Coyote/Target rifle

One reason I don't like a scope with a minimum magnification of more than 2X or 3X goes back to an event from years ago. I was doing the early-morning sit-and-wait and had my 2x7 set on 7X. After sunup I started walking-hunting. I'd not set the scope down to 2X.

So, after a bit I jumped a nice fat eight-point buck at maybe fifteen yards. He goes to fifth-gear overdrive, I throw my rifle up to shoot--and all I see is brown. And then an ear. And then he's gone.

I don't shoot "brown". I shoot a specific place on a deer. Hard to do that when the field of view is danged little. (He made a long circle through the brush, working upwind. I cut across the circle and waited for him and killed him, a half-hour later.)

I've also found that 3X is no problem on a 350-yard buck. A little daylight over his back, and had a nice heart/lung hit. DRT.

IOW, there are "field-tested" reasons for my opinions...
 
Scopes are a bugger for me... Like Art... I have had some bad experiences with forgetting to tune down the zoom.

Now I have a .30-30 with a gawd awe-full cheap BIG scope. It has the zoom on the back and the parallax adjustment on front... Not a wise hunting scope for the vast majority of hunters on the vast majority of hunts... 2 adjustments required as you usually do not have a way to preset as the real world puts game any where from 10 yards to "out yonder a far piece" (real official measurement where I am)... I feel like I am tuning a 6 carb inline flathead motor trying to prepare for a shot...
Brent
 
I would go with a 3x9x40 or 3x9x50 in a Leupold or similar quality. The A.O. are nice when things are not moving, and I have one, but it is something else you need to mess with. If your calling them it's another thing you dont need to mess with.
 
I have two .243's.

One is a target/varmint rifle and it has a 6-18XAO on it.

The other is a deer rifle (which could be called a walking varminter) and it has a 3-9X on it.

So far, the only times I've used the high power end of these scopes is at the rifle range...
 
I've always left my variables set in the minimum power.

Reason? When you jump something close, you won't have time to "turn it down" if the power is up.

If you see a deer at 300 yards, you'll likely have time to "turn it up" if needed. If not, a 300 yard shot on 3x is a lot easier than a 30 yard shot on 9x.

But I started with a variable 'scope back in 1976, so I'm pretty familiar with 'em. Checking the power setting is second nature.

Daryl
 
I fell in love with my SS Scope. Its $299 for the rear focus and $399 for the side focus. Its a 10x scope with a 30mm tube. In all comparisons with it they use scopes costing $1000 to $1500 and it usually does as well if not better. I zeroed at 50m just for giggles and using my ballistics computer hit the 450m steel ram target first, second and third shot. Then adjusted for the 200m hanging man target, hit that and adjusted again for the 250m fox target. Its an amazing scope with solid clicks, easily adjustable. I bought the side focus. There's a lot of garbage about it being made by Tasco, but its really made by Haako, a japanese company. Google it, I'm sure you'll like what you see. Oh yeah...its got a pretty ridicoulous name...

Super Sniper Scope...
 
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