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First vs second focal plane for Hunting
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<blockquote data-quote="25WSM" data-source="post: 1713030" data-attributes="member: 38048"><p>This is a long range hunting forum. Not 1000 yard hunting forum. The op stated his max shots would be 500 and under. 90% of hunters would call 500 a long shot. With that being said for woods hunting and some field edge hunting out to 500 I would use a second focal plane every time. I love my ffp scopes for banging steel at multiple yardage. But like as has been said in the woods the size of the reticle on ffp scopes are tiny and very hard to see. Mine virtually disappear in the woods. Now for hunting 500 out in the open the ffp comes into its own and is great. I personally can make 1000 yard shots with a sfp scope easily at 1000 yards. I shot one of my best 10 shot groups on 15 power in heavy mirage. The group was 5.2 inches with a 6 slr. I compete at 1000 yards so it's easy for me to do the dial ups. Make it 2k and I would be peeing my pants.</p><p>So basically most of my hunting rigs have sfp with yardage caps on the elevation turret. So get a good ballistic calculator on your phone and practice with it. Learn your dial ups. Print them out an a little piece of paper and tape it in your scope cap. And practice at a range with steel. Take a yardage reading. Make the dial up. And shoot. In short order you will find 500 yards boring. When you are consistently hit at 8 9 and 1000 plus yards you will look at the 500 gong and say nah your to easy. When you go on your hunt you will make your shot with confidence. I like Leopold cds scopes for hunting but there are plenty of scope that have yardage turrets. Good luck Shep</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="25WSM, post: 1713030, member: 38048"] This is a long range hunting forum. Not 1000 yard hunting forum. The op stated his max shots would be 500 and under. 90% of hunters would call 500 a long shot. With that being said for woods hunting and some field edge hunting out to 500 I would use a second focal plane every time. I love my ffp scopes for banging steel at multiple yardage. But like as has been said in the woods the size of the reticle on ffp scopes are tiny and very hard to see. Mine virtually disappear in the woods. Now for hunting 500 out in the open the ffp comes into its own and is great. I personally can make 1000 yard shots with a sfp scope easily at 1000 yards. I shot one of my best 10 shot groups on 15 power in heavy mirage. The group was 5.2 inches with a 6 slr. I compete at 1000 yards so it's easy for me to do the dial ups. Make it 2k and I would be peeing my pants. So basically most of my hunting rigs have sfp with yardage caps on the elevation turret. So get a good ballistic calculator on your phone and practice with it. Learn your dial ups. Print them out an a little piece of paper and tape it in your scope cap. And practice at a range with steel. Take a yardage reading. Make the dial up. And shoot. In short order you will find 500 yards boring. When you are consistently hit at 8 9 and 1000 plus yards you will look at the 500 gong and say nah your to easy. When you go on your hunt you will make your shot with confidence. I like Leopold cds scopes for hunting but there are plenty of scope that have yardage turrets. Good luck Shep [/QUOTE]
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