Then my range neighbor (different outing, same range) who was watching and calling my hits invited me to sit behind his 6.5 Creedmore competition gun…………
I may have spent $2k on that Vortex,…. But holy $#!+ the glass on his rifle made that Razor III seem like open sights!!!
I killed the head on my second shot after a gust of wind blew the round off on number one. (he saw the shockwave take a hard right at about 500 yards through his spotting scope, only missed by maybe 1/2” apparently)
The point is, spend the money to make the rifle do what you want to do with it!
Heck I only spent a few hundred on the Vortex pair on my AR and the magnifier tilts out of the way if you don’t wanna use it but my son says you’re optics should cost as much as your rifle. But if I wanna do real long shots I had to order my L H Remington VSF ( varmint Synthetic Fluted) in .308 w/a 28” fluted barrel and a nice Bushnell scope that still was just $ 500 back then a 28 power job that is about 16” long and works great and I’ve had that rifle for prolly 25 years and I can hit targets like a paper plate w/a majik marker center colored in about 2” can hit ‘em prolly at 500 yards or so .
On my Savage .224 Valkyrie AR. Reached out to 1100 yards.
My Ruger 5.56 has the Vortex Sparc and 3x magnifier is my 300 yard rifle
I don’t think you need to spend a ton on the optics, more on the right grain round to get the desired result
Most gun stuff along with everything else is overpriced and somewhere in the middle is the good stuff that is priced right I have found, it took me awhile to realize that but it is very true. And IMHO Savage is the most accurate out of the box rifle out there.
