Re: I just ordered a long range varmint control to
[re: egon]
07/08/08 10:09 AM
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Egon, I have often admired the Mini 14 and could have bought one at any time but I just never got around to it. There was something to be said for the .223 and that was easy cheap ammo availability but now it is a bit short in supply, I am told, due to ongoing military consumption.
The .338 is definitely a deer/elk/moose stopper (will take the wind out of the typical anti-social persons sails too.)
Unless you are just supremely blessed with slow aging eyes you would do better with optical sights, even if only a no magnification reflex sight that is like the HUD on a fighter aircraft.
Gone forever are the days when I could do really well with iron sights. I have a set of rings that have oval supports under the scope. If you reposition your "cheek weld" you can look through the rings and use the iron sights. When I got that scope and those rings I could actually do OK with the iron sights but now they are more of a curiosity except if a shot is presented at such close range as to make the scope useless. Partially blurry iron sights are better than a totally blurry scope because the target is way too close.
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