Spotting scope

[RobinC]

You will need a very good quality scope with at least a 60 mm objective lens to see small holes at any thing over 100 mt, and its more about the quality of the optics than the magnification.

Don't know where you shoot, but at Bisley there are electronic targets, or the TR ones with markers will have an orange disc which are easily seen with most scopes.

We shoot ISSF 300 mt at Bisley with the 300 Metre Target Club, and we have all electronic targets, the only time we use a scope is for wind mirage reading.

Have Fun
Robin

[PhatMan]

karakal,

It also depends on the conditions - hazy, mirage ridden days, tend to make it very difficult to see even .45 calibre holes at 300m, even if you have excellent optics.

Are you shooting on a 'proper' range (gallery/field firing), or on a piece of land with 'impromptu' targets ?

Some of the Serials at the Lydd & Hythe ranges are luckily placed so that the bullet holes in the targets are backlit at certain times of the day, which helps a lot.

If you are on a gallery range, then the butts crew can put in a marker disk - if you are on a field firing area, then it would be most challenging to spot the shot holes.

I use the optical tube assembly from a Meade ETX-90 astronomical telescope, and can see .22 bullet holes at 300m under very good conditions.

However, slight, gusty wind buffets the scope sufficiently to make the image shudder enough to make the spotting difficult.

Have fun & a good weekend

Best regards

Russ