Had decided to get the Leopold 6X24X50 scope for my Weatherby .338-378. Was talking about shooting to a young GI at the Hotel in Anchorage this week, he is a marine Scout Sniper. We went to the range at Fort Richardson, where he let me shoot his personal gun. A remington 700 in .338 Rem Ultra Mag with a Night Force 3.5X15X50. That scope was beat up, scratched, looked hard used, he told me he had taken it to Afganistan once and to Iraq twice. He used it on his military rifle when over there. Thought I had wanted a scope with mil dots, he told me I did not, and he would show me later why. He told me at 800 yards I could not see the sillouite we were shooting at with a mil dot, the mil dot would compleatly cover the target. The NPR-2 reticle on the Night Force did not. And he took a Leopold to the range also for comparison. The Night Force was brighter.
After shooting at the range we went to the Sportsman's Warehouse there in Anchorage. The clerks there let us take both the Leopold and Night Force to the front door, (they accompanied us of course) where we could compare clearity and reticles at long ranges. We looked at a man pumping gas out at 800 to 900 yards away with the Leopold, Night Force, and a Burris with Mil Dots. The Mil dot covered the man compleately.
Ended up, I bought the Night Force 3.5X15X50. Now for the mounting. My Sniper friend advised me not to use Leopold rings. The recoil on the .338-378 is too harsh for them, and they snap off.
