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    New Kahles K328i

    -Trigger cam isn't compatible -the ocular bell gets in the way of a 90 degree bolt throw -mounting requires a cantilever 1-piece -mag numbers aren't raised -glass is great -field of view is ridiculous -you love the left side windage and top-center parallax -you wish it was longer and had a 56mm...
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    SPR Optic

    Depends on your optic and what you're willing to spend. Illumination certainly solves a lot of low end mag reticle issues. Certainly unusable for holds, but then, if you're trying to do holds at sub 4x you're wrong. Even using a 5x erector is a big improvement over the tech available 20 years...
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    SPR Optic

    The goal was to be able to send a guy out with an accurized, scoped AR in a team of other guys with ARs at a time when virtually all ARs used 3.5x ACOGs or red dots. This allowed for shared ammo, while also giving additional range/precision to the group. Today's 6x and 8x erector scopes give...
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    SPR Optic

    You're 60 days out from Shot Show. Might make sense to wait.
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    Advice for hunting scope: Nightforce SHV 3-10 or older Swarovski 1.5-6?

    If you're going to set the Swaro up with something like a 250 yd zero with no expectation of shooting past 300 yds, it's going to be tough to beat in terms of low light performance. If you think you might want the ability to shoot further than that I'd look at the other options.
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    Zeiss LRP S3 - setting zero stop below zero

    You hit the top of that box instead of the bottom and you just missed on a 1 MOA target. If someone wants the ability to make dialing corrections over these short distances, a 35 yd zero takes care of the need to dial below your zero. It's cool that it's not a problem for you, but it's...
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    Zeiss LRP S3 - setting zero stop below zero

    it eliminates a need to dial down on very small targets. Use it or don't, but it solves his problem.
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    Zeiss LRP S3 - setting zero stop below zero

    might want to consider zeroing at 35 yards.
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    Rifle Scopes Are ADM QD, verical split ring mounts that bad?

    Vertically split rings can pinch the tube but I don't think the ADM design allows that unless over torqued. I've had good luck with their mounts so far
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    Help Me Pick Rangefinding Binos (2025)

    EL Range is probably the best binocular on the list, but the laser is only good out to 2200 yds. The ballistic solver is also only good until the projectile is subsonic, after which it doesn't give values. Swaro's solver, Hornady, and Strelok are normally within a click at a given distance...
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    Rifle Scopes Questions on older Kahles Helia L - 3-12x56

    Here's the manual: https://www.kahles.at/fileadmin/downloads/KAHLES_4x32_6x42_7x56_8x56.pdf Push on the turret to create friction and turn it. Once you've made your adjustments, loosen the off-centered screw to rotate the index disk and mark zero.
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    Why would a scope be made with MOA turrets and Mil-Dot reticle

    There aren't many. The ones I know of are Kahles and Swarovski, but it's pretty limited. Z3/Z5 scopes with 1/4 IPHY turrets and Mil-dot trees Z6/Z8 scopes with 2 MOA wind hashes and Mil turrets. K16i with the SI1 reticle is 1/10th mil clicks but an MOA subtended reticle. Those designs are...
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    Why would a scope be made with MOA turrets and Mil-Dot reticle

    I was really excited to see an MOA Ranging Reticle when I realized that the one on the bottom was in Mils.
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    Why would a scope be made with MOA turrets and Mil-Dot reticle

    Thank you for clarifying that you were referring to turrets. Seems to have been a rolling change as more and more scopes were used more and more widely. You had S&B PMII 3-12x50s and Nightforce 2.5-10x32s being fielded alongside Leupold's and Unertl's. I think the PMII went on in 2007 but I'm...
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    Why would a scope be made with MOA turrets and Mil-Dot reticle

    As you said, "They were using them out of necessity". Why? Because the actual tool they needed didn't exist outside of a mil-dot reticle. Knowing the values of your hair to post distance isn't the same as having an increment subtended reticle. Since the question was "When did the military...
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    Why would a scope be made with MOA turrets and Mil-Dot reticle

    Interesting, all of the versions I'm able to find of the T6 AO are either a fine hair, a center dot, or a plex. Pretty cool if they had an actual MOA-based drop/ranging reticle in a scope like that. Would love to see what it looked like. All of the older drop reticles that I'm familiar with are...
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    Why would a scope be made with MOA turrets and Mil-Dot reticle

    You're right. This is a ranging reticle.
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    Why would a scope be made with MOA turrets and Mil-Dot reticle

    Yup, it's a conversion from a tedious measuring system into a useful one. MOA is great for quickly knowing the size of a correction in inches at a distance but determining the distance of an object of known size is unpleasant math. The benefit of a "mil" for range estimation is that a mil is a...
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    Why would a scope be made with MOA turrets and Mil-Dot reticle

    Show me an MOA based ranging reticle from when it was common to have scopes with unmatched turrets.
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    Why would a scope be made with MOA turrets and Mil-Dot reticle

    The reticles were never MOA. MOA is not useful for measuring the distance to target, so they were never used.
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