Nightforce reticles
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Ned Kelly
- .270 Winchester
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- Location: Macedon Ranges Vic
G'Day Trev,
I used my NR 8-32 BR model yesterday in crappy winds at Werribee ISC.
The double dot is a good selection me thinks!
Also when you shoot BR you need only have a 1/8moa dot and you will hold off , no knob turning ok? If you choose any other shooting sport try to use the same aiming off technique.
This keeps it simple and allows you to concentrate on shooting the match. Some F class shooters like to wind on windage to correct from shot to shot. I'd rather hold off and then I dont forget how much has been wound on or off the dial. Each shot for score becomes effectively a sighter. you then try to chase it with the next shot. Thats how many BR shooters shoot a group, by adjusting their aim to suit based on where the last shot into the group landed.
Hope this helps
Cheerio Ned
I used my NR 8-32 BR model yesterday in crappy winds at Werribee ISC.
The double dot is a good selection me thinks!
Also when you shoot BR you need only have a 1/8moa dot and you will hold off , no knob turning ok? If you choose any other shooting sport try to use the same aiming off technique.
This keeps it simple and allows you to concentrate on shooting the match. Some F class shooters like to wind on windage to correct from shot to shot. I'd rather hold off and then I dont forget how much has been wound on or off the dial. Each shot for score becomes effectively a sighter. you then try to chase it with the next shot. Thats how many BR shooters shoot a group, by adjusting their aim to suit based on where the last shot into the group landed.
Hope this helps
Cheerio Ned
Most of you already probably know that i have screwed around with many types of reticules in Lymans Weavers and of course Leupolds using various things like Dacron, Kevlar and more recently glass fibre from telecommunications cables which all work well and are far more contrasting than a wire reticule will ever be. The Nightforce is of course a laser etched reticule and does not suffer the problems some other scopes do with broken wires. The reason i would advise for a double D in a Nightforce as opposed to some others is that in a gun that tracks well and has a butt angle of 3.5 degrees or less, it is possible to follow the bullet trail all the way through the target. I don't need to explain how much of an advantage this is for Fly shooting in a heavy mirage where shots will never be seen on the paper. A vertical wire or mil dots obscure this trail and cause your eye to re-focus on the moving reticule during recoil making it impossible to see that trail in time. My personal choice of reticule would be the lower dot on the double D and all the rest of the crap completely removed giving you an unobstructed view of the bullet flight through its culmination point. We are not hunting here so all the other lines are of little use to us as all they do is obscure mirage boil which is very useful when seen clearly.
Tony Z.
Tony Z.