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<blockquote data-quote="bearcat2" data-source="post: 2028603" data-attributes="member: 18832"><p>It should be good. I actually went down from VX3 6.5-20 to a Mark IV 4.5-14 on my rifle. MUCH better quality glass, better low light and I had shot two elk in the timber with the VX3, one of them on a dead run. I tend to shoot running game pretty much like wing shooting deer, without really looking at the sights at that sort of range. Only way I was able to shoot that elk, 6.5 is too much in the timber. I very rarely miss the 20x when looking at something a LONG ways away, when hiking I tend to carry binos and rifle, but no spotting scope, using the rifle scope to try and judge an animal at distances my 10x binos don't suffice. But the better quality glass makes up for quite a bit of the difference between 14x and 20x. And if you ever walk through the timber to where you are going to hunt open long range some day you will be presented with a close range snap shot at game, and that 4x low end setting may just put meat in the freezer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bearcat2, post: 2028603, member: 18832"] It should be good. I actually went down from VX3 6.5-20 to a Mark IV 4.5-14 on my rifle. MUCH better quality glass, better low light and I had shot two elk in the timber with the VX3, one of them on a dead run. I tend to shoot running game pretty much like wing shooting deer, without really looking at the sights at that sort of range. Only way I was able to shoot that elk, 6.5 is too much in the timber. I very rarely miss the 20x when looking at something a LONG ways away, when hiking I tend to carry binos and rifle, but no spotting scope, using the rifle scope to try and judge an animal at distances my 10x binos don't suffice. But the better quality glass makes up for quite a bit of the difference between 14x and 20x. And if you ever walk through the timber to where you are going to hunt open long range some day you will be presented with a close range snap shot at game, and that 4x low end setting may just put meat in the freezer. [/QUOTE]
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