Hey, have a question for some of you guys with much more experience on spotters than I do. The question that I have is whats up with the insane pricing on spotting scopes. A little back ground, I’ve shot USO’s, Leupold mk4’s, NF’s have been a constant in my stable for the past two years, I have access to S&B’s and the new 34mm leupold mk4 ER/T at work, so I have had the chance to look through a lot of high end scope, and in my opinion I really don’t see a profound($1000 +) difference in any specific scope, I can honestly say that I have never really walked away wowing a certain scopes feature or glass quality.
With that being said, for spotting targets when out the range for friends I have traditionally used my NF 8-32 NSX and its been fine at picking up impacts all the way out to 1000 yards on steel, recently I decided to look into getting a spotter, and it seems that pretty what I am reading, that your looking to spend at least 1500 and up to 5000 for a quality spotter with milling recitcal.
Now thinking back to some of the high end scopes that I have messed with in the past and the features that they offered (zero stops, illumination, great track)how are spotters more expensive considering they are simpler in nature(no turrets, illum,ect) its just a larger body with say 20 percent larger glass and an etched rectical, what gives?
This past week I picked up an old m49 and took it out to the one of the firing positions today and was checking it out, and had no problems picking up bullet impacts on steel at around 1000 yards. For a 60 year old scope, I have to say, it held its own for spotting impacts compared to some of the high end scopes I have experience with at almost a tenth of the price. I can honestly say that I was impressed with it. Tomorrow I am going to compare it to our mk4 spotters, and just kind of see how things look.
In understanding that it doesn’t have a ranging rectical or variable power, which would be nice for correction calls in mils or MOA,but it seems as if it can fulfill my needs, spotting for friends, in the mountains of WV, out to 1000 yards on steel) what would I be gaining by going to a more modern design with better glass?
I like high end stuff, have a surgeon 338, custom 300WM in McM stock, LMT MWS, and can see the utility in their pricing, but I just cant squeeze the trigger on a high end spotter
With that being said, for spotting targets when out the range for friends I have traditionally used my NF 8-32 NSX and its been fine at picking up impacts all the way out to 1000 yards on steel, recently I decided to look into getting a spotter, and it seems that pretty what I am reading, that your looking to spend at least 1500 and up to 5000 for a quality spotter with milling recitcal.
Now thinking back to some of the high end scopes that I have messed with in the past and the features that they offered (zero stops, illumination, great track)how are spotters more expensive considering they are simpler in nature(no turrets, illum,ect) its just a larger body with say 20 percent larger glass and an etched rectical, what gives?
This past week I picked up an old m49 and took it out to the one of the firing positions today and was checking it out, and had no problems picking up bullet impacts on steel at around 1000 yards. For a 60 year old scope, I have to say, it held its own for spotting impacts compared to some of the high end scopes I have experience with at almost a tenth of the price. I can honestly say that I was impressed with it. Tomorrow I am going to compare it to our mk4 spotters, and just kind of see how things look.
In understanding that it doesn’t have a ranging rectical or variable power, which would be nice for correction calls in mils or MOA,but it seems as if it can fulfill my needs, spotting for friends, in the mountains of WV, out to 1000 yards on steel) what would I be gaining by going to a more modern design with better glass?
I like high end stuff, have a surgeon 338, custom 300WM in McM stock, LMT MWS, and can see the utility in their pricing, but I just cant squeeze the trigger on a high end spotter
