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The Basics, Starting Out
made it to 300, 600 is beating me to pieces.
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<blockquote data-quote="kshunter" data-source="post: 1049679" data-attributes="member: 19377"><p>I agree with the previous advice. Several years ago when I first started extending my abilities I ran into a similar road block. I got to the same 600yd mark and things fell apart. My rifle wasn't nearly as accurate at 300yds as yours so hand loading was a must for accuracy sake. The most glaring issue was my optic. I had plenty of internal adjustment and a mil dot reticle for holdover however I had no parallax adjustment. Past the 600 yd mark my groups opened up significantly. I replaced this with an inexpensive bushnell banner 6-24 mil dot with an adjustable objective. I'm not recommending this scope just making a point that a similarly priced optic with the ability to adjust parallax allowed me to go from all over an 18"x24" target at 600 or 700 yds to 5" groups at 750yds. My personal base criteria for a medium to long range scope are as follows: something with at least 10x magnification, finger adjustable turrets, parallax adjustment of some kind, and a hold over reticle. I know everyone has their preference and more is usually better but the combination of these things has allowed me to have lots of fun, ring steel and kill lots of critters over the years with my old factory barreled savage 110 chambered in 30-06. Hope this helps. Have fun with your new equipment whatever you pick!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kshunter, post: 1049679, member: 19377"] I agree with the previous advice. Several years ago when I first started extending my abilities I ran into a similar road block. I got to the same 600yd mark and things fell apart. My rifle wasn't nearly as accurate at 300yds as yours so hand loading was a must for accuracy sake. The most glaring issue was my optic. I had plenty of internal adjustment and a mil dot reticle for holdover however I had no parallax adjustment. Past the 600 yd mark my groups opened up significantly. I replaced this with an inexpensive bushnell banner 6-24 mil dot with an adjustable objective. I'm not recommending this scope just making a point that a similarly priced optic with the ability to adjust parallax allowed me to go from all over an 18"x24" target at 600 or 700 yds to 5" groups at 750yds. My personal base criteria for a medium to long range scope are as follows: something with at least 10x magnification, finger adjustable turrets, parallax adjustment of some kind, and a hold over reticle. I know everyone has their preference and more is usually better but the combination of these things has allowed me to have lots of fun, ring steel and kill lots of critters over the years with my old factory barreled savage 110 chambered in 30-06. Hope this helps. Have fun with your new equipment whatever you pick! [/QUOTE]
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