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Scope limits in BR shooting

mhblaw

Our local club is new to 50 yard bench rest shooting on the IBS green target. We have arbitrarily set a 6x scope limit. Some shooters want more power. We may try the IBS red target soon that really needs a higher power scope.
Question: how do handle this? I am not sure why we set a 6x limit in the first place. I see that folks are using scopes with anywhere from 4 to 50.
We don’t want our group to get involved in a $ race if we can.
Suggestions?
 
Leupold makes a variable that goes to 7X. I have one and it is excellent at 50 yds. I suppose it would be good backed down to 6X
At 100 yds it is not enough magnification to see bullet holes.
 
I used 7x forever at fifty unfortunately it will always be we need 50x to shoot fifty yards.... People will always want more or better and any tiny advantage they can get instead of spending that extra on ammo and actually getting better... I shot my first rimfire challenge today and was shocked by two things... The amount of high dollar rifles and scopes with a million power and the amount of people that shot so bad it didn't matter.... I missed first place by one point shooting an out of the box Ruger rifle and an out of the box iron sighted Glock for pistol.... Even in pistol there was people with more money in optic than I had in my pistol shooting $4.99 CCI ammo.... I did shoot good ammo in rifle though... No matter what you spend you still have to aim and pull the trigger...
 
mhblaw said:
Our local club is new to 50 yard bench rest shooting on the IBS green target. We have arbitrarily set a 6x scope limit. Some shooters want more power. We may try the IBS red target soon that really needs a higher power scope.
Question: how do handle this? I am not sure why we set a 6x limit in the first place. I see that folks are using scopes with anywhere from 4 to 50.
We don’t want our group to get involved in a $ race if we can.
Suggestions?
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Why not set the price on what is allowed for a scope. That fixed this very problem at our shoots.
 
I would think about just raising the power limit to around 25x, that way Even the cheaper scopes can still somewhat contend at 50. I use a Vortex Venom 5x25x56 and it was $399.00 at the time I purchased it a few years ago. That said, we have no power/$$$ limit set at our matches, and my relatively inexpensive Vortex has held it's own against the likes of $3000+ NF 60x scopes.
 
JME, too many unnecessary rules will ultimately take the fun out of it. Limiting the amount of $$ for a scope is one of them. Stress safety, good sportsmanship, and have fun shooting. It's no fun shooting if you can't see what you're shooting at. There are a lot of other factors that contribute to a great score than the scope magnification.

I agree with CJ6, does everyone have to bring a receipt for everything? JME WD
 
Some people have better eyes than others. At 50 yards if you can not read your sighters or your scoring shots to possibly change your POA or adjust your scope your screwed. If this shoot has a lot of older fellas they'll possibly decide not to shoot it because of a lame rule like this.
 
If you want to take a $ motivated chase out of your rimfire equation to keep the playing field guessing, charge a few more bucks and supply the ammo to be used at that shoot on that day. Barrels and ammo are what it's all about....Not scopes.
At our local 12g turkey shoots you must use their ammo to keep it "fair".......
I know what I said isn't by any stretch a realistic thing, but if I can send my RF away to be lot tested and buy all of that lot they have on hand.....The scope at 50 isn't going to be the deal breaker...

Regards
Rick
 
We have a weekly match here, not BR but similar - bottle cap. Is it a gear race? Yup, anything goes. I've went down that rabbit hole and spent considerable money, shoot fairly well if I get my head in the game, not necessarily on top all the time, who puts the better scores on the board? The ones that are dilligent and shoot often. A lot of gear consists of a $600 rifle, a $400 scope and tweaking the trigger with springs from the hardware store, but the big turnaround was when they started shooting ammo that excluded bulk... The best score posted to date? Comes from a 150 year old rifle, 80 year old scope, but the change happened when the shooter went to CX...
Let them shoot - it will sort itself out...
GT
 
CX is that junky Lapua Center-X... LOL
The shooter went from $20 for 325 rd bulk to $15.50 per 50 rd. Score on the bottle caps went from just breaking 1.0" to shooting a .420" and under .600" consistently, so the difference was measureable.
 
"What has happened to us here in the USA? Where is the desire to be the best you can be? Leveling the playing field consists of dragging others down to your level, not improving your own performance."

Put that way it sounds like socialism in shooting sports?

One of the retired guys that shoots with us is complaining now that the 22 game is affecting his life, what he used to spend on beer is now getting saved to buy better ammo, then gear. It's all about where the interests lie. Next I think he'll be selling one of his bikes to delve deeper yet...
 
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