Does a turret lock matter to you?

[Sled]

Capped windage and locking elevation are a plus. If not, they better be solid clicks that don't move when carried by sling over the shoulder.

 

[Fireflyfishing]

No. Check your turrets before you shoot and reset them to zero after you shoot.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Piece of electrical tape around the base of the cap should be all you need if you are worried about it moving. Pull off when it’s time to adjust

 

[Choupique]

Currently have no locking, no caps, no zero stop giant knob SWFA. It hasn't turned unintentionally on me yet in a couple years, but I am militant about checking them both any time I load the rifle and periodically while hunting.

I would greatly prefer capped windage and locking elevation to not worry about it.

 

[JohnJohnson]

I like capped windage, like everyone else. Locking elevation doesn't matter to me.

 

[Stinky Coyote]

I don't put variable zero scopes on my hunting rifles.

As part 2 of your other thread, you just put a scope that won't hold zero on your rifle if it isn't capped or locked. Exposed dialling turrets seem to be just as bad at losing zero as any other reason rifles or scopes lose zero.

 

[Macintosh]

Hard to argue with that ^^. At a minimum its something we can control. Open for debate what an acceptable level of control is, but having had it happen myself once I cant fault the logic, and its a reason why I would not consider an UNcapped turret on a rifle I use +\- entirely in the east—at some level it’s simply more liability than it is asset.

 

[Kurts86]

I would prefer it but since Leupold holds the IP on it and sued Nightforce to not use it I don’t have it on a lot of scopes.

Technically it’s a good thing but it’s prolific on iffy scopes and nearly absent on good ones.

 

[Stinky Coyote]

I would prefer it but since Leupold holds the IP on it and sued Nightforce to not use it I don’t have it on a lot of scopes.

Technically it’s a good thing but it’s prolific on iffy scopes and nearly absent on good ones.

Re Leupold zl fighter:

All nightforce has to do is take this.

https://www.nightforceoptics.com/riflescopes/nx8/nx8-1-8x24mm-f1-capped (Dmx reticle)

And give us a 1.5-12x42 version. Done deal. It could put final bullet into Leupold hunting options. Zero and never even see or touch a dial in field. Ballistic binos spit solution, go straight to reticle, data card backups(screenshots etc) and remove the dialling loss of zero variable completely. Possibly add parallax adjust and even a 2-16x42 option while at it but if like the nx8 1-8x where reticle is very usable from 5x-8x or 37% of top end of mag range a 1.5-12x would be usable from 7-8x onward and the 2-16 might be more like 10x onward. I’d be all over the 12x top end as 7-10x be sweet spot in the glass/Eyebox etc. Maybe they can tune reticle to be as usable for 50% of top end of mag range instead of 37%?

We see the future...hope they are reading here.

 

[MallardSX2]

There is absolutely no way I would hunt with a gun that didn't have a locking turret.

 

[cmahoney]

Nope


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[Dos Perros]

I can visually verify the turrets as I'm closing to 200 yards.