Hello everyone! I'm new to the Ruger Forum, however, as you can guess a newly acquired Ruger and Optic brought me here. For the past two years my son and I have been looking to expanding our horizons to shooting distance and learning about the marvels of ballistics.
My wife decided to surprise me, and took advantage of the sale and financing at BassPro and picked up a RPR .308 and mounted a Vortex Diamondback Tactical FFP scope 6-24x50. She had explained that we'd be shooting at a range of 200-300 yards a majority of the time but would like to move it out to possibly 600 in the future. I've always liked Vortex reputation for service and warranty. A coworkers house burned down, after he found the damaged guns, he reached out to Vortex and they replaced all of his scopes without a question. Therefore, she explained I liked their optics and this was recommended.
Yesterday, we took it out for the first time @ 200 yards. The first thing I noticed on the scope was at 6-12x the image was awesome and clear from any point in the optic. Beyond that it "whited out" and had crescent images at different positions until after hunting for some time a clear spot could be found. After a few shots two other individuals shot the gun and experienced the same issue.
My questions..I know this happens at higher modifications and the scope has a long eye relief, but at the upper limit it didn't matter what your distance from the scope was. Now at 6-12x I could be 5-6" and it was beautiful. When at 200yrds the power seemed to have to be all the way up to 24x to see the bullseye clearly, when you could find it. Is there a scope out there that can be magnified without the white out effect? Is the scope the proper magnification for the distance we'd be shooting? other recommendations? I don't wanna kill the bank but maybe up to $700-800. I still have time to return this one to BPS and upgrade if needed. I've only ever shot with iron sights and/or red dot, so this is gonna be a learning curve.
Sorry for the lengthy first post but I welcome opinions on anything to help out. I've watched so may Youtube videos today that i'm going crazy. Thank you!
My wife decided to surprise me, and took advantage of the sale and financing at BassPro and picked up a RPR .308 and mounted a Vortex Diamondback Tactical FFP scope 6-24x50. She had explained that we'd be shooting at a range of 200-300 yards a majority of the time but would like to move it out to possibly 600 in the future. I've always liked Vortex reputation for service and warranty. A coworkers house burned down, after he found the damaged guns, he reached out to Vortex and they replaced all of his scopes without a question. Therefore, she explained I liked their optics and this was recommended.
Yesterday, we took it out for the first time @ 200 yards. The first thing I noticed on the scope was at 6-12x the image was awesome and clear from any point in the optic. Beyond that it "whited out" and had crescent images at different positions until after hunting for some time a clear spot could be found. After a few shots two other individuals shot the gun and experienced the same issue.
My questions..I know this happens at higher modifications and the scope has a long eye relief, but at the upper limit it didn't matter what your distance from the scope was. Now at 6-12x I could be 5-6" and it was beautiful. When at 200yrds the power seemed to have to be all the way up to 24x to see the bullseye clearly, when you could find it. Is there a scope out there that can be magnified without the white out effect? Is the scope the proper magnification for the distance we'd be shooting? other recommendations? I don't wanna kill the bank but maybe up to $700-800. I still have time to return this one to BPS and upgrade if needed. I've only ever shot with iron sights and/or red dot, so this is gonna be a learning curve.
Sorry for the lengthy first post but I welcome opinions on anything to help out. I've watched so may Youtube videos today that i'm going crazy. Thank you!