your main western rifle - scope reticle type

[buffybr]

two of the 3 choices have nothing to do with reticles. is it a reticle question or a turret question?

OK, I have Leupolds on most of my rifles. My favorite is their VX 3i 4.5-14x40 CDS with their Wind Plex Reticle.

 

[wind gypsy]

OK, I have Leupolds on most of my rifles. My favorite is their VX 3i 4.5-14x40 CDS with their Wind Plex Reticle.

So you're a dial turret kinda guy?

 

[buffybr]

So you're a dial turret kinda guy?

For the past 4-5 years, yes. For the 50 previous years my scopes had either fine crosshairs or duplex crosshairs.

I've been a handloader since I bought my first centerfire rifle, a .30-06, back in 1967. Back then I would load 125 gr bullets for varmints, 150 gr bullets for deer, and 180 gr bullets for elk. Every time I hunted a different species I would have to re-zero my scope.

In 1977 I had my .30-06 rechambered to .30 Gibbs and loaded it with 180 gr Nosler Partitions for my elk rifle.

I built a .257 Ackley and loaded it with 117 gr Sierra GameKings for deer and antelope, and

I built a .22-250 for varmints.

I've since added a few more caliber rifles, but I primarily stick with one hunting bullet for each rifle. Then I pick the rifle/bullet for the animal that I will be hunting. If the hunt has multilple animals, I pick the rifle/bullet best suited for the largest animal.

I zero all of my turret scoped rifles at 100 yards, then I range verify the bullet hits at 200, 300, and 430 yards and I mark the top of the turrets with a white dot at 100 yds and white hash marks at 200, 300, and 430 yards.

Then, depending on the terrain where I'm hunting, I usually have the scope magnafication set on a low power, and the turret set at 100 or 200 yards.
Dot at 100 yds, and hash marks at 200, 300, and 430 yards

 

[rabbithuntr]

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[dashender7]

LRHS Mil tree. I use the tree for wind and elevation. No dialing.

 

[jimh406]

There doesn't seem to be a choice of Duplex. I think we have a terminology problem.

 

[CaptainZeb]

Leopold VX5HD Windplex. Using a 6.5-300bee zeroed at 325yards. Easily hold for wind and drop out to 500yards.

 

[Valumpessa]

Leupold VX-3i 4.5-14x40 w Boone & Crockett reticle