1000 yard shooters?

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Thanks - good info.

I've also heard grumblings about Leupold's recent quality control, in particular regarding canted reticles, and more grumbling that Leupold is claiming a fair bit of cant is acceptable. IMO, once you get in the $1000 range, you should be able to expect quite a lot from your scope, and a visually canted reticle isn't something I'd expect to see even on their $200 scopes.

Hard to say if Leupold's learning anything, but once you lose customer loyalty, it's pretty hard to get back.

[Gunner1]

I have been shooting at 1000 yard targets for years and I have been hitting them for months I have six setups of what I would call precision rifles.One I even bought from Nayt. anyhow three have Millett TRS-1'S, two have Leupold Mark 4's (one a 3.5-10x PR and one is a 3.5-10x M3) my last one is an older IOR 6x that I bought at a gunshow in the early 1990's . All of the above have worked flawlessly for me over the years. I know alot of people dont like the Millett scopes because of the duds of the past. I would rate my TRS-1 scopes nearly as good as the Leupolds and my old IOR 6x is actually clearer, brighter when looking at things like road signs or printed words at the same magnification on the Leupolds or Millet scopes when set at similar magnification. The Mark 4 PR scope came with the Savage package deal and I have been quite happy with it for use out to 600 yards in good conditions. They seem to run at $620.00 new when you can find them.
The only reason I bought the M3 was because it was part of a package deal from Ron Smith when he built my Crazy Horse rifle. I shoot metal tagets out to 800 with this rifle in a JAE 100 stock regularly. I dont think it is worth the $1100 price tag but I do like the TMR reticle.
Take PRC329's advice, IOR makes some top quality scopes at relatively good prices.

Gunner

[ar15barrels]

If I build something bigger then 308.

My 50 just came in...

I'm going to be poor again when I decide what optic to put on it.

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Tag to read later.

[Davidwhitewolf]

FWIW with respect to the original poster, my first long-range shooting event was Boomershoot in 2005. The sniper instructor there suggested that for a first scope I might go with the Burris Signature series in their 8-32x44 size. I did and have been quite happy with them (I have one on each of my Boomershoot rifles, a .308 Win and .257 and .300 Weatherbys).

At Boomershoot you're shooting 4" and 7" square exploding targets out to 700 yards. Not 1000 but I'm confident these scopes could handle it.

Price is in the mid-$500s. If the original poster's father has already moved on to a Leupy or (gasp) IOR, more power to him! I only shoot at LR once or twice a year, and the Burrises have been great for that without breaking my budget.

Burris also makes an excellent 3-12 power LER handgun scope. I've used 'em to go out to 800 yards with my pistols.