venatic
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I bought a scope a while back and while tinkering with some loads over the week-end I decided to try a box test with this scope since it had nice well marked resettable tactical style knobs.
Before I reveal what brand and model I thought I would get some feedback on what folks thought about how well it tracked and performed after looking at the targets. I did two targets mainly because it was a spur of the moment deal and on the first smaller target I only moved the scope in a 3 inch square. The scope clicks are 1/4 inch MOA so on the first target I fired one shot and then I dialed up 3MOA from 0 then 3MOA to the right and then back to 0 on elevation and then returned my windage to 0 and fired a 5th shot back in the original bullseye.
Here is the target. The clusters of 3 shot groups were from some test loads and another scope but the same DTech 20 tac. As you can see only shot number 3 seemed off a little too far right and I am not sure if it was scope or wind or.....
Someone left a perfectly good target with no bullet holes so I took a tape measure and measured between the 5 bulls-eyes and it was exactly 4 inches elevation and I thought 4 inches right and left of the center bull but once I got home they are actually 3 3/4 inches right and left of the dead center bull.
Anyhow I went back after measuring and sat down at the bench and again fired once in the center bull then dialed up to 4MOA and then right 4MOA fired no.2 went left 8MOA fired no.3 back right to 0 and down to 0 shot at the original bull and then did the same on the bottom two bulls.
So what do you think? It's not perfect but is it good enough to trust for dialing to take a long range shot and return to zero.
Here is the second target.
Oh and you are welcome to guess what brand scope it was if you like.
Before I reveal what brand and model I thought I would get some feedback on what folks thought about how well it tracked and performed after looking at the targets. I did two targets mainly because it was a spur of the moment deal and on the first smaller target I only moved the scope in a 3 inch square. The scope clicks are 1/4 inch MOA so on the first target I fired one shot and then I dialed up 3MOA from 0 then 3MOA to the right and then back to 0 on elevation and then returned my windage to 0 and fired a 5th shot back in the original bullseye.
Here is the target. The clusters of 3 shot groups were from some test loads and another scope but the same DTech 20 tac. As you can see only shot number 3 seemed off a little too far right and I am not sure if it was scope or wind or.....
Someone left a perfectly good target with no bullet holes so I took a tape measure and measured between the 5 bulls-eyes and it was exactly 4 inches elevation and I thought 4 inches right and left of the center bull but once I got home they are actually 3 3/4 inches right and left of the dead center bull.
Anyhow I went back after measuring and sat down at the bench and again fired once in the center bull then dialed up to 4MOA and then right 4MOA fired no.2 went left 8MOA fired no.3 back right to 0 and down to 0 shot at the original bull and then did the same on the bottom two bulls.
So what do you think? It's not perfect but is it good enough to trust for dialing to take a long range shot and return to zero.
Here is the second target.
Oh and you are welcome to guess what brand scope it was if you like.
