Dianne first started exploring optics when hunting but got serious about it when she started competing. She started working with vortex as an archery competitor.

"I was out to look for a scope or rangefinder and I just wanted to make sure that my binocular as well all worked together and the optics were similar. The key thing when you look at Optics is you have to understand that when you're looking at your scopes, let it be MOA. It's an angular unit of measurement. One of the other things to always remember is the optic is what drives your bullet to the target. And you're just the one that looks for precision stuff. But realistically, your optics are key. And for me, I like usability. So one of the things that I'll go into is the Mil-radians and then I'll go into M.O.A. a little bit, but one of the things to really focus on is ease of use-ability. Make sure your scope fits you and you take the time to fit that scope to your rifle and to your eye. If that doesn't work, you're going to be moving around. And in any given time, you can get yourself off the target going left and right with your cheek and stuff like that. So that's the those are your basics. 

Then I move to the reticle. For me, the reticle was the key thing in my weight categories. So I shoot metallic silhouette, I shoot high power and I also shoot a small bore.  I wanted to be able to go from archery and then be able to go and shoot metallic silhouette the next weekend and then practicing throughout the week. So the key thing I look for was my spotting scope. My spotting scope is the razor HD 2760 by 85. And the key thing about my scope is the eyepiece. I think it's amazing--so smart, the eyepiece turns out it's a nice clear vision for archery. And then I put in my AMRAP eyepiece for shooting silhouette. And I tell you my coach loves me because if he has to go or my spotter, they're like oh you know your windage is out you need to go two clicks to the right well they're so used to MOA that they don't think about well little me shooting him right. So that was a key was to be able to help them to be able to support me while I was shooting. So that was that was the key thing is I chose that scope because of that. The  razor HD light keeps me in my the weight category for shooting silhouette. You have to be under nine pounds to be able to shoot the hunter class. So I shoot both over the hunters so I just have all one setup and away I go. I also did a I really worked on making sure my guns matched. So I use Tika TX 3. I use a Tikka TX one. And the stocks are similar I'm able to fit have the fitment exactly the same and go back to back and it feels like I'm using the exact same gun. One just kicks a little more. But other than that, that was the key was to build To get as much repeatability as I could to ease my own mind to be able to, to focus really on shooting with the other."