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Shooting at a milk jug at 1760 yard (1 mile) with 15x scope, reasonable?
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<blockquote data-quote="Joel Russo" data-source="post: 1289935" data-attributes="member: 6152"><p>Varmint Hunter, yorke-1, and CA48 are spot on.... Optical clarity, resolution, and quality of the prescription lenses on the scope are far more important than magnification.</p><p></p><p>Before I became inundated with making stuff for others to shoot, I would regularly compete at mile matches. We shot 1,000 IBS paper targets both for group size and score. I was always a group shooter, particularly at that distance. My junk would always hang below moa, with some mind blowing groups thrown in when the condition Gods were on my side. I first started with NF optics, then switched to SB. I immediately noticed that I needed less magnification with the higher quality scope that had better resolution, optical clarity, better prescription...... In fact, I would regularly shoot at 16x. I didn't intentionally pick 16x, it just happens to be the sweet spot in magnification given the conditions most of the time. One match I remember looking at the scope after shooting a group and saying holy ****, I shot that on 16x...</p><p></p><p>So, in summary, the higher quality optic will allow less magnification over distance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joel Russo, post: 1289935, member: 6152"] Varmint Hunter, yorke-1, and CA48 are spot on.... Optical clarity, resolution, and quality of the prescription lenses on the scope are far more important than magnification. Before I became inundated with making stuff for others to shoot, I would regularly compete at mile matches. We shot 1,000 IBS paper targets both for group size and score. I was always a group shooter, particularly at that distance. My junk would always hang below moa, with some mind blowing groups thrown in when the condition Gods were on my side. I first started with NF optics, then switched to SB. I immediately noticed that I needed less magnification with the higher quality scope that had better resolution, optical clarity, better prescription...... In fact, I would regularly shoot at 16x. I didn't intentionally pick 16x, it just happens to be the sweet spot in magnification given the conditions most of the time. One match I remember looking at the scope after shooting a group and saying holy ****, I shot that on 16x... So, in summary, the higher quality optic will allow less magnification over distance. [/QUOTE]
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