Recent content by brogers

I agree on Leupold. It will not let you down and is more than adequate elevation.

A BSA will beat it all to hell for a lot less money. The 6.5 to 24 Contender will eat it's lunch. I don't sell scopes just based on experience with both.

The 4500 is an excellent piece of optics. Enjoy it.

I bought one of the Nikon discovery series 15to45X60(made in China) jobs for the fairly high price of $299. Promptly took it out with the local Police Sniper and checked it on bullet holes out to 1 click. It was impossible to tell that the Leupold was better. It cost about 3 times the Nikon. Go...

What power and which brand type etc. Do long range hunter employ. Give us your opinion?

Having tried some of the new plastic nose cones and varying results, it takes me back to when I did a little large game hunting and was in the market for accurate and good performing bullets. It seems we go our best results with Nosler Particians but out best accuracy was with the Speer Gran...

Lemme say one more thing, nothing here should be construded to mean there are no difference between mounts. Some aren't worth the time it takes to bolt them on. Others are efficient and don't cost a lot. You can't hurt by putting on good (and expensive) mounts if you see to the stresses on those...

I just noticed that my answer didn't get posted. (I probably did something stupid). On stresses, what I am referring too is the heating and cooling (uneven in the action between front and back due to proximity of the chamber.) The scope tube goes through some of this in spite of anything but...

I've used one and it works as well as any of the Lazer's but I use boresighters for many other things the Lazer doesn't do well. Checking clicks and moving scopes from one gun to another while maintaining zero. Checking power ring shift etc. Actually bore sighters are more efficient at these...

David; You have some real good advice already and I'm gonna go with the idea he is setting your neck back too far with all that lube. IF it can produce a dimple like that it can sure push back on the neck. The full length resize alone could make your softball into a basket ball with a cartridge...

guys! I don't throw rocks at those who use "tactical" (translate "beefed up") rings but I don't use em. (I have) My thinking is that they emphasize the misalighnment inherit in the system unless you lap them (a laborous procedure)to overcome this. The standard Hunting mounts made by Lupy and z...

Ken; you zactly right. I use variables but I sure have gone through a passle of them to find a very small number that work fairly well. My favorite scope is a fixed 12 Leupold. I wish they would make this in mil-dot matte finish. Another thing I might touch on is the feeling that a scope has to...

I see a very interesting topic and the approach with different scopes is unusual but again interesting. Variable scopes vary much in quality. They don't usually vary as much as mounts do when changing them, but I've no experience with the mount mentioned. I will check that one out. IF one is to...

Great job, thats what it's all about up there. Very often the big one only presents itself at great range or for 2 seconds in the birch forest. Long range and trophy hunting are naturals for each other. Anyway a ballistic tip no less. Very interesting.

Ian; I wonder where the 27.77 comes from you mentioned? I noticed (and others have reported) that they constantly underestimate the range with the programs on Shooterready. Although I tend to do that in the real world with Mil-dots it's not nearly so much as the program. Anyway I too recommend...