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JerryM · August 15, 2012, 07:55 AM

It will work, but is a larger scope than I would buy.

I would never sight in a magnum for less than 250 yards, and 3 inches high at 100 yards is the perfect hunting range.
If you know your trajectory you don't have to worry about hold over until you pass 350. I don't have much use for a bunch of aim points in the scope. Learn your rifle and trajectory and you will not need them at game ranges.

I see on TV folks with such scopes, range finders, and bipods. The game has to wait a long time to get shot.
Jerry

August 15, 2012, 07:55 AM	#5
JerryM Senior Member Join Date: April 4, 1999 Location: New Mexico Posts: 1,889	It will work, but is a larger scope than I would buy. I would never sight in a magnum for less than 250 yards, and 3 inches high at 100 yards is the perfect hunting range. If you know your trajectory you don't have to worry about hold over until you pass 350. I don't have much use for a bunch of aim points in the scope. Learn your rifle and trajectory and you will not need them at game ranges. I see on TV folks with such scopes, range finders, and bipods. The game has to wait a long time to get shot. Jerry __________________ Ecclesiastes 12:13 ¶Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.