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Do you guys also find your vehicle's speedometer to be too busy?
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More like do you find all those lines and numbers on your tape measure too busy.Do you guys also find your vehicle's speedometer to be too busy?
On one vehicle the speedometer looks pretty much the same as it did when I started driving at 16, so no. And on the other vehicle it shows big ass digital numbers, so also a no. Bad analogy.Do you guys also find your vehicle's speedometer to be too busy?
I'll buy that analogy. I think from that perspective familiarity reigns; someone who doesn't measure a lot might have to count 1/16ths, but if you are a morning into building a deck, reading that tape in the afternoon is pretty easy.More like do you find all those lines and numbers on your tape measure too busy.
I don’t read a tape measure under duress, and it also hasn’t changed since the decades I’ve been reading one, so also a no.More like do you find all those lines and numbers on your tape measure too busy.
Bingo, familiarity takes something from difficult to easy. If one were to buy into the advantages of a hashed reticle, it wouldn't take more than a few minutes a day for a couple weeks looking through the thing like a pirate to become comfortable and familiar with it.On one vehicle the speedometer looks pretty much the same as it did when I started driving at 16, so no.
I guess the reticle thing was just never that complicated for me. A MOAR still has 2 big ass lines that cross in the middle. Put that intersection on what you want to die and you're done.I don’t read a tape measure under duress, and it also hasn’t changed since the decades I’ve been reading one, so also a no.
It really is pretty easy to learn. You save money on ammo sighting in your rifle and it takes the speed and accuracy of follow up shots to a whole new level. Plus if you have a spotter that speaks mil/moa you can go from something as useless as "kinda high and a little left" to an exact dialing solution of "2 mil high .8 mil left".Bingo, familiarity takes something from difficult to easy. If one were to buy into the advantages of a hashed reticle, it wouldn't take more than a few minutes a day for a couple weeks looking through the thing like a pirate to become comfortable and familiar with it.
My analogy was meant to convey that something as complex as an analog speedometer is so familiar to us that at a split second glance we can read what it is communicating.
Hey I'm with you 100% that most all the reticles these days are way too busy and like I said I was sure happy all those years shooting and killing stuff with the Leupold LRD. But I also noticed when using some of those scopes I never could shoot really great groups, went to a better scope and things tightened up and I felt better about my shooting abilities.My brain freaks out! Not ashamed to admit it. Decades of just seeing crosshairs is hard to unwind. I was gonna shoot a pig with my buddy’s gun and a MOAR on some giant NF just to see if I could do it and because I was curious about the .300 prc. I looked through the thing, the pig started walking and I spazzed out. What do I do now? What is all this shit? How do I use it? Wtf do I do now? I let it walk away.
Even shooting a gong with that gun, my engagement time was twice as long to get a shot off. For my pee brain it’s just to much to see in my view which makes my brain get to over thinking instead of reacting. Just me, I can twist a dial a lot faster than I can dope dots. I’m sure if I practiced I could get it down better, but there’s that thing about old dogs and tricks.
This is one of the reasons I am so hesitant to buy I high end scope.2 conquests I owned failed, without heavy use or side impacts, brand new. During range sighting after mounting. Complete erector failures. After painful discussions with their customer service, they were replaced with new current models which I promptly sold.
Other scopes I have owned failed to, to hold zero that is. If I put away a gun and retrieve it sometime later and shoot zero and it’s off, that is a failure. I dont feel my gun cabinet is the culprit… , but possibly road bumps driving home even in my padded case. Honestly don’t know, don’t care, if a scope loses zero it’s gone and I apply that std to the entire brand until I see test data. I do think side impacts riding in a vehicle, as minor as they are - is a factor to many main stream scopes loss of zero.
10s of thousands of rounds and 1,000s of field days with both Zeiss and Meopta. Zero failures across over 10 of their scopes. It’s a decent sample size, more than probably 95% of shooters and hunters I’d imagine. I daily shot and hunted for a 10 year stretch before I moved down to AZ.This is one of the reasons I am so hesitant to buy I high end scope.
I currently have a Vortex Diamond back on my 308. It's been driven cross country multiple times, Banged up from falls, ejected from a camper during a massive car accident and still held it's zero through all that.
Then I hear about Zeiss, Leupold, Swaros, Kowas allegedly even Nightforce having catastrophic failures for no good reason.
Obviously I'm not saying the Diamondback is better then any of those brands, but it seems like no price range and no brand will keep you from having failure.
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10s of thousands of rounds and 1,000s of field days with both Zeiss and Meopta. Zero failures across over 10 of their scopes. It’s a decent sample size, more than probably 95% of shooters and hunters I’d imagine. I daily shot and hunted for a 10 year stretch before I moved down to AZ.
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