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Now that you've bought a new scope, it's time to affix it to your rifle, a daunting but not impossible task for marksmen. If there's any one trend I see a lot of as a professional precision rifle instructor, it's improperly mounted riflescopes. If we look at what a rifle scope is from a fundamental standpoint, it's a mechanical aiming device that gives us the ability to bring a distant target up close and personal, which in turn allows the shooter to pick a relatively precise aiming point that the shooter hopes to put a bullet into if everything else...

If there's one question I receive, or view as a question posed on the vast expanses of the internet, it's "what scope should I buy?" The resultant answers are usually comprised of about 95 percent useless information, whereas the remaining 5 percent is generated by folks who have a solid understanding of how to make a good choice with optics. Optics aren't cheap, and it’s always a good idea to subscribe to the “buy once, cry once” policy when it comes to buying them. Why is that useless information percentage so high? Because there's an incredible amount of old and...

I am contemplating buying a night-vision rifle scope for hunting wild pigs and disposing of varmints that attack my garden under cover of night.