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Originally Posted by nathangdad  I now live in the Texas Panhandle. Lots of relatively (and actually)
flat plains so I totally recommend a higher quality scope as, once the shooting begins, they are often small targets at an uncomfortable distance. Otherwise, be sure your are sighted in and comfortable with prone shooting (for here, anyway).
Good luck and good hunting! |
Nathan has a point, I forgot also, I just don't use it. You can easily position yourself to shoot prone off the ground in most dog towns, even in broken country. But, take a ground mat, such as 30" wide piece of used carpet or similar. There is small cactus in that country(sometimes un-noticable, till a body part with weight is on them), and even small rocks can make for uncomortable prone shooting.
Good glass is always plus, I use Burris or Leupy's for the most part. I'm putting a Leupy 45x Comp on the XP when it gets back. And there are others, that make Leupy's look cheap. One know of, can't quite recall the name, probably cuz of it's price. But, it has a ranging reticle thats tied to its own PDA, use the reticle to range, and a couple of key strokes later it tells you where to hold using the grid in the reticle. I think they were only like $2300. But NightForce, Swarovski, Schmidt-Bender, I know theres a few more I'm forgetting, all good pushing the high end. On the other hand, I put a Swift on my son's gun, it tracks like it should, and clarity ain't too bad. It does start to get a little less clear on the perimeter on the highest setting. I wouldn't hesitate recommending them with a tight budget in mind.
Given a choice, I would rather go with 3-600 dollar scope and a 8-900 dollar range finder, than the other way around. Not saying that thats the right way, just how I look at it.
Shooting PD's is just plain fun no matter what your equipment and gun. But it seems, once you start busting PD's consistantly at the 3-5 or 600yd. range, it starts to get alil boring, for me at least. Some keep pushing the distance for the challenge. Then too, longrange shooting can become addicting, and striving for those longest shots can get costly if you choose to go that way, Spending top dollar has it benefits without a doubt in my mind, but it ain't always necessary. First and foremost, are good consistant shooting fundamentals.
But you'll have a blast no matter what.
Dave