Best Spotting Scope for 300 yds......30 caliber ?

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What is the best spotting scope amd specifications for clearly seeing 30 caliber at 300 yds. ?
 
Dude! If you can't see 30's at 300 with your SCOPE something's wrong! :)

That's a perty easy poke, any spotting scope'll do IMO

al
 
alinwa said:
Dude! If you can't see 30's at 300 with your SCOPE something's wrong! :)

That's a perty easy poke, any spotting scope'll do IMO

al
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Any thing that costs more than my last pair of glasses
 
try looking at optics planet....spotting scopes......celeastron....80 mm is under 300, 100mm is just over( the 100mm is 22 to 67 power)
the 100 i can see 6mm holes at 1000 in the white and lite blue of our targets..not in the lines tho.
what color is your target...if it is black...i'm not sure 300 bucks will get you there when the litghting is wrong...

mike in co
 
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A .3o cal. hole at 300 yrds. Put a hole in the black, and see where it is. I have a 24-63 Unertl, you better have good veiwing conditons to do that. I am talking about not having a spotting marker of course.
 
Depends on how good your eyes are and which direction the targets face. On a range where the targets face away from the sun (north for us on this side of the equator) it can be very hard to see holes in the black on a target. After busting a spotting scope I'd had I bought a Celestron 100 mm from Amazon.com for under $300 last year, and even with my lousy eyesight I can now see bullet holes fairly clearly. As Mike says though if the lighting is wrong you're liable to have to spend a pile of $$ and might still not be able to see the holes.
 
alinwa said:
Dude! If you can't see 30's at 300 with your SCOPE something's wrong! :)

That's a perty easy poke, any spotting scope'll do IMO

al
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I beg to differ, on a lot of summer days the mirage can make it very difficult to see .30 cal holes at 300 yards. I wish this were not so but it is, the best scope I have seen so far for this is my friends $2600 ED Swarovski, it is noticeably better (just a little) than my $500 Nikon. I will agree on a good day almost anything will do. The old Nikon ED scope that was just under $1000 is the scope I wish I had but they no longer make it.

Dick
 
If the mirage is so bad that you can't see holes in the black at 300 yards - you probably ain't going to have no holes in the black to see. :cool:

Ray
 
mr al..
u make ASSumption that he is shooting with a scope.....them iron sight/match sight guys are still out there...
few shoot 30 cal now ....wonder just what is he doing....

mike in co
alinwa said:
Dude! If you can't see 30's at 300 with your SCOPE something's wrong! :)

That's a perty easy poke, any spotting scope'll do IMO

al
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Mike has a point,
I still have two iron only guns, and cant bring myself to scope them
Have always had Zeiss spotting scopes still have a Dialyt 25x56 but use a 20-75 85mm Zeiss now next I think will be one of the scopes the national observatory uses or lasic
 
i was thinking of asking the same question but out to 500yrds as a max distance

i was hoping for coments or if some one had experience with the Orion ULX 66mm ED Zoom Spotting Scope ... ?

its been on top of my list as a possible choice an any answers may be a big help with Southj an his quest...

thanks
 
ed helps if you have a red or orange target..no big thing with black/white..
hole resolution is based on the objective dia.....the bigger the better.....but dollars always beat low quality.
the scope i reccommded is a great scope for the money..it is not a kowa. lica, etc...
mike in co
MrGee said:
i was thinking of asking the same question but out to 500yrds as a max distance

i was hoping for coments or if some one had experience with the Orion ULX 66mm ED Zoom Spotting Scope ... ?

its been on top of my list as a possible choice an any answers may be a big help with Southj an his quest...

thanks
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Yep,
Objective diameter is directly tied to resolution....seeing finely separate objects or small objects. The other issue is contrast....does the scope show white as white and black as black and not as different shades of gray? There is no substitute for $$ when it comes to optics and sometimes even that fails. In conventional refractor configurations, Kowa, Nikon, Zeiss, Leica, Swarovski are tough to beat...and pay for! Then on a bad mirage day(mirage as in lots of hot air rising from the ground, temp differentials at differnent heights off the ground) not much is going to help you on a BAD day. --Greg
 
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