I am building a hunting rifle.
ARC Nucleus short action with a 16" Light Palma barrel and Dead Air Sandman S run by a Trigger Tech Special, mounted in a Manners EH4 mini chassis stock, with a Harris bipod, if at all. The whole thing should be pretty light and a great hunting rig out to 500 yards which is all I see to and would feel ethical harvesting game at (just me).
I am looking at a few optics. I want something short and light, that I can mount in low rings, want a objective no smaller than 30 and no bigger than 50, want a zoom range of 3ish to 20ish. Has to be illuminated. Has to have accurate turrets with a zero stop, and I prefer a capped windage. Hoping to spend $2500 or less on optics.
I already own and really like MK5 3-18, (and 5-25, and 7-35, love them for match guns) but don’t really want another. I shoot at PRS matches regularly so between that and all you animals, I am getting to be a glass snob. This rifle won’t see a ton of use so a $3500 scope isn’t right and my un- illuminated match optics won’t pull hunting duty...
Thinking about:
NF NX8 in either 2-20 or 4-32,
NF ATACR in 4-16x44 or 4-16x50
(All with Mil-C or Mil-XT reticle)
I think the K318i, minox, ZCO 420 and the like are out of my budget, unless someone has a lead on a used one. Vortex is fine but not my jam and usually heavy.
Is there anything I am not thinking about I should be or a particular NF scope I should lean toward? I think I am favoring the 4-16x42, but am pretty torn on what to do.
Thank you
MM
ARC Nucleus short action with a 16" Light Palma barrel and Dead Air Sandman S run by a Trigger Tech Special, mounted in a Manners EH4 mini chassis stock, with a Harris bipod, if at all. The whole thing should be pretty light and a great hunting rig out to 500 yards which is all I see to and would feel ethical harvesting game at (just me).
I am looking at a few optics. I want something short and light, that I can mount in low rings, want a objective no smaller than 30 and no bigger than 50, want a zoom range of 3ish to 20ish. Has to be illuminated. Has to have accurate turrets with a zero stop, and I prefer a capped windage. Hoping to spend $2500 or less on optics.
I already own and really like MK5 3-18, (and 5-25, and 7-35, love them for match guns) but don’t really want another. I shoot at PRS matches regularly so between that and all you animals, I am getting to be a glass snob. This rifle won’t see a ton of use so a $3500 scope isn’t right and my un- illuminated match optics won’t pull hunting duty...
Thinking about:
NF NX8 in either 2-20 or 4-32,
NF ATACR in 4-16x44 or 4-16x50
(All with Mil-C or Mil-XT reticle)
I think the K318i, minox, ZCO 420 and the like are out of my budget, unless someone has a lead on a used one. Vortex is fine but not my jam and usually heavy.
Is there anything I am not thinking about I should be or a particular NF scope I should lean toward? I think I am favoring the 4-16x42, but am pretty torn on what to do.
Thank you
MM
