"zebra"
The importance of FFP has less to do with the distances you are shooting at and more to do with the trajectory and how you correct for it.
Air guns have very steep trajectories compared to powder burners which means that, even inside 100 yards, there will be a significant drop you need to correct for.
If you plan to use your reticle for holdovers then FFP is a huge help. I actually think it's more helpful to air gun shooters than most firearm shooters with the exception of long range marksman.
If you are a benchrest shooter with time to dial in your corrections then it's less of an issue but most people here seem to use mil dot reticles.
I managed with SFP before but now that I have gotten used to an FFP scope, I find it hard to get excited about going back to SFP.
Just memorizing one set of corrections instead of one per power setting has made shooting so much more enjoyable. It has certainly made me more accurate because I sucked with corrections on my SFP scopes.
thx zebra, that helps some
i am all about wanting to keep things simple
see if my thought process below is correct / in keeping with what you have written, and moving me towards my goals at the bottom
INdecisions.,
INdecisions.
so i was NEARLY sold on the optisan EVX F1, which i understand should be available stateside in about 3 weeks,
my only hesitation on the optisan is the 4.8 mil / rotation, WHY couldn't they have made it a smooth FIVE mil / rotation, that would make it a lot easier to keep track of where one is, when dialing.
then i was talking to Jeff, at MTC optics u.s., and started to become more and more interested in the SFP MTC viper pro.
i became intrigued with the customizable turret tape on the viper pro, since, (if i understand correctly) once the tape is set up, you simply dial the distance after ranging it, and hold dead on, REGARDLESS of the magnification. even simpler than holding over with FFP (and FAR simpler than holding over with calculations (to correct for magnification differences) in SFP).
when shooting from bench rest with my centerfire mentioned above,
i do not dial, but hold over, and using strelock pro, easily move from 200 to 400 to 600 to 638 yards (at 800 yards, the earth berm backing the targets is covered with grass, and i can't see my misses, so i need a spotter at 800 yards)
anyways, my air rifle goal, alluded to above, is :
a) to be able to drill 5-10 pellets into single hole at 10 to 50 (or more) yards from a bench rest, so dialing in would seem to be good here, considering the fixed shooting distance.
and
b) to be able to be out in the woods, and easily take small game from 10 to 100 yards, using perhaps a shooting stick or bipod, but be able to quickly be ready and on target, at whatever distance that squirrel may appear.
seems like the viper pro may be the best of both worlds.
turret tape set up in yardages
or
dial back to 10x, and be able to range using mil dots, and hold-over without calculations (to correct for magnification)
maybe a little more work to set up at first, but less work after
