I want tο dο ѕοmе descent range target shooting аnd really improve mу accuracy wіth mу 5.56mm ar15. I hаνе a 16″ barrel. Whаt scopes ѕhουld I bе looking аt fοr ranges between 150-300 yards (οr more)? thanks!
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I’d just go to Wal-Mart and buy the cheapest 4-12 x 40mm I could find. The scope will be more accurate than 99% of shooters can be.
Anything Leupold They are awesome scopes and I have not missed anything since I have had them on my gun
ben i use this ,, as a general rule,, cost of gun cost of optics,,,,,,,yes a leuopld there the best for you $$$$
If you are planning on using it for competition I would go with a higher end scope, like a Leapold or Trijicon. If you just want to use it for plinking i would go with a nikon or tasco, both are pretty good scopes for the price.
When it comes to “Glass” or Optics, you can easily tie up the same amount of money in one as you got in your rifle. . . or more. Now me personally, I’m not all that great with irons past 100yrds. So I probably use a little more magnification than the average person. Anyhow, I use a Vortex Viper 6. 5-20×50 on my varmint DPMS. It sat me back 400. 00 but it works great out to 500yrds. The only draw back I recon is all my ARs are 16 inches, so this scope looks a little big. I’m also using a Larue scope mount which ran me about 200. 00 but it’s worth every penny. I can pop the scope on and off without loosing my zero. This is really nice when it comes to cleaning.
The scope I’m using.
http://www. vortexoptics. com/category/riflescopes
its only good for 100 yards max
get a 3006 and you can kill a deer at 1,000 yards
A Leupold Mark AR would work excellent for this. If you get the 3-9×40 it will even have a bullet drop compensator that is calibrated for 5. 56/. 223. It will allow you to use the exact holdover for the range that you are shooting at. Price? Glad you asked: $300. -$350.
Short answer, almost any with magnification between 4-14. Except Leupold.
My Choice would be an EOTech with a 4X magnifier or a Meopta Meostar 1-4×22. . . . oh and Leupold sucks.
Long answer – If your intended use is at a range during daylight hours you have many options.
Jake’s Scope 101-
Light is reflected off of an object which travels to our eyes by which we can see that object. That light is information about that object.
Magnification or Power – Magnification makes your target look bigger, period. It takes the information and makes it look bigger (think increasing the font on your computer but it doesn’t effect the resolution). Variable magnification can be useful if your targets stay still for long periods of time and appear at different distances. The more magnification you have the more your field of view is reduced.
Objective Lens Size – Bigger lens = Wider Picture. Bigger is not necessarily better. The size of the objective lens effectively only gives you a wider field of view. If you want to scan a larger area or this may help. It does not make a brighter picture, it does not “gather light”. People who believe that are misinformed and have been brainwashed and probably really like Leupold scopes and want huge front lenses. The image that is seen through a scope is light that is traveling from your target to your eye. A bigger objective lens technically lets in more light but that light is information coming from around your target, basically its just the a larger view, not brighter. The only way to have the information from your target send more light through your scope is to go shine a light on your target so that it reflects more light. What you really want is more of the light to make it through your scope and reach your eye. See Clarity.
Clarity- the most important quality. When you have a very clear picture magnification is not as important to make out details. When magnification is not as important you don’t need a ginormous field of view. A clear picture of your target comes two things, purity of the glass and quality of the polishing.
The purity of the glass effects the image significanlty. Pure clear glass will have less diffraction allowing more light to pass through which is more information eg. details, shadows, color, egdes, contours, lines on a paper target, fear in the eyes of your enemy etc.
Once a certain quality of glass is chosen the scope companies make decisions on have much time and effort they will spend on polishing this glass. Lenses can be polished to different levels and also the area of the lens polished can be different. A cheap scope will have an adequate polish job on the very center of the lens. This becomes evident when you have to hunt around for the “sweet spot” so that you can see through the scope, and you have to get it just right to see clearly through it. A high quality scope will “pop” the image into view when you look through it and you have some wiggle room behind the scope where the target can still be seen. This occurs because all of the lenses in the scope are polished over the entire area of the lens.
DIfferent manufactures have different levels of scopes, equates to different qualities and are priced accordingly. They want your money and will rely on your ignorance to help them get it.
Tube SIze, Exit Pupil,Eye Relief are all in my Optics 202 spiel.
There is something to be said for the quality of the construction of the housing and focusing systems but basically you get what you pay for there.
My opinion, Leupold Sucks, they are riding on their name and make turds that you can see through.
That being said I must tell you that I do not work for any optics companies, I have my opinion based on a wide variety of experiences and comparisons. I currently own optics made by Zeiss, Swarovski, Meopta, and Nikon. Including riflescopes, binoculars and camera lenses. Zeiss is the best of the lot and the most expensive (weird huh?). I would like to have US Optics scope but haven’t had a chance to look through one yet to see if they are worth the $$$$$.
Now specifically for your case (5. 56 through a 16″ barrel), I would get an EOTech with a 4x magnifier and let that AR do what is does. A 16″ AR and an EOTech are a match made in semiautomatic heaven. The 4X magnifier will get out to 150 yds easy. The ability to flip it out of the way and blast with 0 magnification is tits. Leave the 300 yds alone for now. My reasoning is this, Ballistics on the 5. 56 that you find where done with a 20″ barrel so your velocities and bullet drop will be different. 300 yd shots in that rig from a non-expert might become discouraging. I would be willing to bet that most of your shots will be 100 yds or less and a larger scope would be cumbersome. Once you are stacking holes at 100 you will probably want a longer, match grade barrel and or a different caliber, when all that occurs a different scope would be m
trijicon acog is made for the AR. There are lower priced copies if you can’t afford one. With one of these you can shoot out to 600 meters or more.
Forget the cheapo route.