Hunting & Fishing Rapid Z 600

[Hondo64d]

Just picked up a used 3-9 Conquest with the Rapid Z 600 reticle. Got it mounted up and took it out to give it a try. Zeiss website said with a 155gr Scenar at 2865fps, I should be on 8x. Rough zeroed it 1.5" high at 100 and moved back to 600. Shot one round, lowered two clicks and proceeded to pound steel from 300 to 600. Wind was blowing from about 4:30 from 10 to 13 mph. I used the 5 mph wind dot and never missed a shot. the 300, 400 and 500 yard plates were 8" and the 600 was 12". It was just too dang easy. Not as precise as dialing to be sure, but definitely minute of vitals all the way to 600 and way quicker than dialing. I think it's a keeper…

John

 

[coldboremiracle]

You got lucky...

 

[Nuke Man]

My next rifle us going to wear a Zeiss. I don't hear very many complaints.

 

[Hondo64d]

You got lucky...

How so?

John


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[coldboremiracle]

That the reticle matched up to your load with any any degree of accuracy.

 

[Hondo64d]

Seemed pretty simple. Went to the Zeiss website, entered 155gr Scenar (had to change BC in advanced settings. Zeiss was using the G7 as a G1 BC for the Scenar). Entered velocity, altitude, temp, height above bore. It gave me the mag to set the scope on to have the yardages match up. If someone were to expect it to match up on max mag, it would be pretty lucky if it did, I guess. As it was, at 2100 feet, 90 degrees, with my load it suggested 8x. I was surprised by how close the marks matched up at the recommended mag. the 300 yard mark was actually 300, the 400 was 397, the 500 was 502 and the 600 was 605. Worked out that way on steel too. Easily hit well within the center of my plates (8" out to 500 and 12" at 600) out to 600, which is likely as far as I'll be shooting a .308 at critters.

I had some concerns about the windage marks being usable, but they worked quite well. Had a 10 - 13 mph wind from 4:30 to 5:00. Looked at my little chart which gave approximately between a 5 and 8 mph value. I held between the 5 and 10 marks and hit every time. I could see a potential problem with values > 10mph. The windage references max out at 10 mph...

John


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[relentless]

I have the Rapid Z 800 on my 300 Win Mag. Shooting 180 gr Hornadays.
Ringing plates dead on out to 500 yds. Haven't shot past that distance yet.

 

[Name Enough]

The Z-600 is on all my hunting rifles so at this point I have four of them.
Seem to work ok for me too.

 

[greentimber]

The Z-600 is on all my hunting rifles so at this point I have four of them.
Seem to work ok for me too.

Same here. I have five at this point. I've shot deer out to 511 yards with the Rapid Z600. That was a 4.75lb .260 Rem with Barnes 127gr LRX. Many others past 300y have been taken with cartridges from .260 to 300WSM. I use them all on a hard-stop 9x magnification (my scopes are all the 3x-9x model). I don't care for the idea of shooting on 7.83x magnification. I often drop down to 3x in the woods then want to go to a higher magnification for long shots and the hard-stop at full power makes that super easy and eliminates the need for a specific point to be marked on the magnification ring. With half a brain, and JBM (or similar) you can modify your zero point and make just about any modern big game cartridge work. At lower altitude with slower cartridges I've used the holdover lines for the next shortest range. In other words, the 400 yard stadia is my 300 yard aiming point, the 500 yard stadia is my 400 yard aiming point, and the 600 yard stadia is my 500 yard aiming point. With fast magnums you can back your zero range down and line things up. Most cartridges in the middle you just tweak your zero range. Reticle diagrams are available online or you can use the reticle feature in iStrelok to do the work for you. The RZ600 is super fast and has been extremely flexible and accurate in my experience. If you don't care about using a heavy scope then you can obviously turn knobs on a big tactical scope. That's defeating the purpose on a 4.75lbs ULA model 20, though.

 

[relentless]

Thanks for the report. I was considering getting one of these for my 7x57 shooting 168 gr VLDs.
I have the 4.5 - 14 Rapid Z 800 on my 300 Win Mag & its a great setup.