#10MinuteTalk – Long Range Riflescope Choice – Competition vs Recreation

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🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We see it all the time – New shooters come to the internet for advice on a riflescope for their first long range rifle and are instantly berated by all the gear junkies who look to the absolute top of the top competitive shooters for all their gear with super expensive and complicated options that they apparently “Have to get” to somehow avoid utter failure and frustration. Nick Laufenberg joins us for this 10 minutes (Plus a bonus at the end) to explain the differences between what a recreational target shooter might actually need at the bare minimum vs what a competitive tactical long range shooter would require for their matches. In the end, he also discusses a riflescope’s theoretical maximum capable range with any given rifle based on its available travel and subtensions in the reticle.

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0:13.5	What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here with Nick Loffenberg to discuss kind of the difference if you will between maybe a regular recreational long-range shooting rifle scope and a competition PRS rifle scope something like that. Nick himself does shoot PRS matches,
0:15.6	as you've probably heard in some of our previous 10-minute talks
0:18.2	in podcasts, and Mark and I are rather recreational long-range shooters
0:22.2	at times. But I know I spend a lot of time
0:24.7	on the forums representing Vortex and the Reddit land as well, and I see many times somebody
0:31.1	comes on, they're a new shooter shooter they say they're going to be
0:33.0	shooting long range sometimes to them that might even be 500 yards it's not even a
0:36.9	thousand but they say they're going to be shooting long range they ask for
0:40.3	suggestions and immediately the internet comes in droves saying first
0:45.1	focal plane or die if you don't have a zero stop it's a paper weight you know if you
0:49.2	don't have 34 millimeter tubes or bigger than you're going to be running out of adjustment at 300 yards.
0:54.2	I mean crazy things like this.
0:55.8	You need this, you need this.
0:58.2	Best optical quality.
0:59.2	And next thing you know, this person who just kind of thought maybe I can get some help and I might try this sport out is being recommended a $2,500 rifle scope, you know?
1:07.5	Completely overwhelmed, they gave up to going golfing.
1:10.0	You know what, I say that there's probably as much stuff to golfing as well.
1:13.3	Oh what club do I need?
1:14.3	Oh geez here we go.
1:15.3	Yeah exactly so anyway we brought Nick along here.
1:17.4	Nick what are what are some of the things I guess that for a regular long-range
1:21.2	shooter that they should be looking at as the bare minimums
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