swap scopes?

[Buffalobwana]

About 7 years ago I was watching a long range shooting video with Todd Hodnett, where he had his students remove their scope and pass it to the guy to the right.

Everyone sighted in and carried on shooting.

Got me thinking.

I gathered up all my $300-$500 scopes (3-9x and higher), vx3's, Vortex, Swarovski, Leica's and a Nightforce and sold them. (Kept all my LPVO scopes)

I bought two VX6 3-18x56 and put one in a LaRue QD mount (for AR platform) and one in Leupold steel rings for bolt actions w picatinny mounts.

Theses two scopes floated between 8-10 rifles for about 5 years.

I don't regret it at all.

I got really good at getting sighted in in 3-4 rounds. Yeah, it was a bit of an inconvenience, but to be able to use really good glass, it was worth it.

Since then I have added another VX6 4-24 and an Arken … just to have an alternate.

Anyone else do this?

 

[Rick Richard]

I have, but I try not to.

 

[Buffalobwana]

I have, but I try not to.

Yeah, we all do occasionally. I guess my point was more about consolidating assets to enjoy $2k glass.

 

[DoneNOut]

This has hit my thought filter many times.

- The problem is mounting uniformity and use category contamination.
I'm at the thought stage now of:

Precision scope of 20X min, or Red dot. No in-betweens. If I need a scope, I need a real scope. If I need to shoot stuff outside of real scope use then it's red dot and 3X magnifier.

I too have a VX6HD 1-6 in Larue mount...

 

[Prairie Sasquatch]

I've thought about doing this. I've also thought about selling everything but my 22-250, my 6.5-284 and then buying a really accurate 7mm in a SAUM, PRC or 28 Nosler. This would probably cover everything I'd ever need and put cash in my pocket. Not to mention clean up my reloading bench.

But I like shooting my .243's, 25-06, 270 WSM, 7 rem mag etc.

I've told my wife and daughters if I die to just have an auction of all my hunting and fishing stuff and go spend the money on whatever you want.

 

[DoneNOut]

One of the most hilarious jokes I tell myself is, "Oh just write down the zeros of all the guns and use one scope"...

 

[xsn10s]

Yeah, we all do occasionally. I guess my point was more about consolidating assets to enjoy $2k glass.

I'm trying to do this with the rifles I have. Consolidate to acquire better gear. But it's hard to do lol.

 

[Huntnful]

I kind of tried this, and all I ended up with was more rifles and more expensive scopes to go on them. So it didn't work for me haha.

Feels weird not being able to pull a gun out of the safe and just go kill something with it if need. If you're just strictly shooting targets. Probably not a big issue

 

[akdad]

I was going to do this but that made me think maybe i should just downsize rifle numbers and use less more.
Then I realized I was being an idiot and bought more rifles!
It's never really worked for me to over think things anyway.

 

[BrentM]

Sure. 1 piece mounts makes it even easier to swap. I don't prefer it but I've done this a pile of times. I have notes in my phone from swaps or even barrel changes to get it close. Like you, I can be solid in a few shots, not a big deal.

 

[Lonewolf74]

I certainly don't have anything against doing this but to me it's like having a switch barrel rifle…you still need to tinker and zero anytime you switch the scope or barrel which just ain't appealing to me.

Guess maybe it's just my nature that I like to tune and tinker with something till it's dialed in, then I don't wanna have to touch it again.

To each their own but I think I'd rather consolidate rifles/chamberings then have to switch scopes or barrels back and forth.

 

[Shane Lindsey]

Makes a range day hard when you are trying to test cold bore/follow up on several rifles.

Great idea, but remember, he caters to the "down range" crowd. They typically only have one rifle out with them at a time.

If I could become a one rifle guy, this would make sense. But I get too bored.

 

[DoneNOut]

Makes a range day hard when you are trying to test cold bore/follow up on several rifles.

Great idea, but remember, he caters to the "down range" crowd. They typically only have one rifle out with them at a time.

If I could become a one rifle guy, this would make sense. But I get too bored.

Yup, that settles it. No swapping here!

 

[xsn10s]

I've done this, actually just did it a week or two ago. But for me it's not ideal. I tend to get rifles set up and leave them alone. My PSS was set up the same way for 29 years. I then swapped a scope on it. It's back to it's original set up again.