Art Eatman
Moderator In Memoriam
I've been kinda partial to Leupold scopes, these last forty or so years. Mine are all the older Vari-X II; mostly 3x9x40. It's easier to see bullet holes at a hundred yards than with a Weaver K4, but it doesn't really matter for Bambi.
Prairie dogs, though, 7X and 9X make it easier.
I've center-punched the steel of my 500-yard range via holdover and holding a couple of feet of windage, with 10X. Didn't seem like all that big a deal.
Absent tiny critters as targets or precision paper-punching, it seems to me that folks worry too much about run of the mill situations and hunting scopes. Serious low-light is a different matter, of course.
Prairie dogs, though, 7X and 9X make it easier.
I've center-punched the steel of my 500-yard range via holdover and holding a couple of feet of windage, with 10X. Didn't seem like all that big a deal.
Absent tiny critters as targets or precision paper-punching, it seems to me that folks worry too much about run of the mill situations and hunting scopes. Serious low-light is a different matter, of course.