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Hi all,

I need some advise..

I had a accident a few weeks ago and one of my scopes took a tumble and broke. So currently I have a MTC Genesis 5-20×50 on my 223 and an old Nikkon Sterling Game King on my 308. Now the MTC and Nikkon are good scopes for the money but now that I've been reloading a while my groups are becoming consistently better at longer distances, so I want to shoot longer distances up to 1000 yards. So I'm thinking it's time to get better glass however with he kids, family and other life stuff I cant really justify buying two scopes but could one very good scope.

So what do you folks think, should I get one medium priced scope per rifle or one very good scope, mount it on QD rings and swap between the two rifles?

Cheers..

I think the problem you'd have with swapping one scope between two rifles
would be having to re-zero each time it's swapped, even more so as the rifles are different calibres etc.

Even if you swapped a scope between two identical rifles I doubt poi/poa would be the same on each rifle with one scope, especially at 1000 yards!.

In all fareness a mount that will hold that sort of accuracy aint going to be cheap.

2 scopes is probably the route you will end up going down.

Shooting accurately out to 1000 is a bit of a game changer anyway

I struggle using one scope on one gun at a 1000!

How about two decent scopes bought secondhand? There are some real bargains to be had with quality optics on the "used" market.