At some point you all are correct, the main reason for that high rail is my size and long neck if I had more space in my rifle case it will be higher, it was made by my specifications by the Guru Jon Harris because during the travel for last year World's during transportation the Steyr rail on top of BLK twisted and cost me 2 first shoots.
A vertical neck helps a lot in standing and kneeling also a high scope is more forgiving during the range finding, the opposite you all know are the close ones, I use 22cliks at 50mt and 110 at 9mt and 165cliks at 8mt so I need 2 turns of my turret at 8mt...
I don’t like big wheels for several reasons:
Bigger are heavier and is a weigh in a high place in my particular case that is very high,
They don’t give better resolution, the error is the same in a small or large,
A good scope has better glass and that means higher deep of field and for those, Deon, Leupold, S&Bender, etc a large is bad because you will travel a long distance with clear image and a big wheel takes time to do that and that will give your eyes time to focus on the target and not only on the reticle as it should, with a small you can snap in and out very quick and stay on the reticle. A Niko is more milky so you enter out of focus very fast and a big will is no problem.
My marks are 0,5mt from 7 to 17.5, 1mt from 18 to 30 and 2,5mt from 30 to 52,5mt from 40 to 50mt the marks are 1mm apart with very small letters.
The pointers are not for temperature but for my tired eyes at the zero range I focus to 50mt and place the green one over that mark and I know that after an hour I will be over range and use the red on the top of it, if you see me shooting the long ones you probably noticed that I measure more than 52mt, the more important is not the equipment but how you know it and adapt to it, probably it will be better to buy a pair of glasses two days before the Open I made 48 years and it time to start use some, by the way Millau was a great present
