khesser
AH senior member
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- USA-Alaska, South Dakota, RSA
Now I highly recommend you forget about a custom dial and get a good range finder with a ballistic calculator. CDS dials only take into account a given bullet, velocity, and density altitude. If anything changes outside what you got that dial custom made for then it’s useless. You can program into range finding binoculars a gun profile then it’s good for wherever you plan to hunt and it will take into altitude and weather to make sure it gives you an accurate come up to dial your scope. And if you use a different lot of ammo or different type of ammo you can then chronograph that load and plug that data in and be good to go. CDS dials are good marketing but I personally would not rely on one out past 400 yards.
The Kudu was taken at 580 yards that I used Swarovski EL Range binoculars to range the animal and give me an accurate come up to dial my scope for an accurate shot.