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Advice on hunting scopes with quality turrets
Karl Blanchard:
All this glass quality talk makes me feel the need to remind everyone that the ONLY two attributes that matter with a scope is reliability of tracking and zero retention. Every scope on the market and certainly the ones in this price point have adequate optical clarity to put rounds on target during legal hunting light but only of those other two functions are reliable.
zwickeyman:
--- Quote from: Karl Blanchard on April 12, 2024, 01:24:30 PM ---All this glass quality talk makes me feel the need to remind everyone that the ONLY two attributes that matter with a scope is reliability of tracking and zero retention. Every scope on the market and certainly the ones in this price point have adequate optical clarity to put rounds on target during legal hunting light but only of those other two functions are reliable.
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I do understand what you are saying. Reticle is more important to me than glass quality but you are right and the only reason Im moving on from 3 VX5's is reliabilty. They have never let me down on an animal but why chance it. I put a lot of trigger time in and same with load development and I bust my ass so if I ever miss I want it to be my fault not the scopes
Karl Blanchard:
--- Quote from: zwickeyman on April 12, 2024, 01:38:13 PM ---
--- Quote from: Karl Blanchard on April 12, 2024, 01:24:30 PM ---All this glass quality talk makes me feel the need to remind everyone that the ONLY two attributes that matter with a scope is reliability of tracking and zero retention. Every scope on the market and certainly the ones in this price point have adequate optical clarity to put rounds on target during legal hunting light but only of those other two functions are reliable.
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I do understand what you are saying. Reticle is more important to me than glass quality but you are right and the only reason Im moving on from 3 VX5's is reliabilty. They have never let me down on an animal but why chance it. I put a lot of trigger time in and same with load development and I bust my ass so if I ever miss I want it to be my fault not the scopes
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For sure and I hope you didn't take my statement as critiquing you specifically. Just saw an opportunity to make a general statement I feel is important to point out for anyone reading this. :tup:
zwickeyman:
--- Quote from: Karl Blanchard on April 12, 2024, 01:53:17 PM ---
--- Quote from: zwickeyman on April 12, 2024, 01:38:13 PM ---
--- Quote from: Karl Blanchard on April 12, 2024, 01:24:30 PM ---All this glass quality talk makes me feel the need to remind everyone that the ONLY two attributes that matter with a scope is reliability of tracking and zero retention. Every scope on the market and certainly the ones in this price point have adequate optical clarity to put rounds on target during legal hunting light but only of those other two functions are reliable.
--- End quote ---
I do understand what you are saying. Reticle is more important to me than glass quality but you are right and the only reason Im moving on from 3 VX5's is reliabilty. They have never let me down on an animal but why chance it. I put a lot of trigger time in and same with load development and I bust my ass so if I ever miss I want it to be my fault not the scopes
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For sure and I hope you didn't take my statement as critiquing you specifically. Just saw an opportunity to make a general statement I feel is important to point out for anyone reading this. :tup:
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No offense taken at all. I appreciate the input
b23:
--- Quote from: Karl Blanchard on April 12, 2024, 01:24:30 PM ---All this glass quality talk makes me feel the need to remind everyone that the ONLY two attributes that matter with a scope is reliability of tracking and zero retention. Every scope on the market and certainly the ones in this price point have adequate optical clarity to put rounds on target during legal hunting light but only of those other two functions are reliable.
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Bingo! That's why I always suggest to folks if they can find a good clean used NXS with zero stops and save themselves around a grand or more depending on the model that's just that much more they can spend on components or other stuff.
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