Choosing the Right Optic

By Keith Wood

Choosing a firearm can be a complicated process, but a buyer shouldn’t discount a decision that can often rank even higher on the importance scale — choosing the correct optic to accompany that firearm.

The riflescope is often the most important component in the shooting equation. There’s a saying that it is better to spend one’s budget on the scope and use what’s left to buy the rifle. I can’t find fault with that mindset.

Not only is choosing a quality scope important, but selecting the right optic for the task at hand can mean the difference between success and failure.

Before we get into choosing the correct scope, let us define what a riflescope is and what we want it to do.

Above all, a riflescope is a sight — a means for aiming the rifle to hit an intended target. If a scope fails as a sight, nothing else matters.

A scope is not an observation device. We don’t use scopes to locate targets or to determine whether a game animal is worthy of pursuit. Not only is using a riflescope for observation dangerous (we are pointing the rifle at everything we observe, including things/people that we shouldn’t be pointing guns at), but …Read the Rest

Source:: Guns and Ammo