With the exception of ranging with the reticle or hold-over shooting, this is not accurate. Your implication that custom turrets (your apparent beef with Leupold and their fanboi's) are inferior to adapting to environmental changes is faulty - there's functionally no difference in dialing with a custom turret or a standard turret.
never said there was a functional different, mechanically and even solutionwise. it's very similar. what im saying is its limiting.
Ballistic matched turrets are nothing more than a range card wrapped around your turret -
Thats excatly what im talking about. They are a range card built for one particular density of air. Are you suppose to get a bunch of them for every scenario? Using this method IS DIFFERENTTTTTT. To be honest yes, im personally biased because im stuck in my ways, but still, how many of the best of the best in the world of long range shooters have you heard of use a huskemaw. In the hunting world...maybe a few but im just saying.
ou're dialing for shots, you're dialing for shots, so the appearance of the crosshair is largely irrelevant EXCEPT for ranging with the reticle.
Maybe for you. However using the reticle for field firing correction is a primary function of what I use a mil/moa/tmr/horus whatever for.
For making THE shot, no not relevant. For the hours and days and weeks getting dope on the range. at ranges out past 1760y...yes a reticle is going to help with identifing your correction value for your misses faster while walking yourself on target. Same thing at close range work. rezeroing a rifle, shoot once, use the reticle, traverse what i saw in the reticle, fine tune, verify done. on to calibration. there mover targets too, for that type of holdover...no one dials for that..half the time you dont have the time.
I can understand that many folks don't know how to run their gear, so they'll not realize that the hornady.com trajectory they punched on their phone (used to be the trajectory printed on the box) might not match their actual trajectory in their rifle, let alone their current location trajectory. If a guy doesn't actually know their trajectory, or how to manage it, and is printing/publishing a new range card for every environmental condition they shoot, instead of simply utilizing their base trajectory and making adjustments according to environmental changes, then they might be mentally crippled by having ONLY their base trajectory engraved into their turrets. But inexperienced shooters are inexperienced shooters - what do you expect?
I would expect them to learn, and to come at people properly. Pssh guarantee people, including some of the mods around here wouldnt be such talkers in real life, but hey its the internet. Thats why i put so little effort into my points, and run on sentences and not going back and proofing reading anything. No one on here is my people, i could care less if the OP shoots a barska on a custom rem 700 barlein special blah blah .338 edge. Not my gun not my problem. But in the event they take my point, do a little digging and agree with what im talking about, then id say, glad i could help.
Dropping in a milling reticle won't change the fact a guy doesn't know how to correct their trajectory for environmental conditions.
no but they can correct their fire.
Ballistic turrets are not unique to Leupold, either.
Never said they were. if you want me to say i hate the other scopes with ballistic turrets. i do. the nikons, prostaffs, huskemaws, um leupold scopes in general, certain burris scopes. My opinion aint going to hurt their sales or dissuade people from buying their products.