I recently bought a scope system at my local gun shop and the person who purchased one before me was an LE sniper.
The Sig Sauer BDX 2.0 system was what I got and it's just fantastic. It takes all of the guess work out of making long distance shooting.
There are quite a few videos on YouTube that show the system in action, and while some may say that it's cheating, I think that when lives are on the line, anything you can do to improve your ability to take a perfect shot, I believe you should use it.
Again, it's the Sig Sauer BDX 2.0 system. Check it out on YouTube and see what you think, but the LE sniper who got one before me was really thrilled with its operation. Best of luck and stay safe.
As a former combat sniper who had multiple deployments and assignments I successfully completed, I'm also a guy who ended up with TBI symptoms that have left me with disabling symptoms I can't see like I did when I was a kid.
I retired after heading up my firm that provided security consulting for schools and offices due to having trouble from a never-ending, intractable migraine, I just can't see very well because of auras that are another symptom.
So, having the Sig Sauer BDX scope system allows me to shoot nearly as well as I did back when I was still a young guy.
I spent 15 years, from the age of 17 until I was 32, serving the US as a sniper.
Living this long is an experience many of my brothers never had.
Of course, I CAN still visit them ... By going to Arlington National Cemetery.
Not being as fully functioning now is just how it goes for some of us who honorably served this country.
The fact that a Sig Sauer BDX system allows me to shoot well on my little 60-acre horse farm in the middle of nowhere in Virginia truly helps me feel better.
Being able to carry the rifle I inherited from my Cherokee grandfather and knowing that it's the 1st rifle I shot that wasn't a .22, is a remarkable gift.
My Cherokee grandfather taught me to track anything from a deer, human being, rabbits, raccoons, birds, even leaves and pine needles. Tracking is not really that different from using the theory that French criminologist Edmund Locard's exchange principle. His ground breaking work and the establishment of the 1st CSI lab was the precursor of modern criminal science investigation laboratories.
On addition to tracking, he taught me stalk, hunt and especially to shoot.
After my inheritance of an FN Herstal Mauser 98k chambered in 30-06, I took it out of the beautiful walnut stock and replaced it with an Archangel, composite stock, reminiscent of the advanced stocks from my time as a military sniper and saving the exceptional walnut one from the abuse it would have taken.
I've got a friend who is also a combat veteran owns a gun shop and is an excellent gunsmith. I asked him to work his magic on my old Mauser.
He rehabbed my barrel, reworked the slide, aded scope rings, and eventually mounted the Sig Sauer BDX 2.0 scope system to my then 82 year old FN Herstal Mauser 98k.
The rifle is now 83 years old, information that I verified with FN Herstal itself. They looked up my serial numbers to verify the date of manufacture and called me at home letting me know their results.
That I'm still shooting the rifle my Cherokee grandfather used to teach me long distance shooting over 55 years ago means a lot to me. He crossed over after I separated from government service, and meant so much to me. I feel very privileged to have a reminder of those times together, and that I'm able to shoot very accurately because of the BDX scope system.
I'll take an advantage to help me cope with not seeing as well as I once did, and especially because of the problems from combat TBI. Do I wish I was not injured? You bet, but I'll take living with this as a better option to what my brothers have since I can only visit them in Arlington.
So, before anyone gets their little jollies from the fact that some of us can't shoot as well as you and need some extra help, learn before you give us old combat vets a hard time, because we are diminished from serving our country, your country too very likely.
The other thing is that if you have family that served in combat who came home from serving, there's a chance that a sniper serving on overwatch duty kept your family safe.
