Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Long range hunting scope, around $3500 or less?

I can't see how suggesting all of these PRS favorite scopes is helpful. This thread is mainly asking for a hunting scope. I can't imagine using a Vortex EBR-2C (the most poplar reticle from the last article) for a big game hunting rifle. The parameters were up to 650 yards hunting and 800 yards target. 18 mils between the (not quite heavy enough) horizontal posts is way too much if the lights go out. The reticles available would rule out many of these scopes for me. The S&B P3 reticle is probably the best available from the scopes mentioned so far. I'd rather see hashes than dots, though. I think the Bushnell G2H would be similarly useful, but still a little wide.

I find that my S&B PMll scopes are my favorites for my hunting. YMMV

You are correct that these links are about competition and does not address low light hunting situations, but the6 do show reliability.

I realize that and I’ve rea$ all of them. S&B are very expensive and thr6 do not sponsor to my knowledge. I’ve used a lot of different scope and S&B has been the best for me especially in low light hunting situations. I own 6 of them at present. I very reluctant to spend the coin on them at first bu5 once I did nothing else measured up.

Schmidt and Bender scopes were still topping more rifles than any other this year. This probably comes as no shock. Although the design is now a decade old, the Schmidt and Bender PMII 5-25×56 continues to be the king in the long-range scope world. This was proven once more in a 400+ hour data-driven scope field test I conducted recently focused on the best 18 scopes money can buy. Apparently, it took me 400 hours to figure out what most of these guys already knew! Although you may have to sell a kidney on the black market to be able to afford one … it might be worth it. The scope is near flawless. Don’t you really only need one kidney anyway?


http://precisionrifleblog.com/2014/10/24/best-tactical-scopes-what-the-pros-use/

so is this a scope you have actually seen? remember last time you told me how great a certain scope was over another when you had not seen either of them. Do you just recite [bleep] you hear others say? your opinions seem emphatic even though in the last case you don't know shat from shinola about what your talking about because you had not seen either scope. just keeping it real.

Not jwp, but the mil-dot reticles are what I like for hunting.

S&B sponsored a lot of shooters.... in 2014. Vortex sponsers a lot of shooters now. Actually the only company in the top 5 that doesn’t sponsor multiple shooters is Nightforce.


The PRS “stats” on face value should be taken with a grain of salt. Unless you know the politics and inner workings you’re not seeing the what you think you are. For instance- if my life depended on it I would choose a Bushnell HDMR over most current production S&B’s as they have fewer problems. One can like that or not- it’s simple reality when 20 of each are laid side by side and actually measured, tested, and used hard. But one could look at the “rankings” and see that only a couple shooters used Bushnell..... Of course that’s because Bushnell has drastically cut it’s shooting team


Features and glass are what sell in PRS- not absolute reliability.

For carrying and simplicity PM II. Single turn turret, mil dot reticle, fixed power, at 21oz


But a SWFA in fixed 6 or 10 would work well too, for less.

How many mils in elevation do you get in a single turn?

A single turn PMII will give you 13 mils on the turret.

It takes less than 7 mils to get to 1000 with my 6.5 SAUM...

S&B sponsored a lot of shooters.... in 2014. Vortex sponsers a lot of shooters now. Actually the only company in the top 5 that doesn’t sponsor multiple shooters is Nightforce.


The PRS “stats” on face value should be taken with a grain of salt. Unless you know the politics and inner workings you’re not seeing the what you think you are. For instance- if my life depended on it I would choose a Bushnell HDMR over most current production S&B’s as they have fewer problems. One can like that or not- it’s simple reality when 20 of each are laid side by side and actually measured, tested, and used hard. But one could look at the “rankings” and see that only a couple shooters used Bushnell..... Of course that’s because Bushnell has drastically cut it’s shooting team


Features and glass are what sell in PRS- not absolute reliability.

Also, "well past" might be a little generous. I'm at 7.9 mils at 1000 with my 300 and a 200 yard zero. I would have to bottom out the scope and use Signature rings to zero it at 100 yards just to get to 900 yds with a 7 mil scope. Doable? Yes, but it is not an exercise in scope mounting that I care to participate in.

13.2 actually....;)

S&B sponsored a lot of shooters.... in 2014. Vortex sponsers a lot of shooters now. Actually the only company in the top 5 that doesn’t sponsor multiple shooters is Nightforce.


The PRS “stats” on face value should be taken with a grain of salt. Unless you know the politics and inner workings you’re not seeing the what you think you are. For instance- if my life depended on it I would choose a Bushnell HDMR over most current production S&B’s as they have fewer problems. One can like that or not- it’s simple reality when 20 of each are laid side by side and actually measured, tested, and used hard. But one could look at the “rankings” and see that only a couple shooters used Bushnell..... Of course that’s because Bushnell has drastically cut it’s shooting team


Features and glass are what sell in PRS- not absolute reliability.

13.2 actually....;)