Sightron s3 6-24 or 8-32 in mil dot

[ripley]

have narrow a scope down to these two. I want to have the option to shoot at 1000 yard f-class targets..am I going to be able to CLEARLY see the 10 and X ring at 1000 yards with these scopes??does the 24 power offer enough magnification??At 24 power with the 6-24, the stadia lines that intersect the dots are 0.1inch at 100 yards (1" at 1000) and the 8-32 on high power are 0.07" at 100 yards and then (0.7" at 1000 yards). Both look like great scopes. Does anyone have suggestion or used either at 1000 yards...Thanks for advice

 

[Keith Glasscock]

I have a 6-24 MD scope on a "hunting" rifle (a heavy sporter that has never seen anything but paper targets). On the F-class target, the X ring is mostly blotted out by the reticle - I sincerely doubt that mine only covers 0.1 moa. That doesn't mean I can't tell that I'm in the X ring, just that I can't tell you exactly where I am. A reticle that thick also makes holding off difficult for me. When compared to my Leupold 6.5-20 with a TMR reticle, I'd take the lower power and thinner lines/open center any day. BTW, everything on the Sightron (except the elevation and windage adjustments) turns backward compared to the Leupold - talk about operator overload!

If you are willing to have a special scope for target shooting, there are several out there that offer a really fine crosshair and/or dot arrangement that works spectacularly.

Hope it helps

 

[savageboy]

I personally found that when I switched from a Bushnell 4200 6-24x Mil dot to a Nightforce 8-32x NP2DD (now moved up to a 12-42x NP2DD) both at around 24x that I could aim alot better, hold off to the exact place I felt I needed to be (600 and 1000 yd F class) my scores went up quite a bit. The Mil Dot was for me just too heavy of a reticle and covered too much of the target for me personally and I needed all the help I could get. That and a good rear bag made all the difference in my scores, precise aiming points based on changing condiitons, etc. The small target dot (fine cross hairs or not) really made a difference

 

[model 12 toby]

first time I shot at 770 yards with a 16 power bushnell elite 6500 i shot a better group than with leupold 45 power competition after shooting it half a dozen tim. why? beats me. ;D

 

[Jazz]

I have the Sightron 8x32x56 with target dot reticle. It's a really nice scope, tracks superb.

 

[FroggyOne2]

Sightron target dot scopes are great, but the mil-dot scopes is a different animal. The dots are rather large.

 

[crewchef]

Sounds like you're set on the mil-dot reticle? If planned use is known range target shooting you might want to reconsider the Target Dot or Long Range Target Dot. As to magnification, I went with SIII 8-32 TD. My logic, more likely that I will want to use 25-32 than 6-7 settings. I wasn't giving up hardly anything on lower end to get the additional maginfication. Objective is a little larger but that wasn't a big deal for me.

If you're going to use it for hunting too then lower magnification might be needed but for target shooting I would go with 8-32.

 

[Laurie]

Sounds like you're set on the mil-dot reticle? If planned use is known range target shooting you might want to reconsider the Target Dot or Long Range Target Dot. As to magnification, I went with SIII 8-32 TD. My logic, more likely that I will want to use 25-32 than 6-7 settings. I wasn't giving up hardly anything on lower end to get the additional maginfication. Objective is a little larger but that wasn't a big deal for me. [Crewchief]

Good advice there, Ripley. I'd use the LRTD anytime over the MilDot on F Class assuming the correct target is being used with a half-MOA white centre.

If you want help with aim-off, have a look at the Sightron Series III 8-32X56 with the new LRMOA reticle. It has a very nice fine hash-mark overlay on the basic FCH + Dot form. At 32 power, the hash marks are exactly 2-MOA apart. That's more useful than a Mil-Dot form at 3.438-MOA or fractions thereof.

 

[ripley]

I was not so much looking at the mil-dot for aiming but the center cross hairs are very fine at greater magnification. Duel use...range finding and a fine crosshair for precision long range shooting...any comments

 

[Nomad47]

I have a SIII 8-32x56 mil dot I would consider selling. For the shooting I would be doing with the Sightron, I think a straight 36x might be better suited.