New scope question

[A. F Medic]

Thinking about buying a new scope that has the circles under the cross hairs. How do you sight one of those in? Sight in the cross hairs and everything follows?

As you read, I really do not know anything about them. Brand you would reccomend?

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[HD-Ghost]

Sounds like a Shepard scope. The circles are for range estimation. Don't have any time behind one of these, but some praise them.
What are you trying to scope and what is your budget?

[A. F Medic]

From wood chucks to white tails. In .308. Maybe $400. Putting it on a Thompson Center rifle.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Nikon Prostaff is a very nice scope for the $.

[Aragorn243]

I know I'm probably committing sacrilege but I don't think I've ever paid more than $80 for a scope. Most of the rifles I hunt with have $25 Bushnels I purchased about 30 years ago and they are still going strong. The exceptions being my 17HMR's and they came with scopes. The best scopes I own are 40 year old Weaver's.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

I know I'm probably committing sacrilege but I don't think I've ever paid more than $80 for a scope.

Are you sure you are not by brother in law? We had this same discussion for the tenth time at a gunshow this weekend.

[Aragorn243]

I don't beat my rifles to crap and I was taught not to bang my scopes into anything either. I've hunted in all sorts of conditions including snow, freezing rain, rain so heavy I couldn't see further than 10 feet. I've shot things from 22 caliber up to 356 win and not once in 38 years have I had a failure of a scope. I have 3-9 power variables on my deer rifles and I've probably brought home over 40 deer in that time span. I hunt primarily in the woods, often in brush or putting on drives through brush. My dads been doing all this for an additional 25 years, brought home over 100 deer and is the one that bought me my first scopes because that's what he was using. Some of them have dents, one has a dent from the hammer hitting the bottom of it because it was installed poorly (it did misfire, bugger of a thing to figure out as it did not strike it until it made that tiny extra move to hit the firing pin). So you guys can spend $300-$400 on a scope, I'd rather spend it on another rifle.