Asking this here to avoid derailing the TT Gen3XR thread. If I could wave a magic wand, I'd buy a TT315M with Gen3XR and a locking windage turret today, but I can't. If/when they a G3XR TT315M, I'll buy one. Until then I would entertain spending ~$2k on something else.
The primary rifle for this will be a tarted up GRS/SSG3000 for hunting deer at dawn and dusk and hogs at night (under illumination) with 6.5x55AA 140MTH, and target shooting with 308. Hunting ranges are typically 300 but up to 500 yards. Target shooting out to 700 yards. That's the shooting acreage I'm working with but not the only rifle I'd like to be able to mount this on (using a Spuhr or possibly a Bobro).
Things that attracted me to the TT315M: light weight, wide FOV, low light performance. The reason I want to wait for a Gen3XR and not just go for the Gen2XR: floating dot and 0.2 mils. I can live with non-locking windage turret but a locking one would make it platonically "perfect." If I ever retired it from hunting, it would find a permanent home on a Mk12 clone, with all the warm and fuzzies the Premier lineage would provide. Feel free to make fun of me for that one, but this who I am, dad! (As an aside, a TT315H with a No4 and target elevation turret would be very tempting, but I really don't like duplex rets, or spending $3k on something I can't dial elevation on, so let's pretend I didn't bring a No4 into this).
Around $2k, what should I be looking at instead? Goals are to maximize low light performance, maximize FOV, keep the weight as far under 30 oz as possible, and do so in the neighborhood of 2.5/3-15/18x [ETA: FFP mil-based ret]. Priority is low end FOV over high end magnification. Perhaps the 3-18 XTRIII?
The primary rifle for this will be a tarted up GRS/SSG3000 for hunting deer at dawn and dusk and hogs at night (under illumination) with 6.5x55AA 140MTH, and target shooting with 308. Hunting ranges are typically 300 but up to 500 yards. Target shooting out to 700 yards. That's the shooting acreage I'm working with but not the only rifle I'd like to be able to mount this on (using a Spuhr or possibly a Bobro).
Things that attracted me to the TT315M: light weight, wide FOV, low light performance. The reason I want to wait for a Gen3XR and not just go for the Gen2XR: floating dot and 0.2 mils. I can live with non-locking windage turret but a locking one would make it platonically "perfect." If I ever retired it from hunting, it would find a permanent home on a Mk12 clone, with all the warm and fuzzies the Premier lineage would provide. Feel free to make fun of me for that one, but this who I am, dad! (As an aside, a TT315H with a No4 and target elevation turret would be very tempting, but I really don't like duplex rets, or spending $3k on something I can't dial elevation on, so let's pretend I didn't bring a No4 into this).
Around $2k, what should I be looking at instead? Goals are to maximize low light performance, maximize FOV, keep the weight as far under 30 oz as possible, and do so in the neighborhood of 2.5/3-15/18x [ETA: FFP mil-based ret]. Priority is low end FOV over high end magnification. Perhaps the 3-18 XTRIII?
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