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    Shepherd DRS 6-24x50mm Sniper Series S1C rifle scope

    Feb 04, 2019 6 minutes
    WRITTEN BY ~ GREG DULEY

    It's been around since 1983. The story goes Dan Shepherd, the inventor, had a dream about looking through a scope and seeing a bright light in the centre and another star light some distance away at about 10 o’clock. In his dream he turned a dial and the star light moved to align with the centre light, and from this the idea of his dual reticle scope was born.

    That is one of the things that strikes you the first time you see a Shepherd scope – it has two windage and two elevation dials – a big set and a smaller set. What Dan did was combine a first focal plane (FFP) and a second focal plane (SFP) reticle in the one scope, giving the advantages of both systems. The FFP has the reticle with only the objective lens between it and the target, whereas the SFP has several more

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