I’ve had good luck with all of my Leupold Mk5s and have also had good luck with my Atacrs. For me it just comes down to personal preference. I prefer the Mk5s but it’s only because of illumination controls and the ocular focus rings.
I’m a Leupold fan over Nightforce for personal preference reasons but loved my Atacr 4-16 other than the ocular focus ring being easy to unlock when adjusting magnification
I would go .223/5.56. I’ve had pretty good luck with my 14.5” in the last year or two. Mostly shooting within 100 yards and using 70gr TSX and 77gr SMK. Wanna give some 62Gr T-TSX a try this year.
I’ve shot 2 does with 77gr SMKs from a 14.5” Criterion barreled AR at 65 yards and the furthest I’ve had to track was 3 yards so far. I was extremely hesitant to try the round on deer at first but after reading this thread for weeks I gave it a “shot” and it was actually pretty astounding the...