Loading to match BDC scope

[LeoHuhta]

Go the Leupold CDS route, within the family there are 7 of them and all of them are very good.
On my 22-250 from 100 to 400 yrds it’s within an
An inch of vertical at any of the distances.

I also have a Nikon 223 scope and it’s also pretty darn good.
But Nikon no longer makes rifle scopes.

 

[mauser284]

BDC scope reticles are not designed for true precision work. They are designed with the idea that a hit is a hit is a hit. So with that in mind think miltary DMR or lower. You have to think about Western Docterine where injury is worse than death because of the manpower drain it puts on the enemy. This is only relavant though if you are talking about Western milatry powers. In forces that put very little importance onthe injured and life a hit and injury is not very relavant. Look at how long the Russians make their conscripts suffer, wait and die in fight aginst Ukraine compared to how the USA would treat their wounded!

Is just hitting the dear at 600m relavant or do you need to kill it routinely on the first shot? Do you need to plink a pop can quickly or do you need to shoot a 1/4 MOA group from 100m to 600m? Dialing an optic or using MIL or MOA reticle can be important to some but not to all!

The purpose of reloading is nornaly to extract the maximum accuracy, external ballistics or cut costs say pre 2007. Few rifles shoot their best with the load that would most closely match pre-made BDC.

 

[Knotwild]

I think there are too many variables for what you are trying to accomplish. 1. The reliability and repeatability of a bargain scope. 2. Can you find a load that's reasonably accurate (lets say 2 moa) that is consistent in vertical dispersion? 3. What affect will conditions have as they change? Living in the south I know conditions swing pretty wide. 4. Will your dial stay accurate for the ranges you shoot and adapt for bc changes as velocity drops? 5. How much will a head wind or tail wind affect your load?

The closest I ever came (totally by accident) to having a reticle work was with a Leupold Boone and Crockett 2.5x8 - no dialing, no ballistic turrets, and a 223 with Benchmark and 55gr Nosler Varmageddons. Sighted in at 200 it made hits on a 10" plate possible to 400. But at 400 it was starting to fall more than my reticle subtension. And I was at my limit at 400.

 

[10XSHOOTER]

I think they are now long gone but maybe someone else is doing it now...There was a company a few years ago named Premier Reticle that would place dots on the lower vertical post based on YOUR load and bullet. Had one on a 22-250 varmint rifle and will say that a field mouse at 400 yards was in grave danger with that setup. You're just going about the same thing from the other direction, for the most part but I'd give the edge to Premier due to actual velocities and bullet bc being accounted for with it and not being locked into already placed "dots" on the reticle.

Don't think Premier is in business anymore. Old man passed away and Son didn't as good of work as the Father did.