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Nightforce scopes are one of the more popular scopes used for benchrest competition. I notice that Nightforce does not make a fixed power competition scope. Which Nightforce scope is usually used by benchrest shooters? Which reticle is usually selected?
 
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Not one of the more popular scopes. You see some of them around but truth be told I'd say the majority of BR guns are still 10 1/2 lb. guns and as good as they are they are quite heavy.
 
Around here, there are very popular in score...not so much for group. Quality isn't the issue, it's weight. Most group guns are 10.5lbs and are shot in both heavy and light varmint class. Most score guns are 13.5lbs because the rules don't distingish between the two, except for records consideration.
 
I have had a bunch of different make scopes over the years but the one I have on my 10.5 Turbo right now is my favorite to date. It is a 36X Sightron, the "Regular" one, not the "Big Sky". It has great optics and a tiny reticle with dot. The clicks are true and repeats flawlessly. I have three 6X HBR Sightons which have the same overall quality. I have shot them on HBR rifles for a number of years without issues. MY VFS Rifle has a Brackney frozen 40X Leupold Comp series scope which I trust but I trust the Sightron as much, it being on my RF rifle.
 
This thread may just have the answers for us. Scope shopping. Big sky, Nightforce, Maaaaaaaaarch. Are they worth $2400?
 
Tim,
You said earlier this spring that you might put your March on your 10.5# rimfire, did you try it and if so how does or did it work?
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Pete
 
Well I did'nt want to screw with it until we shot the IBS NYS PRO AM champs at Camillus this past weekend, now that that's done I'll probably throw it on something. My other issue is that I sold my green Swindlehurst once I started to shoot the new Eck 10XIII which barely makes weight with the LCS 45, so I gotta figure out sometxhing .
 
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This thread may just have the answers for us. Scope shopping. Big sky, Nightforce, Maaaaaaaaarch. Are they worth $2400?
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Of course not. They simply charge what they think the market will stand. If people stopped buying them at $2400 within 6 months they would be $2000 or less.
 
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Of course not. They simply charge what they think the market will stand. If people stopped buying them at $2400 within 6 months they would be $2000 or less.
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The price of the Toys seperates the Men from the Boys, and so it be true. I have heard said, throughout the years, one should pay as much for their scope as they do their rifle. Using that logic, a March is priced about right. Me being on a Fixed Income now, I can't justify buying one of them. I'd rather spend on a new rifle and take a chance on a $400 scope; realizing the potential pitfalls. Of curse, one can get 6 Sightrons for the price of one March and surely two of those 6 will be True.
 
Pete

I am fortunate to have as a shooting buddy someone who works for one of the top flight european optics companies in a highly technical job role. I would take his technical evaluation of any optical products real term performance and quality in regards to maximising VFM every day of the week. Hence my Nope!
 
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Pete

I am fortunate to have as a shooting buddy someone who works for one of the top flight european optics companies in a highly technical job role. I would take his technical evaluation of any optical products real term performance and quality in regards to maximising VFM every day of the week. Hence my Nope![/QUOTE


And yet another reason the world of "keyboard benchrest" is so interesting. I'd bet the Hamster here has never been within a mile of a March.

A bit of history/perspective here, there's a reason these scopes have become prominent on the podium at venues such as the Super Shoot. It has been reported that Leupold has taken apart and reviewed them and indicated the price could not be easily replicated. They are the best BR optic available at ANY price point.

What most do not understand is that the single most important job of a BR optic is to hold POI.

Now, all this being said, it remains to be seen as to wether this is required in RF. The demands are less as to distance, mirage, and recoil. Time will tell.
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You would be correct Timbo. I haven't had the opportunity to sit behind a March. Although my shooting buddy most certainly has. He too will have been part of the team that would have stripped them down for inhouse evaluation. Likewise I'm sure you have never had the opportunity to squint down a $3000 S&B PMII. Fortunately for me I have and very good they are too.

Had I not, I always have access to someone who can has and he has the knowledge to give a concise technical performance v VFM evaluation. As in all things in this world its not what you think you know, its who you know that counts.
 
Lynn, his point is to sound knowledgeable without the actual knowledge, to post for the sake of posting. You'll never see a link because I'd bet none exists. I would'nt be the least bit surprised if Hammy's friend is named Harvy and has long ears.
 
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... I would'nt be the least bit surprised if Hammy's friend is named Harvy and has long ears.
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Or knows lots about optics, but nothing about benchrest. Because of my eyes, I shoot at a fuzzy target all the time. Not a problem. But if the crosshairs don't return exactly the same after a shot -- what Tim referred to as POI issues -- the scope's not useable. It doesn't take much. The mechanism for internally adjustable scopes is critical; the optical quality far less so.
 
He's shot BR but prefers f-class and tactical. The reason I mentioned the S&B PMII is it has first class optical performance thanks to its high class european lenses as well as the neccessary quality of constuction to return to POI each and every time. OTT for .22br I agree. LOL

If you think $2400 scopes equate to VFM. I wish you well. I'm perhaps more aware of how POS pricing actually works.
 
Well there Hammy, since you envoked the European glass issue do a little homework, among the reasons the March's cost more is because they use ED glass, and pretty much the only BR scope that does.
 
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