First or second focal plane for rimfire bench shooting

[Calfed]

I'm looking at a 4.5-30 LRS Bushnell for small bore bench shooting at 100-200 yards. It is a SFP mildot reticle.

Anyone have any thoughts on advantages of the FFP over the SFP in benchrest shooting? I'm thinking theSFP might be better as the reticle becomes finer at the higher powers, making precise shots a bit easier.

 

[acudaowner]

I love having the sightron s3 10x50x60 sfp on my 22 . Ffp increases size with more mag not sfp , sfp is more what it is at any mag . I could be mistaken but I do believe that most not all sfp rets are less cluttered than ffp scopes at least that is how my 2 sfp scopes are but they have a free floating dot in them the delta being even far more fine than the sightron good luck to you with which ever you decide to go with

 

[Kisssofdeath]

SFP with small dot or thin crosshair reticle.

 

[Halfnutz]

Depending on which scope you decide, I would ensure you have a 20+ MOA base.
I have a 36x Sightron on a 0 MOA base, zeroed at 50, I run out of adjustment to get to 200. My Sightron is only a 1 inch tube so the elevation is limited. That scope was bought to shoot rf benchrest at 50yards. The "X" is about 1/8" IIRC.

Target size would matter on my choice of 1st or 2nd focal plane due to the reticle thickness.
If being used as a trainer I would match my scope to be similar to my CF rifle.

 

[MarkCZ]

I'm looking at a 4.5-30 LRS Bushnell for small bore bench shooting at 100-200 yards. It is a SFP mildot reticle.

Anyone have any thoughts on advantages of the FFP over the SFP in benchrest shooting? I'm thinking theSFP might be better as the reticle becomes finer at the higher powers, making precise shots a bit easier.

FFP is only need for keep you mils and hash marks the same at any power. if you are shooting benchrest you want need FFP. I shoot long range steel matches, all my scopes are SFP. The scope you are looking at would work fine.
Mark

 

[Sagittarius]

I went with a Trijicon 5-50x56 in SFP with a small dot and really like it for shooting ABRA matches off the bench.

 

[Diver160651]

FFP is only need for keep you mils and hash marks the same at any power. if you are shooting benchrest you want need FFP. I shoot long range steel matches, all my scopes are SFP. The scope you are looking at would work fine.
Mark

Do you think you might have typed this backward?

SFP for Benchrest, the paper has the MOA graduations on the paper so no matter how inaccurate your zoom or if you use an unscaled duplex (the most common in BR); the target provides the graduations. It's worth noting that most BR ranges are set up so you're not shooting directing into the sun and dealing with lens flare and usually shoot from a very stable bench so heat shimmer and wobble are less than in the field; so zooming out to better see the target is not as common as it is in the field. For long-range steel where targets could be any size, the field use FFP is far superior so that all your wind holds remain accurate at any zoom level so you can better deal with lens flare, heat shimmer, and use a wide FOV when needed.

I use FFP for PRS, FFP for hunting, and FFP for NRL/PRS Rimfire matches and had very good success in all when using them. The idea is to pick the correct scope with the reticle that works for our use.

 

[whatsupdoc]

Rimfire bench you want SFP with 1/8 MOA turrets.

 

[RALA]

Assuming you are going to use the reticle for holdover. Mil-dot is not the best choice benchrest. Mil - standard means the dot is 1 mil in diameter. At 200 yard it will cover 7.2 diameter circle at full magnification. Even if you are going to dial, the cross hairs are on the thicker side.

 

[Calfed]

I might be better off with the SII Sightron 36 x 40 target...it is a little cheaper.

I liked the 4.5-30 Bushnell because it is made by the J.A. Pan Co.

 

[jps2486]

I definitely recomment the Sightron SIII 10-50. You can choose fine cross hair or cross hair with center dot. Shop around and you can get one for around $850 more or less.