Thread: 223 Scope

So I'm progressing my lightweight 223 "hunting rifle" project with two potential rifle candidates.

But I'm stuck on how to scope the final choice.

The rifle will be used mainly for the likes of wallabies and goats, with the occasional hare/bunny etc. But with the number of deer about there's always the chance one will pop up when you don't have the ideal caliber in hand.

This leaves me pondering how to scope such a rifle. With the maximum range on game with a 223 being about 300M (and maybe 250 max for deer) for me I'm sorta thinking the 2-7 that one candidate already carries might be pretty good - I can still just smack rabbits at 250 with 7x on other rifles.

But a 3-12 or 4-16 has a certain appeal too.

And then there's dialing . . . With the self imposed limit being under 300 I don't see the need to dial, but I'm interested to hear if people are dialing on game with 223's??