Are there good books or especially videos on how to properly use a scope? I want to learn the basics and then work my way up to things like humidity, wind, etc.

Magpul Art of the Precision Rifle 5 Set DVD $60
http://store.magpul.com/product/DYN008/178

Trailer

http://www.odcmp.org/0107/default.asp?page=USAMU_WIND2
http://www.odcmp.com/Competitions/USAMU/Techniques.htm
A lot of it comes from experience.
Take good notes and shoot often. Reading mirage helped me a lot on my calls.

Anyone can recommend a good data book? Are there any local classes that we can take to learn precision rifle?

YouTube got choke videos....

This guys has an entire series on scopes, ballistics etc...

Go shooting with people from the forum. A lot of them are happy to assist you.

Who is willing on volunteering to teach for hours? I don't mind paying too but I want to learn the proper way.

Who is willing on volunteering to teach for hours? I don't mind paying too but I want to learn the proper way.

I took the magpul precision class in Washington earlier this year and another forum member took it about a month ago. You can pick our brains while it is still fresh

Everyone posted great links that will help you out for sure, but I would say the best way to learn to use a scope is to shoot with it. Hopefully you did your research beforehand and got the right scope for the job.
Anywho, shoot with the scope.   Learn how it works.  Sight it in yourself. Learn the dials.  Learn the marks and what they mean. Keep shooting and learn your point of aim and point of impact at different ranges.  And keep shooting.

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Link doesn't work but I figured it out. Thanks.

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Are there good books or especially videos on how to properly use a scope? I want to learn the basics and then work my way up to things like humidity, wind, etc.

What helped me is keeping an open mind and understanding that there is a lot of information out there and try not to get overwhelmed with everything.  I find that the more I learn, the more I learn how much I don't know...  Which is fine.  No one wakes up and just knows everything there is to know about long range shooting.  Learn everything there is to know about your scope.  Understanding your reticle and turrets would be a great start.  I've had great success with Strelok+ which is a ballistic application for smart phones.  It has a large selection of reticles and it is really a pretty simple app.  You input all the information that you can from bullet speed, bullet weight, ballistic coefficient, temp, distance, slope angle, wind speed, wind direction, etc.

This is my what my holdover would be with my reticle with a 100yrd zero at a target at 500yrds with 5mph wind at 90deg. at 20x magnification

You have to know the ballistics of your rifles  ammunition . It's starts there . If you are trying to figure it out on your 98b and shooting hornady 285gr I got a data card that could help you .

What helped me is keeping an open mind and understanding that there is a lot of information out there and try not to get overwhelmed with everything.  I find that the more I learn, the more I learn how much I don't know...  Which is fine.  No one wakes up and just knows everything there is to know about long range shooting.  Learn everything there is to know about your scope.  Understanding your reticle and turrets would be a great start.  I've had great success with Strelok+ which is a ballistic application for smart phones.  It has a large selection of reticles and it is really a pretty simple app.  You input all the information that you can from bullet speed, bullet weight, ballistic coefficient, temp, distance, slope angle, wind speed, wind direction, etc.

This is my what my holdover would be with my reticle with a 100yrd zero at a target at 500yrds with 5mph wind at 90deg. at 20x magnification

That's a good app that I'm trying now

Check out Ryan Cleckner's(NSSF) videos on youtube, Vortex Optics' site also has some good vids.

Just make sure you keep your eye the proper eye relief distance away from the scope before touching the trigger.  This is usually 2-4 inches or so.

Newbies have a tendency to put their eyes right up close to the scope as if it were binoculars or a regular telescope while trying to find the image.  If the gun is fired at that point, you will become a member of the "Crescent Club," where the recoiling scope hits you above the eye and leaves a crescent-shaped cut and scar.

My own scar from my first shot with a scoped rifle lasted about five years,.