Considering a NF scope. What reticle do you like, prefer for varmint, deer hunting?
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Nightforce scopes
- Thread starter Bristleback
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NP-R2 is pretty awesome. as long as you know the relative size of your target, and enough time for a little math, you can figure distances easy.
I used to have the MLR reticle but I sold that scope and got the same scope but with as NPR1 reticle. Whatever you decide be sure your reticle and knobs match up. I mean get a MOA reticle and MOA knobs or mil and mil. I would get MOA and MOA. It makes it much easier here in the US. As far as the actual reticle goes it really depends on what you want to do with your scope. I like to use my scope to assist in ranging. Let’s face it a laser range finder will have problems ranging on very flat ground when you are very close to it.
The more hash marks on the scope enable me to help determine the size of game. It is too easy to get buck fever and think a smaller buck or doe is a monster. Same goes for Coyotes. Even with a range card you can get too excited and think it is much closer or farther than it really is. If the animal does not matchup with the size of the hash marks I know something is wrong. This is something that is learned from actually using your scope. I can easily recheck my range card or laser range it.
Many target shooters want just a dot or something that points to a dot. It is much easier to see the exact aiming point you want if you are not looking threw a big reticle. A small target dot is just what is needed. But when it is starting to get dark and hunting those small aiming points tend to get hard to see. Where I hunt deer tend to only start moving once it starts to get dark and stop usually before sun up. So having a little heavier reticle makes it easier to make those late night or very early morning shots. Deer do move and get chased during the day but here they tend to stay put during the day unless they are in a spot that “Hunters” usually do not go.
The more I shoot and read I have found out that most tend not to use the more advanced reticles for what they are designed for. I would think that is why you see so many mil reticles and MOA knobs( I even had a scope setup like that). Sure it is just one more step of math but why do it when you can setup your scope MOA and MOA? I had a chance to use a first focal plane scope and once NF brings out the 5.5 to 22 F1 scopes I will be getting one with the NPR1 reticle. They are very handy if you want to use your scope for ranging and error correction. The reticle is always calibrated for the power setting you are on. One MOA is one MOA always not just at 22X like on the NXS like I have currently.
The more hash marks on the scope enable me to help determine the size of game. It is too easy to get buck fever and think a smaller buck or doe is a monster. Same goes for Coyotes. Even with a range card you can get too excited and think it is much closer or farther than it really is. If the animal does not matchup with the size of the hash marks I know something is wrong. This is something that is learned from actually using your scope. I can easily recheck my range card or laser range it.
Many target shooters want just a dot or something that points to a dot. It is much easier to see the exact aiming point you want if you are not looking threw a big reticle. A small target dot is just what is needed. But when it is starting to get dark and hunting those small aiming points tend to get hard to see. Where I hunt deer tend to only start moving once it starts to get dark and stop usually before sun up. So having a little heavier reticle makes it easier to make those late night or very early morning shots. Deer do move and get chased during the day but here they tend to stay put during the day unless they are in a spot that “Hunters” usually do not go.
The more I shoot and read I have found out that most tend not to use the more advanced reticles for what they are designed for. I would think that is why you see so many mil reticles and MOA knobs( I even had a scope setup like that). Sure it is just one more step of math but why do it when you can setup your scope MOA and MOA? I had a chance to use a first focal plane scope and once NF brings out the 5.5 to 22 F1 scopes I will be getting one with the NPR1 reticle. They are very handy if you want to use your scope for ranging and error correction. The reticle is always calibrated for the power setting you are on. One MOA is one MOA always not just at 22X like on the NXS like I have currently.
Many thanks, appreciate the input.
people said:
MilDot reticles(MLR included) and .1MRAD knobs are not metric, I repeat NOT metric, 1 mil is 1/1000 of any unit of measurement you would like to give it, 1 inch at 1000 inches, 1 mile at 1000 miles, and .1MRAD knobs are there for 1/10000 of any unit of measurement, many think that beacause of those facts Mils are metric, 1 meter at 1000 meters which anybody, anybody...................... means at 100 meters .1MRAD is 1cm, my suggestion is not to assign a value to Mils, a Mil is a Mil is a Mil, the reticle is a calibrated ruler, and 10 clicks of the knob equal 1 Mil, its really a simple and easy system once you understand it.
k80skeet
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I really like having the (2) size dots I don't ever buy any scope without a dot I Have a set of Lieca Geovids to do my range finding. I have shot quite a few different Nightforce reticles and for me it would be the Np-2DD I guess I just don't like all the the extra stuff to look at and don't want to spend the time on learning how to use it properly.
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