I am trying to decide what level of magnification I will need for coyote shots across a 300 yard open field, now behind the stand and to the sides is about 50 yards to the treeline and coyotes can come out any part of the field so I may take some shots at 100, even 50 yards, but the last shot a couple years ago I took was at the farthest end.
I am considering using a 1-4 power scope as It could be used for close range target shooting, home defense as well as mid range shooting. I'm not entirely sure what a coyote would look like at 300 yard though, Ive seen some pictures online and I could easily place rounds inside a targets head at 100 yards based off the pictures by 300 might be tricky, then again cameras tend to make things look farther away so it might appear a lot larger in real life. I can hit a coyote sized target at 150 yards using my mosin nagant so I can't imagine it would be hard to hit twice that with 4x magnification
Another option is just to buy a big scope as I will be sitting in a tree stand the whole time, it would let me zoom in as much as I like but the downside is Its only use would be coyote hunting as I dislike high magnification target shooting. That means 95% of the time it would just be sitting in the safe. And I would have to readjust it everytime I went hunting.
But what level is needed for coyotes in the 200-300 yard range? If decent marksmen only needs 4x Ill go with that but if someone who shoots better than me wouldn't make that shot I wouldn't want to either.
I am considering using a 1-4 power scope as It could be used for close range target shooting, home defense as well as mid range shooting. I'm not entirely sure what a coyote would look like at 300 yard though, Ive seen some pictures online and I could easily place rounds inside a targets head at 100 yards based off the pictures by 300 might be tricky, then again cameras tend to make things look farther away so it might appear a lot larger in real life. I can hit a coyote sized target at 150 yards using my mosin nagant so I can't imagine it would be hard to hit twice that with 4x magnification
Another option is just to buy a big scope as I will be sitting in a tree stand the whole time, it would let me zoom in as much as I like but the downside is Its only use would be coyote hunting as I dislike high magnification target shooting. That means 95% of the time it would just be sitting in the safe. And I would have to readjust it everytime I went hunting.
But what level is needed for coyotes in the 200-300 yard range? If decent marksmen only needs 4x Ill go with that but if someone who shoots better than me wouldn't make that shot I wouldn't want to either.