Thanks 1858 for this explanation or wise words shall I say.. LOL. Well I respect both Maverick and you. I know Maverick says not to listen to anything of you guys say, but I just don't have enough time to spend more months researching about scopes before I buy one. I have spent the last few months reading people's opiions and learning the basic about scopes and I am finally ready to make my decision. I think what you have said sounds good and I think I will then revert back to my original plan of going with the Zeiss 6-20 Z-1000 reticle
.. Yeah I know some think I am rushing into it, but you can only spend so long researching about a target scope. The scope does have lifetime transferrable warranty, so its not like I will lose everything I put into it if I deceide to sell it and go somewhere else.
The Z-1000 I admit looks real fancy. But, I didn't want nice and tacti-coolish rectical to be all that would make me purchase the scope. I want one that I will be able to get the most use out of and will have the most functioniality and will help in improving my target skills. I guess from what you said and since you have a lot of target experience, the Z-1000 will be a great reticle for my DPMS LR-308. I think I would love to learn to make such a nice reticle work for different applications. I guess if I just cannot get good groups with this reticle, I will sell it and exchange it for something else.
1858, Can I ask you how do you think the Z-1000 would perform if I decided to use it on my AR-15s? I would do most my target shooting with the LR-308, but I do plan on also wanting to use the scope sometimes on my AR-15. Would the Z-1000 reticle make shooting with a .223/5.56 caliber impossible or very difficult? I know the holdover features are gauged for the .308.
I noticed you were displayhing some sort of software or program that calculates reticle analysis. I don't know if it is necessary to have this software to accurately gauge or dial in my scope to its target. Where do you get this software and can you explain something more about its purpose? Being a newbie, should I even bother to use such a program? I would like to know that I can make the Z-1000 work for me without having to spend lot of money on fancy gizmos or software.
Maverick, I am taking in what you said too. Its a hard choice, cause i talk to 15 differnet people and get 15 different opinoins; it seems only seldomly do they coincide. I am really going to have to ponder this. I hope if I get the Z-1000 I won't regret it. I know one guy said it was so bad he couldn't shoot targets with it. Maybe, he was just use to a duplex and couldn't keep his mind focused on the center versus all the other data on the reticle. I am speculating, but I hope it will work out for me.