rmorgansd from United States, CA Public Profile

I put this scope on a Smith and Wesson M&P10 .308 with the Magpul options. I know it's more of an entry rifle and not a sniper rifle, and this scope is a bit of a luxury. The guys I was shooting with that day were showing off their Remington .308s and telling me if I wanted to hit anything at distance I'd need a more accurate rifle. Mounting it was fairly easy, at first I thought I needed a base but the scope bolted right on to the stock rail with its supplied hardware. On this otherwise stock rifle the scope sits so low over the top of the barrel that the included lens caps can't be used. I'll eventually need to elevate the scope a bit with some other attachment. After reading other reviews I expected the scope to be some huge thing but it's really not that much bigger than other scopes. It looks great on the rifle.

As for programming, I started off using Federal 149 grain XM80CL standard NATO rounds. There wasn't a direct cross in their chart for them but I chose something that was 147 grain and within 50fps of the muzzle velocity for the BC and put that in. While programming I discovered an error in their instructions. After selecting all the parameters for the round the instructions say to press the "forward" arrow button to accept the values and resume normal mode. That is incorrect. You need to press the "BACK' arrow button to save and exit programming mode. The quick start guide has it correct.

I sighted in the scope at 100 yards with about 10 shots. Th