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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 1213222" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>bplum: Too much magnifies shake and wobble and makes newbs take too long to fire as well as encourages muscling the gun instead of getting natural point of aim. There are also issues with exit pupil size in some cases. Too little just makes it hard to see the target finely enough to get the required fineness of aim. Features like adjustable parallax don't make it harder but they are things you need to learn to use correctly. </p><p></p><p>For clanging steel or long range hunting I'd want a scaled reticle as a backup to the LRF but mostly for determining fire corrections. Other than that I'd generally agree with JE Custom. Which I realize is sorta a duh except to say that I've found that scopes at the top end tend to bring some really very high resolution glass to the party which I think justifies the cost because we're talking about very long range where a .338 is concerned. That's not to say that I wouldn't slap a 300 dollar Leupold VX2 on my hunting rifle. I already own the scope I'd use on a .338... US Optics ER-25 5-25x58. The one's OP is considering, I'd think 8x as the low end would be a little much in a lot of cases but I don't envision that being used much under 500m. Just no point in shooting things that close with a .338. Still a 5-25 might be more flexible and easy to use.</p><p></p><p>OP... being as you're beginning long range here's some advise you can take or leave: Get a mentor and a smaller bolt gun like maybe a .223 or a .308 or a 6.5somethingorother, slap a 4-16x-ish scope like a vortex viper or SWFA 5-15HD on it and learn on it from too close out to 1000yrds. You'll save thousands on ammo while you learn about using the gear. Then you can take that .338 out with whatever scope you decide meets your newly educated needs and shoot $5 bills all you want while actually hitting the target. Definitely get a mentor though. Check state specific forums here and ask. Someone will probably be happy as pie to teach you some things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 1213222, member: 96226"] bplum: Too much magnifies shake and wobble and makes newbs take too long to fire as well as encourages muscling the gun instead of getting natural point of aim. There are also issues with exit pupil size in some cases. Too little just makes it hard to see the target finely enough to get the required fineness of aim. Features like adjustable parallax don't make it harder but they are things you need to learn to use correctly. For clanging steel or long range hunting I'd want a scaled reticle as a backup to the LRF but mostly for determining fire corrections. Other than that I'd generally agree with JE Custom. Which I realize is sorta a duh except to say that I've found that scopes at the top end tend to bring some really very high resolution glass to the party which I think justifies the cost because we're talking about very long range where a .338 is concerned. That's not to say that I wouldn't slap a 300 dollar Leupold VX2 on my hunting rifle. I already own the scope I'd use on a .338... US Optics ER-25 5-25x58. The one's OP is considering, I'd think 8x as the low end would be a little much in a lot of cases but I don't envision that being used much under 500m. Just no point in shooting things that close with a .338. Still a 5-25 might be more flexible and easy to use. OP... being as you're beginning long range here's some advise you can take or leave: Get a mentor and a smaller bolt gun like maybe a .223 or a .308 or a 6.5somethingorother, slap a 4-16x-ish scope like a vortex viper or SWFA 5-15HD on it and learn on it from too close out to 1000yrds. You'll save thousands on ammo while you learn about using the gear. Then you can take that .338 out with whatever scope you decide meets your newly educated needs and shoot $5 bills all you want while actually hitting the target. Definitely get a mentor though. Check state specific forums here and ask. Someone will probably be happy as pie to teach you some things. [/QUOTE]
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