Tanner Pehrson
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What’s everybody use for muzzleloader scope? Does anybody use a tactical style scope with Windage and elevation dials?
You might be surprised, but there are quite a few that turn turrets, especially long range shooters.What’s everybody use for muzzleloader scope? Does anybody use a tactical style scope with Windage and elevation dials?
Its been my experience buy the best you can afford because the low prices scopes will likely give you problems one way or another.
To zero my scopes and take variables out of shooting I use a shooting bench with a lead slide mounted rigidly.
With this setup all the recoil test the scopes ability to stay set. All the low cost scopes have jumped. All the more expensive ones stay set.
Plus the more expensive ones have better focusing capability and clear glass with
much better reticle detail.
How does a 50mm objective help?
Only way I see it helping is on 10X or more. Eye dilated 5mm . Light transmission from scope =Obj mm / power.
50mm/10x =5mm
Being east coast ML guy I prefer 9x and less.
View attachment 3621 I have always used a leupold vx1.5-5x20 on my ML's and rifles. Living in northern New England The furthest shot I've had on a whitetail is 120 yards.
One cautionary note regarding the exit pupil. There is no correlation between the size of a scope's exit pupil and overall optical quality. Some superb scopes have small exit pupils and some real dogs have very large ones. Exit-pupil calculation is a useful tool in selecting scopes, but it isn't the whole toolbox. You should consider everything and then ultimately believe your own eyes.
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