Thread: Going ‘old school’

Originally Posted by WillB

Interesting thread. I have a 308 with a vx5 3-15 on it but I feel like that’s more than I need very often. I was thinking about getting a 1” lower power and lighter scope for bush hunting etc. Any recommendations? VX 3i 2.5-8 is clearly one. What about swaro z3 3-9 x 36?

Either of those two would be excellent scopes. Have no first hand experience with the swaro, but have a mate who likes his. I recall that the Duleys used one of these on their "bush pig" series a few years ago. Also great is the Nikon monarch 2-8X32, I have one on my .308, a little cheaper for those on a budget.

The thing for me is that I don't consider these "old school", just sensible sized scopes for general NZ hunting. But then I have no interest in shooting over 300m or so. So perhaps I'm old school after all.....

Originally Posted by Dama dama

The thing for me is that I don't consider these "old school", just sensible sized scopes for general NZ hunting. But then I have no interest in shooting over 300m or so. So perhaps I'm old school after all.....

Yep very nicely put. And I like the 2x rule. Haven’t heard that one before. There is something about keeping it simple (well relatively simple a lot still goes into it).