6BR scope choice help

[dave300]

Hello all, new on here and I am getting close to receiving my new 6BR build. It is goiong to have a 8 twist and I built this for the girlfriend and kids to use when hunting antelope and mulies. I anticipate using 105-107 grains boolits.
I am a nightforce guy and would like to stay with a nightforce. My question is more towards magnification range for 6BR. Not expecting the range to exceed 600 yards, but after familarizing myself with the build maybe it will extend past that?
Any opinions or experience will be greatly appreciated.
I have a 5.5x22x50 MOAR reticle not attached any gun now, is this to much scope? 3.5x15x50 a better option.
Thanks, Dave

 

[coford]

Dave,

I run an 8 X 32 Nightforce BR on my Savage BR and there are times I wish I had more magnification. I use it mostly for 600 yard F Class but also some varmint shooting. If it is for a less experienced shooter less power might be easier to use. Your mileage may vary.

 

[jamesgang]

I run the new NF Comp 15-55 and all the other shooters that have put an eye to it say it's one of the best made and brightest they've seen. Most of these guys are running the older NF Benchrest versions.
I went with the DDR reticle for long range F-Class.

 

[Steve3]

Can I ask how both of you are mounting the Nightforce, bases, ring height?

 

[Justin1098]

15-55 for hunting antelope?

 

[jamesgang]

Can I ask how both of you are mounting the Nightforce, bases, ring height?

I stuck with all NF from the receiver up.
http://www.midwayusa.com/product/257649/nightforce-1-piece-20-moa-picatinny-style-scope-base-savage-10-through-16-round-rear-matte

and

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/316838/nightforce-30mm-picatinny-style-rings-matte-medium

holding the

http://www.midwayusa.com/Product/354067

 

[mattlewis]

i guess everybody is different. for hunting i wouldn't want anything over 10x magnification. i've got a 2.5-10 PST on mine, and have shot 8" steel with it at 600 yards, and never once wished for more magnification.

 

[Steve3]

jamesgang - Many thanks !

 

[coford]

Sorry it took so long to answer your question. I have Burris Signature tall rings on a 20 moa Warne base. just clears the barrel on my Savage Benchrest.

 

[snakepit]

Sightron III 10-50X60. EGW 20 MOA base, EGW rings. Same combination on my 6BR and .308 both of which I usually shoot only at 600 yds.

 

[Gman]

I run the new NF Comp 15-55 and all the other shooters that have put an eye to it say it's one of the best made and brightest they've seen. Most of these guys are running the older NF Benchrest versions.
I went with the DDR reticle for long range F-Class.

Sorry, but the 15-55x 52mm Comp models are NOT as bright as the BR series. The BR series have a 56mm objecive lens, thus allowing more light into the scope. Now the Comp series may be clearer than the BR series.

 

[harleyreb1]

I run the Nightforcce 8x32 with a Warne 20moa base and leupold quick release rings works great at 600

 

[Milo 2.0]

Dave,
It must be nice having that scope unemployed, and I would use it for the time being, until you find a more suitable home for it.
Most of the responses were concerning competitions, yes there's better for that, for hunting it would rule!
So for stretching the 6mm Br past 600 yards with 105 class bullets, I'd stop there, punching holes in paper or banging steel past that distance is one thing, shooting a game animal is another. Hitting a 8x12' vital area on a game animal at 600 yards, without the courtesy of wind flags stretching to the target is something a person should take seriously.

 

[jamesgang]

I run the new NF Comp 15-55 and all the other shooters that have put an eye to it say it's one of the best made and brightest they've seen. Most of these guys are running the older NF Benchrest versions.
I went with the DDR reticle for long range F-Class.

Sorry, but the 15-55x 52mm Comp models are NOT as bright as the BR series. The BR series have a 56mm objecive lens, thus allowing more light into the scope. Now the Comp series may be clearer than the BR series.

Sorry this is my first and I'm basing it on similar sized objectives and from what those shooters attending the Nationals and Worlds in Raton have told me after looking downrange with it.

 

[30378]

I use a Nightforce 12-42x56 BR model on mine. If just bench and varmint shooting I would also look at the Leupold Competition 45x.

 

[roadkill61]

How old (big) are these people that are going to be shooting speed goats. Seames to me that any large nightforce is going to be unweildly for carrying and shooting. Now if you are going to shoot (from the truck) and have bipods or bench then a large size could be accomadated. But otherwise I would think something like the new nightforce 3.5-10x44 would be just the ticket.

 

[fdshuster]

Just my opinion, based on some experience, but a fixed power scope of anything much over 24x is way too much magnification, with a field of view that will be very limited. At 45x the field of view will be extremely limited, and so much time will be wasted in trying to find that very small target that it will probably be gone before you find it in the scope.

The Leupold 8.5-25x LR 30mm is probably close to being ideal for varmint hunting. The Competition Series, 35x,40x & 45x are intended for benchrest competition. I know because I have one 8.5-25x, one 35x Comp. & two 40x's. The one I'd choose would be the 8.5-25x for varmints. JMO

 

[kerjo]

Recently returned from a prairie dog hunt in SD with my 6BR and a NF NXS 8.5-32X56 with the new MOAR reticle using Berger 105gr VLD hunting bullets. Shot mostly from 500-1000 yds with it. Left the scope power at 22 because that is where the MOAR reticle needs to be to fully utilize it. I thought I may have a problem with the thickness of the reticle shooting dogs at those ranges. It wasn't a problem. The ZS was very useful because there were times when the turret read 5 and it could have been 25. So turning it back down to zero and back up to where I needed to be was no problem.

 

[dave300]

Kerjo and all, thank you for your input. I'm on my way to pick her up this week. I went with a near new 5.5-22x50 NPR1 that I just couldn't pass up the deal on.
As I expected, a lot of good points as to what one would/should use. Heck if I find the above mentioned scope is too much, it just means I have to build something else to put the scope own, not such a bad deal.
Thank you all again very much. Dave

Recently returned from a prairie dog hunt in SD with my 6BR and a NF NXS 8.5-32X56 with the new MOAR reticle using Berger 105gr VLD hunting bullets. Shot mostly from 500-1000 yds with it. Left the scope power at 22 because that is where the MOAR reticle needs to be to fully utilize it. I thought I may have a problem with the thickness of the reticle shooting dogs at those ranges. It wasn't a problem. The ZS was very useful because there were times when the turret read 5 and it could have been 25. So turning it back down to zero and back up to where I needed to be was no problem.

 

[jerry1]

I have used the Nightforce 3.5-15x for a year or so. It is by far the best scope for general use I have owned. It has tons of clicks, is rugged, and repeatable. For your purposes it would be great. I have used some of the high end scopes from others but so far nothing has matched it through my eyes.
Jerry1