The short answer to your question is; yes. Even with aged, altered eyes, you can shoot to those distances.


Long distance shooting is an art unto itself. As one instructor said, "It doesn't start to get real until 500 yards. That's when you realize just how hard it is to shoot long distance."

Any quality scope will have an adjustable ocular lens (the one next to your eye). You would have to have really bad eyesight not to be able to adjust it for your vision.

More magnification is not the answer. At 800 yards, 12x magnification is plenty. I have a Vortex Razor HD Gen II 3-18x50 scope. When I was at one school, I found it more favorable to dial it back to 15x or even 10x which helped reduce the effect of the mirage. Yes, I shot better with the lower magnification.


Before I go further, a couple of questions...
What rifle/round do you intend to use for this endeavor?
Do you reload?

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