Hey all,
just wanted to drop a line and say Hey! Been lurkin in the background for awhile and decided to finally start an account. A little about myself, I'm a semi-recent transplant to AZ from NY. I've been here about 2 years, and it's getting to where I don't refer to NY as "home" anymore. I'm an avid hunter, but not much of a shooter. I enjoy it, but I find myself shooting maybe  a couple boxes every couple of months through my rifles. I recently picked up a Vanguard S2 in .257 and so far I love that thing! very smooth shooting. I'm not much on breaking in rifles, so I just slowly ran through a box of Norma 100gr spitzers and so far I'm impressed with this rifle! It's topped with a Vortex Diamondback Tactical 3-9x40 I picked up on sale and I like it too, just not 100% sold on the exposed turrets for a centerfire rifle. the only tactical style scope I've ever used prior was on a PCP air rifle for work, and that's since been swapped for a capped model.

So I guess I'll pose my 1st question in this forum. For the .257, what style scopes do you guys prefer (power, reticle etc) and how far do you usually hunt game? I'm usually more of a lower power, duplex reticle style hunter but I wouldn't mind letting this rifle stretch its legs on the range once in awhile