"Top 3 In 5" Favorite Riflescopes
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
This is the second of a new podcast element: fast-paced, fact-filled five-minute episodes showcasing three top backcountry hunting tools, tricks or techniques. We're calling them the "Top 3 In 5" bonus episodes.
Spotlighted here are three of our all-time favorite lightweight hunting scopes. They span a price range of $500 to $1,650, and all are light enough to pack up mountains, are feature-filled so they'll hunt as hard and as far as you can, and are of premium quality, so they provide great durability, light transmission, image clarity, color purity, and so on.
Also soon to come: Boots, packs, knives, elk cartridges, elk calls, multitools, tents, bear guns, movies, and more! These "Top 3 In 5" minute episodes will drop as frequently as we have time during this busy hunting season, and by Christmas will be a weekly Tuesday-morning addition to the podcast's regular schedule. ENJOY!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you could have just one rifle scope to hunt with for the rest of your life, what would it be? |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Backcountry Hunting Podcasts Top Three in Five. |
| 0:11.0 | A rapid-fire five minute episode today is on three of the best scopes available. |
| 0:17.0 | All are built properly with premium glass. |
| 0:20.0 | All are light enough to pack up gnarly mountains. |
| 0:22.9 | All feature proven reliability. |
| 0:25.1 | And importantly, each has the cutting edge features |
| 0:28.6 | that savvy backcountry hunters insist on, |
| 0:31.3 | such as a quality dial-up turret with a zero-stop mechanism. |
| 0:35.8 | Now that we have our criteria established, let's take a look, starting with the lightest |
| 0:40.4 | of these lightweight optical gun sites. This is Leopold's 2.5 to 8 by 32 |
| 0:47.0 | VX3 HD with the CDS ZL turret. That's a custom dial system with a zero locking turret. A |
| 0:56.8 | zero lock is a beautiful thing in the backcountry. Zero stop, equally important. |
| 1:02.4 | This fantastic little scope Zero Stop equally important. |
| 1:03.0 | This fantastic little scope weighs 11.9 ounces. |
| 1:08.0 | It's just three quarters of a pound. |
| 1:10.0 | Comes with a free custom dial from a loophole. |
| 1:12.8 | You send in your ballistics, they send you the turret. |
| 1:15.1 | One inch diameter scope tube limits the upward rotation to about 15 minutes of angle. |
| 1:20.6 | That should get you about 700 yards with most hunting cartridges. |
| 1:24.0 | Prices 499 suggested retail. You'll get up for less at your local dealer |
| 1:29.4 | especially on holiday weekend sales. |
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