We all know how we just hamstring ourselves with scopes too high in magnification, so we don't do it. It makes us slow, or even ineffective, and for the bloke who has spent half a lifetime breeding animals to a point of perfection, that is a terrible mistake. For the every-few-months hunter, who pains to get the right gear, gets time off, spends big $$$$ just getting into the bush, that's a no-go too.
I was sorting out some old Sporting Shooter magazines, this one from 2022, and I saw this ridiculous advertisement for Vortex scopes.
What a way to put a new shooter on the wrong track and take his money, and make everything after that diffcult.
I mean, it does say, a "hunting scope' for BIG GAME.
And, some caricature of a supposed knows-everything suave bloke with the movie-star moustashe called "Bluey", telling you this is the go.
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No wonder we see new hunters struggling to find game through hugely oversized scopes like these ones.
Not to mention the dull image from the high magnification range system internally.
What do you blokes reckon is the ideal magnification range for a "hunting" scope?
Not long range shooting, or heaven forbid, the perversion of long range sniping at animals. Walkabout hunting.
Variable? Fixed power?
Not important so much is the brand, because that's a hot topic, but ideal magnification, taking into account useable field-of-view, objective lens size (which if too big, stops a scope being mounted super-low which slows the shot down... like 50 or 56mm?).
Or do some people just buy a huge scope, and force themselves to adapt to the issues this causes?
