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Are high powered scopes really necessary for hunting?
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1562255" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Some really good points in your post and those just above.</p><p></p><p>I'll add this. </p><p></p><p>The higher the magnification the more you pick up and are likely to then end up fighting every little minute movement, even your own heartbeat. This can easily get to the point it has you magnifying those errors by tensing up and trying to fight them.</p><p></p><p>Most of the game I shoot is shot between 300-750 yds occasionally stretching out to a thousand or just beyond and even on something as small as coyotes and bobcats I find my VX6 3-18x50's and 4-24x52's to be more than adequate.</p><p></p><p>It's easy, particularly in a crowd like this to get hung up on always going for the bigger, better, badder, faster, newest, highest BC yada, yada on the market but particularly when it comes to scope magnification it's real easy to go way overboard and actually end up hurting yourself rather than helping.</p><p></p><p>I've gone out expecting a LR situation many times with my older 6-24x's or higher magnificatio scopes and suddenly found myself needing to be able to shoot at 30-75yds where the bottom magnification is so high and so full of boar, buck etc that I cannot get the shot off because it's like looking at them through a microscope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1562255, member: 30902"] Some really good points in your post and those just above. I'll add this. The higher the magnification the more you pick up and are likely to then end up fighting every little minute movement, even your own heartbeat. This can easily get to the point it has you magnifying those errors by tensing up and trying to fight them. Most of the game I shoot is shot between 300-750 yds occasionally stretching out to a thousand or just beyond and even on something as small as coyotes and bobcats I find my VX6 3-18x50's and 4-24x52's to be more than adequate. It's easy, particularly in a crowd like this to get hung up on always going for the bigger, better, badder, faster, newest, highest BC yada, yada on the market but particularly when it comes to scope magnification it's real easy to go way overboard and actually end up hurting yourself rather than helping. I've gone out expecting a LR situation many times with my older 6-24x's or higher magnificatio scopes and suddenly found myself needing to be able to shoot at 30-75yds where the bottom magnification is so high and so full of boar, buck etc that I cannot get the shot off because it's like looking at them through a microscope. [/QUOTE]
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