“Shoveling sand against an incoming tide” reminds me of being assigned to moat dredging duty by my nieces, building sandcastles on a tropical beach . Great sport, but of course futile.
Great mental image on this January evening surrounded by so much snow here in Canada’s North
My punctuation peeve = .25-‘06 or .30-‘06 ‘06 is obviously a contraction of 1906,
Also , as a corrolary, why isn’t .270 Win known as .270-‘03, and similarly .280 Rem as .28-‘03 ??
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that's getting deep right there.
Yup, Piled Higher and Deeper. ;-)
Rem 700 KS, 6.5-280 AI w/ 2-10 x 50 FFP Illum. What could be simpler ?
Confusion comes from parsing out the Zoom range ( 2x - 10x = 5x )
Cheers
Um, no - it's -8x
No, 338rules is right. 10 divided by 2 is 5, not 8. The base magnification is 2x and the zoom factor is 5X, which takes the base magnification of 2X to the max of 10X. An 8X zoom would take a 2X to 16X.
Corectomundo ! Easily confused though .
The hyphen in the Zoom ratio denotes a range of magnifications :
HiX / LoX = ZoomRatio
Interestingly,
Exit pupil diameter = Objective Lens Diameter / Selected Magnification
So from our example scope 2 - 10 X 50 , the Objective lens diameter is 50 mm, And
at 2X Exit Pupil. = 50 / 2 = 25 mm. ;
at 10 X Exit Pupil = 50 / 10 = 5 mm
Clear as Mud
