Anyone Have any experience with this scope ? Thinking about trying one on my 338 wm, was wondering how they handle The recoil?

I have one on a 270Win and it is fine, and I realize this isn't a magnum cartridge. The only complaint I have with it is above 12X (4-16x44) the sight picture isn't that great but I don't use it above 12X anyway so it doesn't bother me in the least. I bought this scope for the .5 MOA elevation adjustments for shooting longer ranges.

Forgive my ignorance, Luckyducker, but how does a 0.5-MOA adjustment work better at longer range than quarter-inch clicks, which approximate half that distance?

I've used one on my 300 Wby for the last couple of years. I took a muley at 400 yards last year, a bull elk at 100 yards, and a whitetail buck at 350 yards this year. You shouldn't have to worry about the recoil.

Saberman, by using .5 MOA clicks, you can adjust for yardage a lot quicker and get twice the MOA out of one revolution of the turret.

I have one on a Ruger #1 in 300Wby as well and it tracks well and has had no issues holding zero.

Have one on a 30-378, and have had nary a whimper.

Have one on my .308 win, moved it to my .300 rum. no issues

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Originally posted by sambarman338:
Forgive my ignorance, Luckyducker, but how does a 0.5-MOA adjustment work better at longer range than quarter-inch clicks, which approximate half that distance?

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Saberman, by using .5 MOA clicks, you can adjust for yardage a lot quicker and get twice the MOA out of one revolution of the turret.

Sambarman, don't you just love it when you have logic like this splattered before you like cow brains on a slaughter room floor! It has all of the intellectual gravitas of a Donald Trump tweet. A half-minute click is more than 5 inches at 1000 yards. Who can fail to see the advantage of such a precise adjustment?

Thanks Stonecreek and Touchdown88. With all the modern decadences like rangefinders, I guess winding knobs in the field can make sense, though I would forget either to do it or wind them back.

And if I were so obsessive as to want to do this stuff, as Stonecreek suggests I'd start worrying about the lack of precision in half-inch clicks.

But, though I worry about optical problems in going anywhere near the end of your adjustments, I wonder if sportsmanship suggests we should try to get within ranges while hunting big game, at least, that don't require it.

gentlemen, no need to be snippy. I know out where we hunt in SoDak there are a couple of clubs that have ranges where they shoot staked balloons on a range laid out from 600 to 1800 yards. They don't have to track wounded balloons, but they do wind the hell out of their elevation turrets. Pretty amazing at the consistent hits these guys make to 1000 yards and I have seen a couple of the guys hit 1800s. Different strokes I guess.

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Originally posted by Quintus:
gentlemen, no need to be snippy. I know out where we hunt in SoDak there are a couple of clubs that have ranges where they shoot staked balloons on a range laid out from 600 to 1800 yards. They don't have to track wounded balloons, but they do wind the hell out of their elevation turrets. Pretty amazing at the consistent hits these guys make to 1000 yards and I have seen a couple of the guys hit 1800s. Different strokes I guess.

That's a hell of a range you've got out there. Do the guys who have hit the balloons at 1800 yards do it first shot or after someone calls it?

There have been first shot hits, but even walking it in on a party balloon at that distance is not easy. the range is amazing. It is 2 miles out to a flat butte and it looks like a half mile until someone drives out there and they get smaller, and smaller, and smaller! It takes a pretty good set of optics with a steep base and a lot of travel to shoot the full course.

Do they have to go in yellow, hi-viz cars?