Rifle Scopes Which scope on which rifle

[Unknown]

I have always thought that the rifle with the longest legs gets the scope with the most magnification for resolving things at greatest distance best.

Scopes:
4.5-14x50
6.5-20x50
8.5-25x50

Rifles:
300 Win mag, Mcmillan built M40A1 (nearly 30 years old)24" barrel
Sako TRG22 in 308
Defiance Machine/Obermeyer barrel/Manners stock 260 Remington, 27" barrel

If there is another recommendation than what I'm thinking, please let me know the thinking behind the recommendation.

So far I'm thinking
8.5-25x50 on the 300 Win Mag
6.5-20x50 on the 260
4.5-14x50 on the TRG22

Alternative recommendations and reasons?

 

[71firebird400]

Re: Which scope on which rifle

If you're indifferent to all your scopes then that's an OK way to do it. Personally I'd put the scope I like the most on the gun I shoot the most and go from there. If a rifle's rarely shot then there's no point to put your favorite scope on it.

 

[Unknown]

Re: Which scope on which rifle

All the scopes are Leupold Mk4's, and I really don't have a "favorite" as they are just different tools. I like the TMR reticle in the 4.5-14, the other scopes have mil dots, but I am thinking about returning them to Leupold to have the reticle swapped out.

If all three scopes have the same TMR reticle, would that change how they would be mounted? I run the Exbal program that tells me the distance where each TMR hash mark intersects the bullet's trajectory, so I get 10 different elevation points of impact without any adjustments on the elevation turret.

All the rifles will be shot quite a bit. The 260 will be the newest rifle, so I'll be working up a load, getting the velocity, then running the ballistic program for it.