I need suggestions for a scope on a 300wsm. I want too be able too have a turret built so i can dial the yardage. any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Forgot to mention this is for a hunting rig.

I have an old Leupold Vari-X III 4.5-14 I bought from Premier Reticle that gas worked well for me. There is better glass and most all the scope makers have target knobs for their scopes. Really depends on how much you plan to use it versus how much you are willing to spend.

Check out the Zeiss Conquest 6.5x20 offered by Camera Land for $550 in the classifieds. It has target turrets if I remember correctly.

anyone had a custom turret done? and if so how accurate are they. Looked at swarovski 3x18 can you have a turret built for them?

Maybe look at huskemaw. I think gray wolf does custom turrets. I use a vortex pst. I shot theu a chrono and put all info in computer ballistic program. Then print out a chart showing how many clicks to turn for distance and wind. I have a business card size chart attached to scope with small chart out to 550 yds

Brent has a very good suggestion. Someday, you may want to transfer that scope to another rifle, and the custom turrent won't be of much use to you then. I would only add, once you have the settings from the program, go out and test them on the range to fine tune.

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Originally posted by Johnny reb:
I need suggestions for a scope on a 300wsm. I want too be able too have a turret built so i can dial the yardage. any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Learn how to use MOA turrets. Yardage marks made for sea level are not going to workout very well at 8,000 elevation.

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Originally posted by jwp475:

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Originally posted by Johnny reb:
I need suggestions for a scope on a 300wsm. I want too be able too have a turret built so i can dial the yardage. any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Learn how to use MOA turrets. Yardage marks made for sea level are not going to workout very well at 8,000 elevation.

Actually, if you have a BR2 rangefinder it will tell you the effective distance, then you can dial in for that. But in all fairness, MOA works as well and you don't have to worry about yardage marks. I used to create range cards and tape them to my buttstock but better than a range card is to just make up a your own ballistic turret using some label stock:

http://envoyoutdoors.com/do-it...this-and-save-money/

As for scopes, I love Nightforce. Leupold works, but their turret set screws come loose to often and you don't know where the heck you are. March is the best lightweight LR scope in my opinion.

How much magnification do you prefer and what objective size?

Two Good ones are the Kahles 624i or the Zeiss FL 4-16x50 and 6-24x56. The Zeiss HT 3-12x56 is a nice scope too if you are happy with the lower magnification range. All have good glass and turrets.

I have heard that the glass in the new Nightforce ATACR scope is an improvement over the NSX but I haven't tried one yet.

I use a 2.5-10x32 Nightforce on a custom .270 WSM, and a BR2 rangefinder. It works as AZWriter has described. No problem on Marmots out past 600 yards.