| Posted: Mon Aug 17th, 2009 07:16 AM |
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mfriman
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I found one scope some 7 years ago which stands head and shoulders above the rest for big game and dangerous game hunting at short distances of less than 150 meters. It is the Zeiss Classic 1.1-4*24 with the number 25 reticle which currently available as special order only.
You can view the scope at:
http://www.zeiss.de/C12567A80033F8E4/?Open
The clou of this scope is the reticle which essentially looks like a thin horisontal line with a huge dot in the middle. It cover about one foot at 100 yard on lowest magnification and about 5" at highest magnification. The field of wiew is such that you can easily shoot a leaping/charging lion/bear/buffalo at less than 10 yards.
It currently sits as the only or the second scope on all of my big and dangerous game rifles.
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Mikael
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17th, 2009 01:09 PM |
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msisut
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Hi Mikael,
I am curious about the caliber rifle you are using this Zeiss Scope on. For sure, the Zeiss lenses are fantastic.
Thanks, Glenn
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20th, 2009 03:10 PM |
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mfriman
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Hello Glenn,
I have this scope currently on four different rifles, one Sako 75 in 458WM, one Sako 75 in 338 WM, one Tikka 65 in 338 WM and one Sako 75 in 300 WSM. These scopes evidently don't suffer under recoil since I tend to shoot a lot every year during practise. Only about 20 shots on hooved game per year.
Like previously mentioned the main feature is the #25 reticle. The dot on the running line is huge if you compare with the (illuminated) dot reticles on the various Zeiss Varipoints.
In my humble opinion lighted reticles are only needed if you can shoot in so dark conditions (=way beyond sunset/before sunup) that it does not matter what species/gender/quality of game you happen to kill. Thus the benefit of a lighted reticle is only evident in so dark conditions that you cannot properly identify the game with best available binos. Electronics are forbidden for this purpose under normal hunting conditions where I hunt and where I live. I do however reserve the right to revise my opinion after my fiftieth birthday :) as vision capabilities in darkness deteriorates quite fast as one ages.
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Mikael
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21st, 2009 12:58 PM |
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Since having problems with scope movement on heavy rifles I have started putting a drop of black finger nail polish on the rear junction point between the scope and scope rings. If the scope slips it will show as a white line where the nail polish is broken.
I wish someone would test the Trijicon Acog scopes as used by the U.S. military on a DGR as they have proven very tough in combat. I saw a demo where they dropped a mounted scope and rifle upside down on the rocks and it held POI with no damage to the scope. I wouldn't want to do that with any of my Leupolds.
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