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On the other hand, having to pay between £300-500plus for a better quality item such as a Nikon or Burriswill bring tears to some shooters eyes especiallywhen they have more than one rifle to equip but theydo offer excellent quality and most will come with alifetime guarantee. It’s going to be your wallet thatGALLERY RIFLE& PISTOL NEWSLeft - This type of QR rings are very reliable.Middle -Target turrets are very popular and are a must.Right - Warne rings return to zero and are very good valuefor moneymakes the decision at the end of the day but yougenerally do get what you pay for. Another optionof course if you are on a tighter budget would be asecond-hand scope and you could well end up witha lot more scope for your money, so make sure youcheck out the various shooting forums and sites on theinternet to see what’s available.As I mentioned earlier, you will find that a telescopicsight won’t always be the best option for some of theGR disciplines, whatever its magnification range andthese include matches like the Bianchi, the BisleySpeed Steels, 3 gun matches and Steel Challengefalling plate type matches.would produce much better results for most shootersas opposed to using a 2 – 7x pistol scope, given theprecise way you have to line your head up with the eyepiece and the loss of sight picture during recoil.Some of the faster matches, where there are multipletargets at close to medium range, are best shot usingred dot scopes or even iron sights as the targets canbe picked up much more quickly and the transitionbetween them will be a lot faster and more fluid asyour vision will be far less restricted compared to usinga telescopic sight.The Zeiss-1-5-6x42 electro dot would be ideal for the Bianchi C/F match, but they’re not cheap!To shoot well in the C/F Bianchi a 1.5 – 6x by 42mmwould be an ideal choice as the 1.5x setting wouldcertainly make life easier during the Mover andPlates matches and not many people would needover 6x to shoot the 50m stages on a full size target.Likewise, using a red dot on an LBR for this matchIf you eventually decide to start branching out andgive these more varied disciplines a try then you willneed to ensure that you use the right optic for the jobat hand and this can be done in two ways. The firstis to simply have a spare scope (or scopes) and fit itusing some decent quick release mounts, or by usinga set of the quick-release ring system. Warne make25