Originally Posted by
sabotloader
Breechplug
You are making it way to difficult... Who cares what load they designed the scope for.
Shoot your regular load with the scope on 9x - zero @ 100 yards or in my case I use a 3" Point Blank Range - so I end up shooting a group 2.5 inches high @ 100 that will give me a zero @ 165 yards...
The next thing i do is shoot @ 175 with the main cross hair dead and check for impact. I then repeat the process using the next mark on the scope and note that point of impact. Move the target to 200 and repeat the process. I do one finally shoot @ 225. With that information I am able to use the reticule for my load(s). So in effect it does work for me and I am really happy with it or any of the other ballistic reticule scope that I have.
I still have an Mil-Dot scope that I also used alot - but at this point I do prefer the ballistic reticules in both the U-Slam and my different Bushnell 3200's.
The only ML that I do not have a Ballist reticule on is my Knight DISC - 45 cal. I use the PBR and it also but it shoots the 200 grain Lehigh so flat - it is all the same to 200 yards - that makes it really easy.
Mike, this is why I had a problem using the scope other than the way I shghted in using my load the same as you did (almost) First Leupold said and I talked to 3 different people there, that you had to use 9power all the time using the SABR Reticle. So say I had a close shot at 20yds, 9 power would be way too much to use as the target would be way too close. So I could'nt sight in the way they said using 9 power, then change it to say 2 power for a close shot as my marks would be off.
They told me that when I change power on the scope the reticle lines, or dots also change from closer to further apart depending on what power you choose. This may be wrong but that's what they told me. So I just picked a power, and in my case used 5 power all the time to sight in, so the SABR reticle lines would'nt change on me. It did'nt seem right to me that they would change with different power settings but that's what I was told.
Are they wrong, I hope so as the scope is way to complicated to do it there way and what they said the scope will do when you change power settings. Now that I have used (my) way to sight in it works good, or is there another way? I hope Leupold is wrong!
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