Gentlemen,

I have just taken delivery of a really nice Schhmidt and Bender 1.25-4x20 Scope with their A2 Reticle. This is a heavy Post but then two fine lines - http://www.schmidtundbender.de...eticles/hunting.html -

I am going to zero like an open sight so that the top of the post is centre of the group. This scope is going to be used principally for driven boar and close range woodland work, but chances are will take the odd longer shot.

What is amazing is the field of view - 33m at 100m. You can keep both eyes open and the post just sits there.

Yes I could have got one with the Flashdot reticle, but that is another £1,000 to what I paid for this one.

are there actually two horizonal lines? I guess my eyes are worse than I thought. I would put the tip of the post exactly where I wanted to hit.

Six o Clock just like a pistol is the way I shoot them. I want the bullet to land just over the tip of the post at the same distance at 100 yards that I would sight a duplex cross hair. For example two inches high at 100 means two inches over the top of the post on the target, or a sliver of light. If you always have your bullet landing over the post at "short and normal" ranges, holding over and obscuring the target is rarely encountered. You can "watch" the bullet all the way to the hair you aimed at in your mind. Very important for confidence. I have old German pointed post scope like that, I have flat top posts as well. Prefer the flat ones but like them all. I also shoot any iron sight front sight the same way so it just works for me. I have shot quite a bit of game with post scopes and post irons. Near and far. My favorite.

I would echo the comment above, go an inch over the tip of the post and point and shoot out 200 yards with most boar calibres.

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Originally posted by Ghubert:
I would echo the comment above, go an inch over the tip of the post and point and shoot out 200 yards with most boar calibres.

+1

If your calibre has a looping trajectory or you sometimes shoot at small targets, I would be inclined to have your group centre even more than two inches above the tip of the picket at 100 yards. My reasoning is that the post can obscure small targets at long distances, so try to have it set up so zero might correspond with where the horizontal wire crosses, say at 200 yards.

You might even note your 100-yard rise as a figure above that crosswire, as the tip of a pointed picket can be hard to see in poor light. That is why many people prefer a flat-topped post, which they can centre small targets over, as you would with an open sight post.

Thanks gentlemen- very much as I thought - just mounted it - its really nice and very fast to aim. Very wide angle at 1.25 power - I can see the last 6" of the barrel and its only a 22" barreled rifle. Cant wait to get out and use it.