Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles load testing using a high power scope

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Once again, Mr Pitiful makes a post that certainly reveals his ignorance. Why do the Bench shooters use the high powered glass? Why do the Silhouette shooters use such high powered glass for the distance shot?? Of course you have to know how to use the upgraded equipment otherwise it's just a matter of ego or trying to buy your way into the winner's circle.

Once again, Mr Pitiful makes a post that certainly reveals his ignorance. Why do the Bench shooters use the high powered glass? Why do the Silhouette shooters use such high powered glass for the distance shot?? Of course you have to know how to use the upgraded equipment otherwise it's just a matter of ego or trying to buy your way into the winner's circle. Kinda like putting a rediculously overprice Mcswirly stock on a $200 gun and calling it a custom rifle. Maybe adding a skull and cross bones to show your adultness.

I fail to see how increased magnification can control reticle movement or improve one's hold thereby improving group size.

Whatever is going on with a 6X is certainly going on with a 24X. Holding hard gives the same results with either.

Does this apply to 1x as well?

If one can can shoot a 0.5" group at 100 with 24X they can shoot that with 6X or 1X with equal ease?

Simply put, yes.

Magnification of a day scope has nothing to do with the fundamentals of steady hold, proper breathing, alignment or follow through. That's what gives results. It's individual as to what one's eye prefers as an aiming point.
Irons, crosshairs, post and wire, dot, circle, triangle...

Heck, I'd go so far as to say the 24X most likely would be a detractor to good groups at 100y, even when one really knows how to hold hard. Seen more than one shooter with high magnification on a rifle who could not relax to provide a clean, consistant break of the trigger whenever the reticle was moving. Higher magnification will amplify movement exponentially.

I can for sure state high magnification is a handicap when the conditions are poor. Especially at distances past the usual 100y or 100m load testing distance.

I am confused, I can't see 0.5 at a 100 without magnification, How am I going to be able to shoot it?

Several years ago, in tests performed by the Army Marksmanship Training Unit at Ft. Benning GA, it was determined that a person could make an aiming error with up to an 8 power scope and not be able to tell it.

This people doing the testing were Olympiac Gold Medal shooters and other championship shooters.

After reading that, I always made it a point to try to use at least an 8 power scope or above, if one was available.

You can get close with lower power, and also iron sights, but sometimes, close is not good enough, unless you are throwing hand granades.