School me on this retical please!,,, I'm looking for a hunting scope for 7mm mag. Shot it in at 200 yards change power ring till all other ranges are on...?
Rifle Scopes Zeiss z800
- Thread starter Bubb
- Start date
Get on Zeiss ballistic calc and input info and it will tell you what power setting is the closest to hit the yardage in the reticle. Mine is spoton with my 6creed
+1 You'll need to know some basic info: bullet wt., speed, etc., but the website is pretty damn close. My son's 7RM w/ 160 Nosler AB was REALLY close at 12.2 power out to 600 yds. w/ Rapid Z 800. VERY quick to engage steel at 200,300,400,500 meters w/ first round hits at each distance on chickens, pigs, turkeys rams and 12x12 plate at 600yds.
I have TWO of these: 4.5x14x44 RZ800 waiting for new barrels. One is for a 30-06, the other for a 7mm/300WM wildcat that I took to Africa and let the air outta 13 animals. LOVE the scope for clarity, price/value, quick target acquisition, repeatability. I can't think of a better scope for hunting rifle than these. You're gonna like it, I'm sure. Good luck.
I have TWO of these: 4.5x14x44 RZ800 waiting for new barrels. One is for a 30-06, the other for a 7mm/300WM wildcat that I took to Africa and let the air outta 13 animals. LOVE the scope for clarity, price/value, quick target acquisition, repeatability. I can't think of a better scope for hunting rifle than these. You're gonna like it, I'm sure. Good luck.
It's a cool reticle and system IF you take the time to play with it AND you're diligent about shooting at the right magnification. Once you get on the ballistic calculator, you'll find that the default "sight in" yardage is 200 yds. Go thru the steps with that default, let the program give you the optimum magnification range to shoot at, and then jot down the point of impact distance calculated for each of the holdover lines. Once you've done that, you can then go back and change the sight-in distance (I do this in 5 yd increments) and get the calculated point of impact distances even closer to the stated holdover lines. The more accurate the info you feed the ballistic calculator, the more accurate the holdover lines work in the field.
Meopta offers the same thing (they call it the "McWhorter" reticle) on their MeoStar 4-16x44. I think that reticle layout is a little better (cross-hairs and hashes aren't quite as heavy as the Z800, so it should work better as a dual purpose hunting/target scope than the Zeiss) and the ballistic calculator works the same. One of my Zeiss scopes has a Rapid Z reticle (I love it) and I'm in the market for another, but I'm trying the Meopta this next time around for my 6.5 Creedmoor. Swarovski and Leica have similar offerings (BRH and IBS reticles, respectively) but they don't seem to match up ballistically as well as the Zeiss and Meopta...
Meopta offers the same thing (they call it the "McWhorter" reticle) on their MeoStar 4-16x44. I think that reticle layout is a little better (cross-hairs and hashes aren't quite as heavy as the Z800, so it should work better as a dual purpose hunting/target scope than the Zeiss) and the ballistic calculator works the same. One of my Zeiss scopes has a Rapid Z reticle (I love it) and I'm in the market for another, but I'm trying the Meopta this next time around for my 6.5 Creedmoor. Swarovski and Leica have similar offerings (BRH and IBS reticles, respectively) but they don't seem to match up ballistically as well as the Zeiss and Meopta...
