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Originally Posted by Positrac
I’ve got a nice little Leupold vx-II 3-9x33mm ultralight scope that I’ll be putting on my new Savage 110 Storm lightweight in .308. I don’t have any experience with the Leupold CDS turrets but would it make any sense to have one installed by Korth on a compact rifle scope like this? Does the small 33mm bell take away from the usefulness of the dial?
The bare rifle is 5-1/2 pounds and the scope is 9oz. I have Talleys coming for it so all in the scoped rifle will come in under 6-1/2 pounds. My goal was to put together a lightweight rifle for all kinds of hunting that doesn’t break the bank.
I’d like to have the option to shoot out to 500 yards and while that is still possible without a CDS turret having the option to dial up for distance would be nice. I’m just not sure it makes any sense with this scope.
Please educate me on the topic....
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they should be able to put the new smaller 1 revolution cds-zl turret on it, they just did a fxII 6x36 for me with that turret and in the case of that scope i ended up getting 1.2 moa per 4 clicks(closer to 1/3 moa per click), so even with super short barrel (16.1")6.5 Grendel on the ruger american ranch it gave me 600 yards in one rotation with only 2386 fps launch...and the same turret on a vx3i 4.5-14x40 (30mm side focus) on my cz 527 6.5 Grendel gave me the same distance with on 1 moa per four clicks(1/4 moa) and it does 2605 fps and got me the same 600 yards. Both with 200 yard zero's.
Get the cds-zl, zl = zero lock, so the button is popped out on the zero and it doesn't move, you have to push the button down to start dialing, and you get 14.8 moa out of it before it quites turning. So you can't lose zero or get out of rotation or accidentally roll it off zero, and going back to zero you can do with eye closed by feel alone.
I typically go wide duplex reticle when in there if that's not already in the scope, it's the leupold reticle to have for bulk of hunting situations.
So you'll easily dial up to 500 plus in one rotation, just have to confirm your drops and that you're getting 1/4 moa per click or .3 moa per click. Note: i did a standard 7/8's target knob on a fxII 4x33 and it too ended up .3 moa per click...not sure why on the fixed powers that's the case but it works to a hunter benefit for getting a bit more range out of a rotation.
ps if you were to ever sell that scope just pm me ok, that's a perfect find for that set up, the turret will be the icing on the cake, sweet set up
odd figuring out the moa per click confusion first time to the range and looking at typical 1/4 moa chart, you can usually get on steel no sweat all the way out, .3 moa per click doesn't sound like much but will show your rig as either super fast or super high bc as it takes quite a few less clicks to get to 500 etc., so you've got a head start and can save a little ammo
also, my first sheep set up many years ago was a tikka stainless with talleys and 3-9x33 ul with a standard 7/8's target knob installed and kenton industries speed dial turret, that rig was deadly and very lightweight, dialed out to past 700 yards in one rotation, so the 3-9x33 ul is a great ultralight scope that can do it all