Best quality sights for long range? That actually is decent. Hard time finding one I like just throw some recommendations out. I’m practicing more in my long range shots rather than close range at the moment
Long Range Optics
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If you stick around here for a bit, you may find that most won't think that shooting 1000+ yards is unfathomable in the least.
What rifle are you putting it on?
EDIT: Here's a long-running thread on some of the members' longer-range rifles. https://carolinafirearmsforum.com/index.php?threads/precision-rifle-picture-thread.475/
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Sightron makes good glass for the money. SIII 8-32X50 good for general 1000yd shooting. Step up from there to their PLR scopes and from there to their SV scopes. 10-50x60 for benchrest type shooting. Double the price and you are into Nightforce NXS scopes or their Competition model. I have all the above.
Damn nice rifle, from what I've heard. $2K is 'budget glass' compared to the rifle, lol. .408 or .375? I never tried one, but have a .375 cartridge floating around here somewhere - impressive looking.
I was once told by an instructor at a sniper school, "After this, you'all be going to run out and build precision rifles.....when it comes to glass, gather every dime you have - and borrow some more."
Chuckman
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Yeah, I know. That gets into unobtainium categories.
Check out SWFA website (as well as their optic). They have a couple Burris 3.3-18x50 XTRs demo models on sale:
Riflescopes - Used & Demo - SWFA Outdoors
For a bit north of your price point they have a Schmidt & Bender, too, as well as Valdata.
Eurooptics has a Vortex Razor 3-18x50 for a bit above your price, too. Sport Optics has some pretty good deals, too. Check out Leupold, and they have Nightforce for $1,290.
I have shot that rifle to 2500 yards with the CheyTac guys in Idaho using a NF 5.5-22 NXS. This was back around 2009 so plenty of other options for glass now. You wanting a FFP or SFP scope?
Chuckman
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Yes, which is why I said "That said, $1,200 can purchase decent glass; this isn't the 90s and you have choices." The optics market has come a long way.
tdovea10
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Not gonna lie, didn’t even see your comment. That wasn’t directed at you lol. I had a 6GT built and back when I asked for optics recommendations people told me “if the rifle was 3K you better spend at least 3K”. Yeah effing right lol
Nightforce makes a tough scope. The NX8 and ACTAR series uses the ED glass, and it's impressive. Their other product lines are also excellent, but without the ED glass.
Leupold Mark 5 is also a nice scope with great glass.
If you ever go past 1000 yards, consider a scope with a 34 or 35mm tube. They will have more elevation to stretch it out if you desire.
Leupold Mark 5 is also a nice scope with great glass.
If you ever go past 1000 yards, consider a scope with a 34 or 35mm tube. They will have more elevation to stretch it out if you desire.
@gr8fuldoug can probably help.
Yes. LOL Unless building a spec M40A1 then no.
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Chuckman
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I would love to have that optic, on that rifle. That is a bucket list rifle for me.
There is a guy on here selling a Leupold Mk IV M4 10x which was the replacement to this (or one of the replacements), I'd take that scope, too.
Don’t think the Leupold was a replacement for the Marines. I know the Army used them on the M24. I thought Marines went from this to the Premier Reticles/S&B scope but might be wrong.
Chuckman
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On the DMR SAM-R we used both the 10x and the 3-10 (both Leupold). The Scout-Sniper community used Leupold 10x for a bit but did move on to S&B. I think they also have some Nightforces in inventory as well, but now I might be misremembering. That was then, and I have been out a hot minute.
Edited to add, I just found this article from 2018 about NF:
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This is the scope chosen for the newest Marine Corps sniper rifle
Marine snipers could have them in their inventory as soon as June.
www.marinecorpstimes.com
And see a 2022 article talking about "upgraded optics."
Marine Corps Snipers Test New Rifle
Marine Corps snipers will soon be equipped with a longer-range, more versatile rifle designed to increase lethality and establish threat overmatch on the battlefield in support of Force Design 2030.
www.marines.mil
Anything else I see merely says "caliber agnostic precision day optic" for the new Mk22 rifle, and the Wiki page shows the M40A5 with the S&B 3-12.
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Yeah for the DMR possibly but was talking more about the earlier ones mid 2000s as I remember the swap over from the MSTs and the sale of them and transfer to the Premier S&B but that was during the M40A1 and transitioning to the A3 time frame.
Having owned those Leupolds I wouldn’t take either over the scopes available today unless needed for a spec rifle.
Having owned those Leupolds I wouldn’t take either over the scopes available today unless needed for a spec rifle.
Chuckman
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Definitely better on the market (NF, S&B). I just want them for nostalgia purposes on a clone build, either an older M40 or a SAM-R.
On the DMR SAM-R we used both the 10x and the 3-10 (both Leupold). The Scout-Sniper community used Leupold 10x for a bit but did move on to S&B. I think they also have some Nightforces in inventory as well, but now I might be misremembering. That was then, and I have been out a hot minute.
Edited to add, I just found this article from 2018 about NF:
This is the scope chosen for the newest Marine Corps sniper rifle
Marine snipers could have them in their inventory as soon as June.
And see a 2022 article talking about "upgraded optics."
Marine Corps Snipers Test New Rifle
Marine Corps snipers will soon be equipped with a longer-range, more versatile rifle designed to increase lethality and establish threat overmatch on the battlefield in support of Force Design 2030.www.marines.mil
Anything else I see merely says "caliber agnostic precision day optic" for the new Mk22 rifle, and the Wiki page shows the M40A5 with the S&B 3-12.
Calling an M40A6 a 'legacy' rifle makes me feel old......
Machined from steel instead of aluminum!
Chuckman
Senior Member
Yeah, you could definitely bludgeon someone with it....