Help on scope magnification range??

Gerbs my good man...thats so you shoot her "like a shottie" in the bush LOL ours are just visible on lowest power a set of mounts next height up would fix that.

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Originally Posted by Gerbs

I went down this rabbit hole a few months ago with my 308.
Thought a 2-10x44 would be perfect - turns out all I could see at 2-5x in the bottom of my scope was suppressor.
Ended up with the 3-15x44 hd5.
Not too bad, but I'm tempted to trade it for a Sightron S-TAC 3-16.

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At least it sorts any paralax issues.

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Originally Posted by suthy

This is a interesting thread. Is very interesting that everyone says that you don't need magnification for this long range shooting and yet no one will put any less than a 4x power scope on a 22lr that get used for the most part at less than 50m!! Adding to this is no one seems to complain about target acquisition with these 4x power scopes so how is everyone having so much trouble with larger game?

Just to add my 2cents, I prefer slightly higher magnification like 4-16 or better yet 3-18 will be far better for long range shooting than a 9 or 10 power scope. If you've ever seen a deer at 500m through a 9x power scope I think you'll agree it's a pretty small target at that distance!!

It's also a lot different when you are talking about a sniper aka someone who is trying to shoot a person @ 500m and a person who is trying to shoot a deer and kill it humanely. Snipers don't shot to kill necessary, it's much better to just wound someone so it takes two people out of the fight. Also field of view in a combat situation is waaaaay more important since you can DIE if you don't see targets!!!!! No so important for hunting since most use binos for target acquisition as the common rifleman in the military does not.

Again just my 2c.

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I have bushnell 6500 eilete 2.5-16 on 2 of my rifles works well in the bush on 2.5 thanks to rainguard in the wet and not a problem at 500 not that i get many of those shots if i could afford a better scope it would be S&B buy the best glass you can afford it makes a big difference

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Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Gerbs my good man...thats so you shoot her "like a shottie" in the bush LOL ours are just visible on lowest power a set of mounts next height up would fix that.

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I'd be lying if I said that thought didn't cross my mind.... but my chubby cheeks like a low set of rings! Gets the scope into that sweet spot for my line-of-eye :)

it worked a treat before we got all flashfandangled and stuck mufflers on the end of barrels to protect our ears.

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Originally Posted by Bagheera

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If you are over 40 yo or shortsighted then parallax knob will help you get the target image sharp.
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You've actually confused "accommodation"with parallax. Younger eyes are more tolerant of focus issues but you're fooling yourself if you think that the image "looking OK " means you're immune to parallax aiming errors.