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Posted: 4/5/2013 9:21:43 AM EDT
| I am building a 6.5 creedmore and am looking at the 6-24x50 vortex pst. I am new to long range shooting and have never shot a ffp scope and am not familiar with using mil dots. I will mostly be shooting steel, squirrels and coyotes at a distance. I am used to dialing range in Moa with my Grendel. The whole mil/mil thing is new to me. I was looking at the pst with the MOA reticle 2nd focal plane. But then I started to look at the 6-24x50 FFP in mil/mil and it is only 200 bucks more. I just can't decide if I am going to need/want this down the road for this rifle. If I am I would rather spend the 200 dollars now and get the right scope the first time. My shots will not really be rushed and I'm not going to be shooting in any competitions. |
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First off, you might want to repost this is the Precision Rifle forum in the Armory section.
Second, another new long range shooter here. While I cannot help you a whole lot on using the mil-dot system (still learning myself), I can tell yout that the FFP scopes seem to be popular. With a FFP scope, the reticle adjusts (or changes size) as the magnification changes, which enables the shooter to use the reticle to range at any magnification. With a SFP reticle, you can only use the reticle to range at one particular magnification setting (typically the highest power). There's an article stickied in the PR forum that explains this much better than I can. I just bought a PST 4-16x50 FFP with the MOA reticle from Brownells. (They had them in stock finally!) |
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They do make it MOA/MOA as well. I prefer MOA/MOA. The mil/mil system is just as easy to learn. If you were born with shooting .25 clicks, stick with the MOA/MOA. If your new to LRS pick one and roll. I have a NF NXS on my .308 bolt action which pretty much stays on 22x. It can also be used at 11x and 5.5x if you can multiply. Ranging with SFP is just a little slower. FFP Is a really nice feature to have but it ads to the price of the optic. Other then price, the only down side to me, is how small the reticle is at it's lowest setting. Not a big deal. The PST your looking at is a good scope in MOA/MOA, mil/mil, SFP, FFP, etc..I own several of them all in FFP and MOA/MOA. ETA: this may help http://shooterready.com/ |
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