Rifle Scopes One or many

Yup, appropriate sighting system for everything. Too much hassle to mount and sight in each time.

I pretty much have an optic for every rifle too.

Like the others here, I don't typically like bouncing optics around. It gets expensive though.

I do have a 5-25 and a 3.3-18 on single piece mounts that I interchange every once in awhile depending. Torque them to the same weight and honestly I don't notice any zero shift.

I don’t switch my glass out either, BUT I will jump on a deal if I see one and just put the glass on my closet shelf for a rainy day.

I guess you can say my scope box collection is a quarter the size of my wife’s show box collection, but I’m will to bet my collection cost a stuff tom more that her’s. But let’s keep that between than men and women her on the hide!!! Please

I try to buy good quality optics and gear but most of the time I move them around. I don’t know how people can afford to buy so many pieces of expensive gear.

You’d be better focusing on one rifle.

I like variety though and have a pile of diff rifles with scopes. You end up wanting a can for each rifle also.

krumfola said:

I try to buy good quality optics and gear but most of the time I move them around. I don’t know how people can afford to buy so many pieces of expensive gear.

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Agreed. Very easy to move around. I can’t justify having $1000s of dollars sitting on rifles i don’t shoot much. I’d like to but then I think it’s a waste. I have 3 nice scopes in Spuhr mounts I shuffle between 5 rifles. Each to their own though, personal choice. No doubt I’ll have 5 nice scopes soon though

Everything gets an optic for me. I may still switch them around for fun or necessity and I’ve also got one extra scope. If I had a shit ton of rifles I would maybe try to scope at least half since it’s more likely one or more won’t be shot every time.

This is the very obvious difference between a gun SHOOTER and a gun COLLECTOR. If you have to ask this question, I already know which one you are.

HenryTheAce said:

Lol.... oh noooo, you can never be both what a dumb thing to say. Everyone on this forum shoots guns and also “collects” to a certain degree... but you know... money.

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In the past I attempted to have multiple rifles and therefore make certain compromises in optics. What I figured out was that I’d much rather have one ATACR than 2 (insert $1000 scope here.) Everyone has different priorities and budgets. Just saying.... there’s a lot of gun collectors out there.

I thought about swapping and just couldn’t do it so I bought glass for each one. It is expensive but I like to shoot them all and rotate which ones a lot and didn’t want the hassle.

Emmaandhaley said:

I don’t switch my glass out either, BUT I will jump on a deal if I see one and just put the glass on my closet shelf for a rainy day.

I guess you can say my scope box collection is a quarter the size of my wife’s show box collection, but I’m will to bet my collection cost a stuff tom more that her’s. But let’s keep that between than men and women her on the hide!!! Please

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Don't be so sure.

HenryTheAce said:

yeah I’ve been debating on it (bouncing my ZCO around between my AXSA & KAC LPR) but I fear my OCD will kick in looking at a “naked” rifle without a scope on it and being set up and zero’d... then I look at the thousands upon thousands of dollars sitting there and go “wtf am I doing”

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Me exactly too

For me, it's not exactly a 1:1 scope : rifle correspondence, but it's close. Each grab-and-go setup has its own dedicated optic.

Sure it's expensive up front, but if you've got quality glass, it's more like illiquid value than just money burned. I offloaded some low power Leupolds a while ago, and recouped almost all of what I had initially spent on them.

I would Love to have back some of the lower power Leupold scopes I let go.

Optic on every rifle, set up and torqued correctly. My shooting improved considerably when I stopped collecting new shit and screwing with things.

I shoot the same rifle, in the same configuration, with the same load all the time now. I don't care about the latest greatest whizbang gadgets and optics anymore. I bet there's even some improvement that can be made on my load if I put in the time but I haven't bothered.

Variables suck. Consistency matters more to me than just about anything else at this point. If I could start over I'd have saved a ton of money and ammo at the range fucking with screws and sighting in rifles.

To each his own though.

I have quite a few rifles. All of them have their own scope.

I’ve wrestled with this and came to the same conclusions a lot of you have:

1) It’s a silly amount of money, far more than the ammo I spend zeroing

2) I’ll probably end up buying dedicated scopes anyway