Re: Tactical vs Regular hunting Scope?
If you are VERY competent at ranges over, say, 300 yards, then there is a lot to be said for tactical scopes. Whatever you use, you obviously need to be very familiar with it. I have set up rifles for my sons and wife, and, to keep it simple, they are all running at maximum point blank ranges of about 320 yards with .270s and a .30-06, so the zero is well out past 100 yards and any crosshair will do. The way I figure it, beyond 300 yards is getting sketchy for all of us in hunting situations on a live animal. I have no problem slinging lead at a steel plate at over 1,000 yards, but I allow a much slimmer margin of error on animals, and having to input dope or holdover and make sure the scope is on the correct magnification (funny how often you want low magnification to find the animal but need high magnification for most calibrated, non-FFP reticles) and shoot from a field position complicates things more than necessary. If I only had to worry about my setup, it would be tactical all the way.