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Who of you dial turrets on your Alaskan big game hunts and who uses reticle hold over, like on "set & forget scopes"? No good or bad here, just curious.
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I use turrets. SWFA fixed 6 and 10 power, and 3-9.
Previously used the Leupold 3.5-10 and 6X42 with M1s quite a bit.
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I don't own any turret scopes. Don't need them, and keep my shooting to no more than 500 yards.
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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I don't own any turret scopes. Don't need them, and keep my shooting to no more than 500 yards. Same here only 450 yards and a good fixed power scope.
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Iron sites here, 100 yards and under. I like to get to know the animals I shoot first. My main goto firearms for Alaska are a Ruger #1 375 H&H Mag for Moose and Bears, the AR covers everything else.
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I have one rifle equipped with a Leupold CDS but have not used it in about five years, so that's how excited I tend to get for dialing. I like to get closer generally and can't think of a time I failed to get an animal due to this philosophy. I'm also not hunting sheep or caribou where I live so it's easy for me to think that way. Three out of four of my most used rifles have Talley QDs with back up peep sights. I end up using the peeps for about half the stuff I kill.
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I've never hunted hay.....
And these zombies line up and eat from the media’s trough
Cowards CANNOT be free. Nor should they be.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Who of you dial turrets on your Alaskan big game hunts and who uses reticle hold over, like on "set & forget scopes"? No good or bad here, just curious. Yes.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Both.
Nightforce nxs 2.5-10 SWFA 3-9 (I think I have 3 of these) Nightforce 4-14f1
Leupold vx3i (a few different ones, 1.5-5, 3.5-8 etc) Meopta meopro 3-9 Nightforce shv 3-10
I’m probably missing a few but like I said, I use both.
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I'm with the "set and forget" crowd. If I need to be concerned with dialing in range adjustments, I'm not really "hunting".
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Campfire Kahuna
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I'm with the "set and forget" crowd. If I need to be concerned with dialing in range adjustments, I'm not really "hunting". What is hunting ? Sounds like you have a "real" definition.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I'm with the "set and forget" crowd. If I need to be concerned with dialing in range adjustments, I'm not really "hunting". What is hunting ? Sounds like you have a "real" definition. Jeff it sounds to me like he has the “definition “ for him not everybody. But I could be wrong. Word of caution dialing dope is fun & addictive
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I'm with the "set and forget" crowd. If I need to be concerned with dialing in range adjustments, I'm not really "hunting". Where and what do you hunt?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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Yup.
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Thus far turrets on a sample of one (1) critter.
I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill
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I don't own any turret scopes. Don't need them, and keep my shooting to no more than 500 yards. This
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I don't own any turret scopes. Don't need them, and keep my shooting to no more than 500 yards. This Same here.
That's ok, I'll ass shoot a dink.
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Never dialed a scope, never will. I like to hunt.
When truth is ignored, it does not change an untruth from remaining a lie.
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I’m always prepared to dial when needed.
B.C. don't matter.............Laffin!
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