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dpapadimitrio@g
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Price of confidence...
Friend bought a nice new hunting rifle 2 seasons ago. He had a Winchester his dad gave him and wanted one of the new "ultra mag" caliber. Bought the gun and transferred the inexpensive scope that was on his dad's rifle.
Went to the range and couldn't sight the gun in, he'd make scope adjustments and the impact point would just kind of wander around. Suggested he go out and buy a Leupold (not knocking March). He did as suggested, went thru how to sight thru the bore, get close, and how to get the scope on target in about 3 rounds down the barrel.
He followed the instructions and was dumbfounded when impact point at 100 yds matched the adjustments he'd made to the scope
Had Him buy 2 boxes of ammo (same lot, that was a surprise too), use 1 for sighting in and practice, and used the 2nd round out of the other box to knock down an Elk, 1 shot at @ 200 yards.
He commented he had total confidence his gun would hit what he was aiming at if he did his part, had never had that kind of confidence in the old Winchester (no reason not to, he's buying a Leupold for it this year).
Moral of the story is, you have to have utter confidence in your equipment, and that it will get the job done, provided the nut behind the butt plate does their job.
Sometimes its the cost of the Sightron, sometimes the March. The more variation you are able to take out of the equation the more important the March becomes....
Good shooting to all
Friend bought a nice new hunting rifle 2 seasons ago. He had a Winchester his dad gave him and wanted one of the new "ultra mag" caliber. Bought the gun and transferred the inexpensive scope that was on his dad's rifle.
Went to the range and couldn't sight the gun in, he'd make scope adjustments and the impact point would just kind of wander around. Suggested he go out and buy a Leupold (not knocking March). He did as suggested, went thru how to sight thru the bore, get close, and how to get the scope on target in about 3 rounds down the barrel.
He followed the instructions and was dumbfounded when impact point at 100 yds matched the adjustments he'd made to the scope
Had Him buy 2 boxes of ammo (same lot, that was a surprise too), use 1 for sighting in and practice, and used the 2nd round out of the other box to knock down an Elk, 1 shot at @ 200 yards.
He commented he had total confidence his gun would hit what he was aiming at if he did his part, had never had that kind of confidence in the old Winchester (no reason not to, he's buying a Leupold for it this year).
Moral of the story is, you have to have utter confidence in your equipment, and that it will get the job done, provided the nut behind the butt plate does their job.
Sometimes its the cost of the Sightron, sometimes the March. The more variation you are able to take out of the equation the more important the March becomes....
Good shooting to all