CaddmannQ
.50 BMG
Actually...... second focal plane is better for target shooting. Reason being, as you zoom in to the target, your crosshairs become thinner and narrower in relation to the target, giving you a smaller point to focus on. Whereas with first focal, if your crosshairs appear an inch wide on the target at 3 power, when you zoom in, they will still appear an inch wide at 9, 14, or 24 power.
Well after digging around and reading some more I think I've decided that I don't need a first focal plane scope for what I'm doing.
I can do my own ranging, because I'm shooting on a measured range. LOL
This really didn't occur to me that the advantage of that design (1st fp) is most important if you have to go shoot people off the side of a hill somewhere, and you don't know what the ranges are.
Anyhow I've looked at three different scopes at one of our local stores that I really like and they're all in the $1000 to $2,000 price range.
Of course my lovely wife wants to look at this purchase as if the rifle is not worth the expense of that scope.
Then I told her, "look honey I paid over $1,000 this year for eyeglasses. This is not about the rifle it's about my eyes."
Well her vision is not great so she understands. Also I explained to her that that scope I put on her $600 Rifle cost $900 retail.