Best Scope for Benchrest 1000 yrd HG

[tlr300wsm]

Building a new 300wsm heavy gun for 1,000 yard bench rest. I would like to have a scope that allows visual of bullet holes at 1,000 yrds. Currently using March 10x60x56 HM on my light gun but it doesn't quite show the holes. (I know it relevant only when there is no mirage)

 

[BenPerfected]

Building a new 300wsm heavy gun for 1,000 yard bench rest. I would like to have a scope that allows visual of bullet holes at 1,000 yrds. Currently using March 10x60x56 HM on my light gun but it doesn't quite show the holes. (I know it relevant only when there is no mirage)

Have you tried the March 8x80?

 

[tlr300wsm]

Have you tried the March 8x80?

No I have not. That is the information I was looking for. Have you tried one and will it reach out to 1K?

 

[BenPerfected]

No I have not. That is the information I was looking for. Have you tried one and will it reach out to 1K?

I have not shot an 8-80 at 1000 yds but it is a nice scope. Maybe try contacting March?

 

[R.Morehouse]

Conditions are going to have to be perfect to see holes at 1K. I have seen them a few times with the 8-80 but they were like little tic marks. Even with the best high-end spotters it is a crapshoot. If this is for practice I would suggest a target camera.

Regards
Rick

 

[tmwinds]

I couldn't see a bullet hole at 1000 yards if I were looking through the Hubble Telescope.

 

[Paul Beel]

Makes 2 of us

 

[JFrank]

Ya need a set of them fancy TAC glasses that them fellas sell on tv $19.99

 

[carlsbad]

You'll never get there with air conditions except maybe at dawn 2 or e days a year.

Even in perfect conditions, there is Dawes limit that is the theoretical limit for resolution by perfect optics in perfect conditions. It is expressed as:

R = 4.56/D D in inches, R in seconds of arc

So a .308 hole 1000 yards away about 1.8 arc seconds. Plug that in and you see the theoretical limit for resolution in perfect conditions needs a 2.5" diameter objective--larger than 60mm.

--Jerry