Day one chasing desert mulies, guiding a buddies nephew. The Tikka .260 and Maven are along for the journey as a backup rifle. The kid is using a Savage .30-06 rifle and Vortex scope, so the probability of me handing him my rifle is high depending on shot distance. Trying to get him in close.
We are out in the Jeep running the rough roads. Also hiking up some pretty steep and nasty terrain with the rifle.
No major dings to the rifle or scope yet. Just a lot of general field use in its short life so far. Minor bumps along rocks and cactus, climbing the steep faces to glassing spots… Nothing too crazy.
Having a lot of fun getting sight pictures on deer and these guys… These guys were at 300 yards and 6X was perfect for me at that range. I cold clearly see 6 sheep in my FOV while moving between them getting sight pictures from different positions.
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Falling in love with the reticle and how smooth the zoom dialing in and out is. Still haven’t touched the parallax off of the 200 setting… I got sight pictures on mulies at 1,300 yards, on 15X, and left parallax at 200. Zero issues. Eye box isn’t finicky at all and neither is parallax.
We have 3 more days to try and get him onto a dandy buck. Hopefully the Maven doesn’t have to make an appearance and make a kill haha.