Thread: Best reticle for holdover FFP

Originally Posted by Dicko

With a half decent 140 gn pill @ 3850 fps you should be less than 2 moa low at 200 and less than 5 moa at 300 meters.


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You may mean 2850 Dicko.

Originally Posted by Dicko

With a half decent 140 gn pill @ 3850 fps you should be less than 2 moa low at 200 and less than 5 moa at 300 meters.


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technically this is true

Originally Posted by Mrfants

7mm08

Currently Zerod at 100 m.

At 200m distance I have to hold over by 310mm and I dont really have any indicator in the reticle to do that.

So what you’re saying is zero at 200m and shoot straight up to 300m?

How many mm aprox would I hold under to shoot deed at 100m?



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Here's a point blank chart from one of Nick Harvey's manuals.
Point blank in this case means bullet will be within four inches high, or four inches low out to 308 yards.
Sighted 3.3 inches at 100 yards for a zero at 262 yards, not 200 as I previously stated.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

You may mean 2850 Dicko.

I did but was marinated in Shiraz!


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Originally Posted by gimp

technically this is true

Yes, even less drop than at 2850.


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Originally Posted by Dicko

I did but was marinated in Shiraz!


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Bugger.
I was about to ask what powder you were using.

The Arken ones spring to mind as an option. They seem to be well-rated for their price, as far as I can tell from random internet watchings. You also have the option of dialling if you don't want to hold over. Or could dial for elevation, hold for wind (which would be my preferred option). Seems like a versatile set up.

The 4-16 x 44 ones would be my pick. I think 20x zoom is a bit excessive for the ranges you are after and would generally necessitate going up in objective to 50mm. I find 50mm scopes too chunky to lug around for general hunting use.

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Are the reticle/aimpoint on FFP scopes usable on low power?

For low power its best if you have real chunky outer bars like in my photo above.
Scope manufacturers could do better: say a 4 mil gap between the thick posts not 10 like the standard mildot.
‘08 class cartridges need about 1.3 mil holdver btwen a 100m zero and a 300m shot. The 4 mil bracket would then be 20cm at 50m snd the fine central crosshairs could be ignored at short ranges.
Innpractice Ive always been able to see the fine crosshairs but not usually the dots at < 4-5x.

If you have one of those floating or hollow see through mildotters it could be harder and youd need to rely on illumination.

Oh yeah good to know. I see some have an illuminated dot that could be handy. I like the idea of a reticle calibrated for different zoom but might be impractical for my mainly bush hunting

Originally Posted by Longrun

Are the reticle/aimpoint on FFP scopes usable on low power?

On well-designed FFP scopes yes. In general they can be quite thin on initial impression. You rapidly become used to it. I have been using nothing but FFP scopes for something like 15 years. There's no reason to make SFP scopes imo. However the market is only slowly catching up with my point of view so there are limited options.

Originally Posted by Longrun

Are the reticle/aimpoint on FFP scopes usable on low power?

Some are, some aren't, but if you are going to be holding over then you have time to turn the magnification up to somewhere that the reticle subtensions appear larger.