Maven, Leupold, Trijicon, NF

[F250]

Anyway, I prefer the 3 Trijicons I own over the Leupolds I have.

 

[JLS]

I was down to NF and Maven. I went with Maven because I felt it was a better reticle. The more I use the RS1.2 the more I believe I made the absolute right choice.

Do you want FFP or SFP? The Leupy VX5 is SFP. If you are long range shooting and want to hold for wind I would think you’d want a FFP scope.

I pretty much keep all my scopes on 6ish power when I hunt. Even still hunting whitetail in the timber. At 6x the FFP is very useable and the Maven has illumination if you wish to use it. I did this year right at first light and found it helpful.

I wanted to like the Trijicon tree but it’s way too busy.

Objective diameter is important as it relates to exit pupil. Your eye cannot utilize more than 7mm of exit pupil (this gets less as you age) so in reality an exit pupil of more than 5-6 is wasted. At 10x a 44mm objective lense gives you an exit pupil of 4.4.

 

[oxn939]

Yikes... 300 to 500 range, 700 yards the longest. I'm starting to think I really suck. My limit is 325, and I shoot every week.

Yeah it's kinda crazy. I was a precision shooting instructor for years and have fired many thousands of rounds over 500 yards, and I still am not good enough to shoot that far at an animal.

Almost like the influencers have convinced people they need to shoot half a mile (and blow the associated fortune to buy all the LR gear from their sponsors™) to fill tags.

 

[jeff_gibbons]

I’ve come to see that in many cases, the more and better people shoot, the more they understand the limitations..

Whole lotta people talking about 500-1000 yards these days that have at most done it on a square range where they can walk rounds in from prone or a bench and then they just remember that they ended up hitting the target a bunch of times in the end rather than where the first shot landed.

Spot on