Thread: Hunting Scope Magnification

2.5-8
3-9
2-10

It is the glass manufacturer that makes the difference.

Fixed 4x on the 22
3-9x40 on my bush rifle
3-15x44 for open tops rifle
4-20x50 for long range varminting rifle.

Magnification can be good, but also work against you with the smaller field of view. As @jakewire said, I think glass quality is more important than magnification.

Originally Posted by Tahr

If you haven't noticed, a lot of hunters are actually full of shit. They spend a fortune on bush pigs and put small low power 'scopes on them but actually never bush hunt and their average ranges are more like 200 yds than 20 yds.

So true. How many times do you read that someone is setting up a bush rifle and sets zero 1 inch high at 100 yards? I wonder if they've ever been in to the bush!

3-9 on .22
3-12 on .223
2.5-6 FFP on 243, bush gun
3-10 on 270.
3-9 with parallax sitting with night vision for .22 or .223.
3-15 new in box, don't know why I purchased it.

Originally Posted by MB

So true. How many times do you read that someone is setting up a bush rifle and sets zero 1 inch high at 100 yards? I wonder if they've ever been in to the bush!

A 200y Zero (or an inch or 2 high at a hundy) is actually a perfect bush range Zero. Bang on at a hundred means you're shooting low at all bush ranges.

at it will be near enough to smack dead on at 26 yards too........

4x28
2.5-8x36
3-9x40
2-12x42
All leupys apart from a token zeiss. If I had a 7mmRM or similar I think I would want a 3.5-18. If I had a pure bush rifle I’d be keen to try a fixed 1.5x or a red dot

4-16 for my main hunting rifle but 90% of my hunting is open. Last deer I shot was at 16x and was about 80m away magnification seems to be my friend.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

A 200y Zero (or an inch or 2 high at a hundy) is actually a perfect bush range Zero. Bang on at a hundred means you're shooting low at all bush ranges.

Was just about to reply with the same thing until I saw you beat me to it.

4-12 on my .223, and a fixed 8x Zeiss on my .30/06 tops rifle. I have a 2-7 on my .300 Blackout for bush work.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

A 200y Zero (or an inch or 2 high at a hundy) is actually a perfect bush range Zero. Bang on at a hundred means you're shooting low at all bush ranges.

Not sure if this is the case. Won't the bullet pass through the line of sight at 25-30m and then drop back low again after 100? (If zeroed at 100)

Originally Posted by Shearer

Not sure if this is the case. Won't the bullet pass through the line of sight at 25-30m and then drop back low again after 100? (If zeroed at 100)

Not with any proper bush calibers with a scope attached.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Not with any proper bush calibers with a scope attached.

So the bullet is rising to line of sight all the way to 100m?

Most medium calibres zeroed at 200 will be plus or minus no more than 2" out to about 240 metres, 200 is my zero for the .30/06. To me bush shooting is below 100 metres so I like a 100 zero and just hold over for longer shots.

I always sighted my bush rifle which in those days was a 243 in at 50 yrds and from memory it was still a fraction high at 100 .
Whatever it was it worked well ( just had think that was over 20 years ago ) and accounted for many a Deer and Goat from zero to 150 yrds , most were 60 and in .

PS - A fixed 3 power Leupold was the optic of choice for that rifle.