The preset range set up by the manufacturer sounds super easy. However, the problem with this is that it was test fired with a test gun, for a very specific caliber, grain, wind conditions, and elevations.
There really is a lot of variation with any of these elements to say that if tested under perfect conditions, your shot is going to hit true to the yd drop prediction when you are on anything but flat terrain, with 10mph winds, on a different rifle than what was tested, at a different grain weight.
Generally, this completely changes the ball game and makes your range marks unreliable at best. The whole design of this reticle was to be fast and user-friendly. If you are able to correctly calculate your range and where your shots are actually placing, then you can easily use this function for how it was intended.
If you really want to get the most out of your reticle, it ultimately comes down to you practicing and shooting your gun. You just need to know your gun and how your scope places. So practice, practice, practice! This is a long range scope, so if you are wanting to land that yd shot, you had better be out target shooting and getting the feel of this reticle and fine-tuning it to you, rather than taking it out of the box, throwing it on your rifle and going out to do some hardcore hunting.
The general images you are probably used to are a regular cross-hair pattern or mil dots. Either way, there will be the center mark with dots or dashes on the vertical and horizontal planes.
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Buy an Online Course. Buy a Book. Buy a Video. A suggestion if you are thinking about going down this path: Take the time to shoot a few groups of the rifle through a chronograph to determine the average bullet speed of the particular ammo that you want to use. Relying on estimated bullet speed data from the rifle maker or ammunition maker is the single biggest mistake I see with this type of turret. The concept behind this approach is relatively simple: You provide the custom turret maker all the necessary data caliber, ammunition, bullet speed, sight-in distance, etc.
While this is a more custom option than what you see with a more generic caliber-based BDC set-up, it tends to be highly accurate.
If you provide the correct data points, the BDC functionality is spot-on. This type of application lets you enter all the necessary data points for bullet drop compensation and then uses your specific BDC reticle to do all the ballistic math based on the distance to the target that you select. There are several different makers of this type of ballistic application, but my personal favorite is an iPhone version called iStrelok. I purchased the upgraded version, which lets me set-up several different rifle profiles within the application.
Here are some of the more frequently asked questions that I see and am asked in regards to bullet drop compensating rifle scopes:. Nothing as they are both terms used to describe the same type of rifle scope. While a BDC scope and a mil-dot can be similar, they are not the same thing. A BDC riflescope is equipped with a reticle or turret that offers built-in bullet drop calculations. The more common type of BDC operation is done via a reticle.
A mil-dot scope is a scope that is equipped with a mil-dot reticle. A mil-dot reticle has mil-dots all along the vertical and horizontal posts of the reticle. Most BDC reticles only allow for bullet drop adjustments, while a mil-dot reticle allows for bullet drop adjustments as well as left or right adjustments for wind drift. If the shooter sets up all the necessary BDC data points correctly and accurately, BDC-based rifle scopes can be extremely accurate.
But, if properly configured, a BDC reticle or BDC turret can offer excellent accuracy in both the field and on the range. Although Nikon is no longer producing rifle scopes, they use to offer several rifle scopes models that were equipped with different styles of BDC reticles.
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