Selecting a Scope for HFT - lessons learned

mmcaleer said:

....You needed to learn to judge yardage with practice. In archery, if you wanted to shoot known distances, you would shoot field archery.

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five shots out to 80 yards from sun inside deep in a dark corner on 15 degree elevation up hill from kneeling - because a branch was there somewhere up breaking the clearance ... yeah I remember those days.

Open is a division in FT and they range with their scopes just like in Hunter, except Hunter is restricted to 16x or less, but Open you can use any magnification to range with.

In the non AAFTA, undivision, we can use a LRF, which is what I do.

I don't have time right now to go into expressing my opinion about hunting and range finding.

mmcaleer said:

I assume it is meant to be a hunting scenario. Why it is named HFT. The squirrel doesn’t yell “I AM 36 YARDS AWAY FROM YOU. USE A 1/2 MOA”. You could shoot Open class and use your rangefinder. I used to shoot 3D archery and it was the same; unknown yardages. But we couldn’t use anything to range. You needed to learn to judge yardage with practice. In archery, if you wanted to shoot known distances, you would shoot field archery.

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There's a thing called PBR which is where the trajectory is the flatest. For example with my 30 yard zero I could aim from 20 yards to 40 yards and still hit the brain of a squirrel if hunting them. A little closer and farther if chest shots.

I have eye problems so ranging with a scope doesn't work the best for me like in times past. Times when I won state matches.

It's just a pet peeve of mine because I like to know the exact distance rather than guessing it. So other than PBR I'd prefer using a LRF.

We have a UFT match here in AZ where distances are given and I enjoy it a tad more than FT. Why is because the KZ's sizes are more difficult for the distances so there is plenty of challenge.