Nightforce BR 12-42x56 for F/class?

[Fast14riot]

I ran a Nightforce BR for a couple season in F/TR few observations

Scope has 40 moa elevation, this can cause issues at both ends of the travel. If you put a 20moa rail you have bottomed out the elevation turret depending on your ASL location it may prevent you from getting a 100 yard zero.

Windage 6moa. The limited windage causes issues remembering / calculating the amount of windage on the scope. If you have greater than 6min of wind you are one full revolution. A big wind change or a couple hrs in the butts and remembering becomes an shooting component allot of shooters don't want to deal with and they search for a different scope.

Objective focus on the bell, works great and the 56mm focus bell has greater fine tuning then the side parallex turret. However, shorter shooters do not like the focus out on the end of the scope, they have to break position to adjust when shooting prone. i am tall with a 36inch sleeve i had no issues adj the scope in position

P.S. I still own the scope but i bot a March 8x80. For F/TR shooting 308win the 6moa windage was a hindrance. The March has 10moa.

Trevor

All good info. I wasn't aware it was only 6moa on the windage. Even with 10moa on my sightrons, I was a full turn out starting my last match, which put me on my neighbors target, lol! Previous match had some gnarly wind and I forgot to set it back to zero.

Personally, I would be fine if the graduations on the dial weren't marked except for zero, I tend to dial like one does with match sights. Just crank it to where it needs to be.

 

[memilanuk]

After getting burned a time or two, you learn to do two things:

1. Draw a sketch of what the windage knob looks like on zero (how many lines showing, etc.) and keep that in your range bag. Or, in this modern day and age, snap a pic with your phone.
2. Make a habit of putting the scope back to zero before casing it at the end of every string.

After that... problem solved. If you forget and can't figure out what rev the knob should be on, it's not the scope that is at fault.

And yes, that's a 'best practice' worth using even if you have 10 or more moa per rev.