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<blockquote data-quote="budlight" data-source="post: 496277" data-attributes="member: 2939"><p>Well I'm a Prarrie dog and Marmont hunter. I believe in big tubes like 30 mm with 50, 56, or 60 mm objective lenses. Big field of view. I find my self shooting up near 24X all the time. I've thought about going to 8 - 32X power. </p><p></p><p>You can't shoot something that you can't see. I had a 3X-12X 50 mm on my first 243 and it really sucked. You could not make out a motionless prarrie dog sunning its self laying on the side of it's burrough at much over 300 yards. When their fur is the same color as the dirt they can even run and stop and you can't tell if its a dog or a dirt mount. Yes, the cross hairs also completely cover them up out there at 300+ I yanked scope off and replaced it with 6-24X 56 mm</p><p></p><p>I believe that people that love and brag on low powered scopes have never used a higher power with big objective lenses. So they just don't under stand. </p><p></p><p>With a 24X scope you can see a .277 or 30 cal. hole on paper at 200 yards without a problem. with 24X I can see .22 and .243 holes appear on paper at 100 yards. I don't have to get up and look through a spotting scope to see where I'm shooting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="budlight, post: 496277, member: 2939"] Well I'm a Prarrie dog and Marmont hunter. I believe in big tubes like 30 mm with 50, 56, or 60 mm objective lenses. Big field of view. I find my self shooting up near 24X all the time. I've thought about going to 8 - 32X power. You can't shoot something that you can't see. I had a 3X-12X 50 mm on my first 243 and it really sucked. You could not make out a motionless prarrie dog sunning its self laying on the side of it's burrough at much over 300 yards. When their fur is the same color as the dirt they can even run and stop and you can't tell if its a dog or a dirt mount. Yes, the cross hairs also completely cover them up out there at 300+ I yanked scope off and replaced it with 6-24X 56 mm I believe that people that love and brag on low powered scopes have never used a higher power with big objective lenses. So they just don't under stand. With a 24X scope you can see a .277 or 30 cal. hole on paper at 200 yards without a problem. with 24X I can see .22 and .243 holes appear on paper at 100 yards. I don't have to get up and look through a spotting scope to see where I'm shooting. [/QUOTE]
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