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SFP - how much magnification is too much?
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<blockquote data-quote="dfanonymous" data-source="post: 2198386" data-attributes="member: 97050"><p><span style="font-size: 16px">There's nothing beneficial to it. You don't need to see the pimple on a gnats *** at a light year away unless you are bench shooting. Most of us that come from a military background and or competitive background, specifically PRS, use the least amount of magnification we can get away with. I rarely use over 18x, in any situation of 1200y or in, unless the target is less then 10in. For military work there are other aspects like PID, that is a separate component to shooting, but requires magnification and is beside the point.</span></p><p></p><p>FOV, specifically finding a target with haste, and tracking a target</p><p>The shakes</p><p>Mirage kind of </p><p>Reticle obscuring the target</p><p>Don't care about spotting your own impacts or follow up shots on the fly.</p><p>Chromatic aberration on the cheaper scopes</p><p>…are indeed limiting factors and reasons not to go full mag.</p><p></p><p>If the target: isn't going anywhere, you're not in a hurry, is marked or identified by a number, lane or whatever, and you don't use or need reticle for anything…then I reckon max mag, especially beyond 16x will be a dandy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dfanonymous, post: 2198386, member: 97050"] [SIZE=16px]There’s nothing beneficial to it. You don’t need to see the pimple on a gnats *** at a light year away unless you are bench shooting. Most of us that come from a military background and or competitive background, specifically PRS, use the least amount of magnification we can get away with. I rarely use over 18x, in any situation of 1200y or in, unless the target is less then 10in. For military work there are other aspects like PID, that is a separate component to shooting, but requires magnification and is beside the point.[/SIZE] FOV, specifically finding a target with haste, and tracking a target The shakes Mirage kind of Reticle obscuring the target Don’t care about spotting your own impacts or follow up shots on the fly. Chromatic aberration on the cheaper scopes …are indeed limiting factors and reasons not to go full mag. If the target: isn’t going anywhere, you’re not in a hurry, is marked or identified by a number, lane or whatever, and you don’t use or need reticle for anything…then I reckon max mag, especially beyond 16x will be a dandy. [/QUOTE]
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