What is the best optic for a grendel ??
That's about like asking "what's the best foot wear for a human ?"
Are you climbing a mountain? Are you going on a creek walk? Are you going dancing? Are you male or female?
Before you buy your footwear you need to determine how you will use them!
No different for the optics for your grendel ... how will you use it ?
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When I first got my 6.5G(18) back in early 2016, I was trying to "replace" the Sig762(16) I had sold. When I got the Sig, I was hoping it would be dual purpose, both short distance hunting and long distance target shooting. So I wanted the 6.5G(18) to do the same.
So, for most of the first year I had the 6.5G(18) I used it for hunting/critter control.
And mostly I had a Zeus 100mm 4x 640(60) on it. Here it is side by side with the 5.56(18) (the 5.56 is to the rear) ... I had the same model Zeus Pro on both of them at that point.
Issues with the Zeus were that is was a bit heavy, and the 4x magnification was too much. There were times I was swinging it around trying to see yotes I knew were right near me. They didn't all get away ...
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One night, I was overwatching the chicken coop with the 6.5G(18) on a tripod and a opossum headed in towards the coop ... bang, bang, Down. I decided to keep waiting and watching and within 5m a Coon headed in to the same spot. Maybe he wanted to find out what was going on. Bang, down. These were 70yd shots off the tripod point blank range, though the critters were within 50yds of the coop and despite our electric fence etc. I still worry that critters could get in ... they destroy our neighbors chickens year after year ... three neighbors have lost all their chickens in the last year ... one lost 22 (he says to a coon) 2 months ago. I take my coop defense seriously.
I sold the Zeus Pro about Feb 2017 and briefly tried a Burris xtr2 1.5-8x cq mil scope. Here we are at the 500yd firing point (FP). On Manfrotto M190 tripod with 322rc-2 joystick mount.
That's about like asking "what's the best foot wear for a human ?"
Are you climbing a mountain? Are you going on a creek walk? Are you going dancing? Are you male or female?
Before you buy your footwear you need to determine how you will use them!
No different for the optics for your grendel ... how will you use it ?
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When I first got my 6.5G(18) back in early 2016, I was trying to "replace" the Sig762(16) I had sold. When I got the Sig, I was hoping it would be dual purpose, both short distance hunting and long distance target shooting. So I wanted the 6.5G(18) to do the same.
So, for most of the first year I had the 6.5G(18) I used it for hunting/critter control.
And mostly I had a Zeus 100mm 4x 640(60) on it. Here it is side by side with the 5.56(18) (the 5.56 is to the rear) ... I had the same model Zeus Pro on both of them at that point.
Issues with the Zeus were that is was a bit heavy, and the 4x magnification was too much. There were times I was swinging it around trying to see yotes I knew were right near me. They didn't all get away ...
==
One night, I was overwatching the chicken coop with the 6.5G(18) on a tripod and a opossum headed in towards the coop ... bang, bang, Down. I decided to keep waiting and watching and within 5m a Coon headed in to the same spot. Maybe he wanted to find out what was going on. Bang, down. These were 70yd shots off the tripod point blank range, though the critters were within 50yds of the coop and despite our electric fence etc. I still worry that critters could get in ... they destroy our neighbors chickens year after year ... three neighbors have lost all their chickens in the last year ... one lost 22 (he says to a coon) 2 months ago. I take my coop defense seriously.
I sold the Zeus Pro about Feb 2017 and briefly tried a Burris xtr2 1.5-8x cq mil scope. Here we are at the 500yd firing point (FP). On Manfrotto M190 tripod with 322rc-2 joystick mount.
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