100 -1000yd scope choice

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DaleS

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New to 1000yd shooting. I hope to try a 1000yd silhoutte match this year.
I have a Stolle Panda rifle I am going to rebarrel to 6.5 x 284 but I need opinions on scope choice. I have a 36x Weaver but assume there will not be enough adjustment to handle 800 to 1000 yd shooting.
Not wanting to spend any more than needed on a scope,I may not use very much, but still wanting to be competitive what are my choices. It would be nice to be able to adjust from 100yds to 1000yds.

All help would be appreciated
Dale
 
Scope adjustment

You'll probably have to add a 20 MOA scope base to get enough adjustment. I'm not familiar with the benchrest actions so I don't know if you can do that or what options are available to you. I would think a variable power scope would be desireable(?)*. I've only shot 1,000 yds one time with a Leupold Mark 4 4.5-14x50mm (on a 30 MOA base). The broad posts of the duplex reticle bracketed the 42" target at 14X.

*I was shooting 200 m yesterday and was getting some wicked mirage and turned my variables down to 6X and was thinking how that could be a problem with a high (36X) fixed scope. When I shot 1,000 yds at Raton, NM it was early spring, cold, windy and overcast so mirage was not a problem.

I'm trying to find a 1 piece 20 MOA windage base for a Savage that I'm building in 6X47 SM for potentially a 1,000 yd rifle. I have 20 MOA bases on two Remington actions. nhk
 
DaleS said:
New to 1000yd shooting. I hope to try a 1000yd silhoutte match this year.
I have a Stolle Panda rifle I am going to rebarrel to 6.5 x 284 but I need opinions on scope choice. I have a 36x Weaver but assume there will not be enough adjustment to handle 800 to 1000 yd shooting.
Not wanting to spend any more than needed on a scope,I may not use very much, but still wanting to be competitive what are my choices. It would be nice to be able to adjust from 100yds to 1000yds.

All help would be appreciated
Dale
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Dale, use the search function. Your question and variations of it get asked hundreds of times each year on various shooting forums. Google can also yield tons of info. Ass to your assumption, you may be wrong. Do the math, run the ballistics, figure out what you need vs. what you have. Once you know what you need, start searching for the alternatives that will work. IMO, it's better to understand how/why stuff works, rather than just having somebody tell you what to do. The latter is what a robot needs.

As to being competitive at 1,000y, it's about ballistics and reading the wind. If you're really going to be shooting silhouette matches, as in metallic silhouettes, then you need to knock them down maybe? So your load needs to be accurate and have adequate kinetic energy on arrival.
 
nhkuehl said:
I'm trying to find a 1 piece 20 MOA windage base for a Savage that I'm building in 6X47 SM for potentially a 1,000 yd rifle. I have 20 MOA bases on two Remington actions. nhk
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Ken Farrell has a 20 MOA 1-piece base for Savage actions. Have one on my 10FCP. Very nice.

Dale- Farrell may have an MOA base for your action, or maybe the Burris Offset rings with 20 MOA inserts. Just put a set on another rifle but haven't tried them yet. They do get good reviews though.

Cheers,

Mark
 
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