Late to the precision-shooting game, this company scrambled to produce a 34mm, first-plane milling scope, which because of the precision components required by precision shooters, is priced well above $1,500. But it’s the influence of these shooters that is moving the market.Ī representative of one scope company told me that he gets more requests for “MIL/MIL” scopes-riflescopes that have both turrets and reticle tuned to milliradian values, than for any other configuration, including the venerable old 3-9×42. It says a lot about the ascendance of practical shooting games that now these companies’ flagship products are precision scopes built on hulking 34mm tubes with first-plane reticles that only a handful of shooters will ever use as intended. Not many years ago, these optics companies would pour those resources into a flagship binocular or spotting scope, or into a riflescope with super-premium glass that might pair with an heirloom rifle. But to appreciate how deeply the precision-rifle movement has penetrated the optics industry, consider all the resources firms are pouring into riflescopes that really have only one job, to help shooters engage steel targets at extremely long ranges. The explosion of participation in long-range target shooting has spawned an entirely new category of riflescope.
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