paprpnchr
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Longtime skeet and trap shooter new to the world of sako rifles. Have an 85 Hunter in Rem 260 and am looking at scopes for the first time in a long time... believe me I'm no spring chicken.
I'm looking at Zeiss and Meopta and at present I'm leaning to the Meopta Meostar R1 3-10x50 v. the Zeiss Conquest 3-9x50. I realize that beauty is often in the eye of the beholder (or owner) so I thought I'd ask those having these two scopes for their experience and satisfaction with them. My use will be for upland hunting (deer etc. in the mostly wooded environments) so high mags aren't a necessity, while my old eyes need all the help they can get as far as brightness and light transmission goes, hence the 50mm. Frankly I think a smaller size looks better from a balance POV. I've handled a lot of scopes narrowing it down to these two and the Meoptas have a nice quality feel about them. Don't get me wrong, the Conquest is a beautifully finished scope but frankly the plastic knobs are a bit of a turnoff.
Also, I've never used the Sako mounting system before and after reading prior posts and looking over the engineering of the system (which I think is excellent) and have opted for them. But I do have a question. While I have read all I could find I cant recall having seen anything on boresighting a scope without using the scope adjustments. Is one supposed to shim...I also haven't seen comments on that so I don't know. I would rather not use up the scope windage adjustments and would like to get sighted in and retain as much scope adjustment as possible.
I'm looking at Zeiss and Meopta and at present I'm leaning to the Meopta Meostar R1 3-10x50 v. the Zeiss Conquest 3-9x50. I realize that beauty is often in the eye of the beholder (or owner) so I thought I'd ask those having these two scopes for their experience and satisfaction with them. My use will be for upland hunting (deer etc. in the mostly wooded environments) so high mags aren't a necessity, while my old eyes need all the help they can get as far as brightness and light transmission goes, hence the 50mm. Frankly I think a smaller size looks better from a balance POV. I've handled a lot of scopes narrowing it down to these two and the Meoptas have a nice quality feel about them. Don't get me wrong, the Conquest is a beautifully finished scope but frankly the plastic knobs are a bit of a turnoff.
Also, I've never used the Sako mounting system before and after reading prior posts and looking over the engineering of the system (which I think is excellent) and have opted for them. But I do have a question. While I have read all I could find I cant recall having seen anything on boresighting a scope without using the scope adjustments. Is one supposed to shim...I also haven't seen comments on that so I don't know. I would rather not use up the scope windage adjustments and would like to get sighted in and retain as much scope adjustment as possible.