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Re: Nikon scopes!
« Reply #30 on: March 08, 2014, 09:33:58 PM »
For general hunting purposes, a 3-9x is ideal.  the only instance I found more magnification to be needed was on my rifles I use for Ground Squirrel shooting, and I doubt you'll be using a .270 on those...  :chuckle:
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Re: Nikon scopes!
« Reply #31 on: March 10, 2014, 09:05:22 AM »
For general hunting purposes, a 3-9x is ideal.  the only instance I found more magnification to be needed was on my rifles I use for Ground Squirrel shooting, and I doubt you'll be using a .270 on those...  :chuckle:
No for ground Squirrels i will stick with my Marlin 39a .22 with the peep sight.  That thing is amazing!
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Re: Nikon scopes!
« Reply #32 on: March 10, 2014, 09:31:06 AM »

Has the BDC always been circles???  I thought it use to be hash marks.  I am not sure I would like the circles either.  My Leupold has hash marks.

Anyone is free to correct me if i'm wrong but Im pretty sure it is for Nikon. Leupy and Zeiss seem to stick with the hash marks. With Zeiss you can go to their website and type in your load particulars and get a yardage for each corresponding has mark.  If i get around to that I'll likely make a small printout and tape it to my stock.




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Re: Nikon scopes!
« Reply #33 on: March 10, 2014, 09:37:26 AM »
For general hunting purposes, a 3-9x is ideal.  the only instance I found more magnification to be needed was on my rifles I use for Ground Squirrel shooting, and I doubt you'll be using a .270 on those...  :chuckle:
No for ground Squirrels i will stick with my Marlin 39a .22 with the peep sight.  That thing is amazing!

I think on my next Ground Squirrel trip I'll take my pellet guns.  They all have scopes, though.  When your eyes get older you learn to like optics more!  :chuckle:  Seriously, though, a 3-9x is ideal for hunting.  Keep it on the 3 to 4x setting for hunting.  It's a lot easier to get on target quickly on lower magnification.  (I found this out the hard way!)  :tup:
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Re: Nikon scopes!
« Reply #34 on: March 10, 2014, 09:47:32 AM »

Has the BDC always been circles???  I thought it use to be hash marks.  I am not sure I would like the circles either.  My Leupold has hash marks.

Anyone is free to correct me if i'm wrong but Im pretty sure it is for Nikon. Leupy and Zeiss seem to stick with the hash marks. With Zeiss you can go to their website and type in your load particulars and get a yardage for each corresponding has mark.  If i get around to that I'll likely make a small printout and tape it to my stock.

The circles are unique to the Nikon Coyote Special scopes, and it's called the Predator Reticle.  The rest of the line of Nikons is available with the BDC Reticle--Dots or hash marks, I don't know which.  Regardless of the reticle, you need to test your specific loads as to how they correspond to the drop marks in the reticle.  The reticle is not "One Size Fits All".  :chuckle:
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