On the range today, I talked to a journalist (gunwriter) acquaintance of mine. He always gets to test interesting new toys - new guns, new scopes, you name it. A major international ammo manufacturer even seems to keep him supplied with "reject" ammo for nothing!! Oh, to be a gunwriter!!

Anyway, today's new toy was a Swaro scope to be released sometime next year - as I understood it, please don't get hung up on details. It seems that Swaro is planning a simple but effective way to deal with varying elevation at different ranges - that is if you like clicking to dial in on different ranges.

Rather than rely on "generic" trajectory calculations and build this into a dial, Swaro's rather simple approach was to allow shooters to clearly mark the zero point for various ranges. I.e. you zero the gun a 100, 200, 300, 400 (or whatever), and for each zero a simple marker is set to allow you to find this location of the elevation dial again. So the marked points actually are set with your gun and your load. (I think you can have dials custom made to much the same effect these days?? But they would only work for one gun/load combo).

The range (dial) markers came in the form of 3 or 4 small plastic rings, each with a different single point colour marker on them. On top of the elevation dial was some sort of "tower", which allowed the various marker rings to be placed and guaranteed their relative position to each other - marker rings had teeth on the inside diameter fitting onto teeth on outside of the dial tower. (Was that at all understandable?).

Anyway, I thought this looked really nice and simple. You sight in gun at 100, set first marker, sight in at 200 set second marker, sight in at 300 set third marker etc etc. I'm sure this could be used in a million different ways.

Apparently, the new feature is planned for Swaro's A series, and perhaps one additional model which I have forgotten.

Neat idea, knowing Swaro, though, it may not be inexpensive??

- mike

Mike, this sounds somewhat like the Kahles multi zero that has been around for a few years now?

Like the Burris " Sako Quad"?

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Originally posted by Collins:
Like the Burris "

That looks VERY much like it. The Swaro model I saw (prototype?), did not have the scale on each of the marker rings, and the rings were coloured differently, but otherwise it looks like an equivalent (or even identical?) system. Nothing new under the sun, I guess...

Claret, I did ask my journalist acquaintance about similarities to the Kahles Multi-Zero system. His comment was that the two systems were different, he used the term "more complicated" about the Kahles system. I can't comment on either similarities or complexities of the two systems, as I know of the Kahles system but have no personal experience with it.

- mike

Hey mike

I have a Kahles MultiZero 4x12x52 and it is not very complicated once you figure it out. It definitely works.

Check out the video by downloading one of these. The advantage is that you can put this scope on any rifle and caliber and set ranges. Mine is on a 280AI and is set for the 160 gr Accubond at 3000 fps.

You can actually set the marks at the 100 yard range by computing the drop and setting your impact points for different ranges.

Yo Woods, regarding the Kahles Multizero, don't forget I was quoting another party's comment. I also noted I did not have the experience to verify (or refute) his comment. I'll take your word for the practicality of the system, though.

In general, Kahles products seem to be of very good quality.

- mike