Thread: New scope

Unless you have a very large objective lens, say like 50 - 56mm then your alway goung to get smaller field of view when you go higher magnification. Of course 2x mag will have more fov (and more light) than a 4.5x with same objective lens size! If your bush hunting then 2x is advantageous compared to 5 x. It's a very different story if you are hunting in open longer range terrain though. It's the old story;
Horses for Courses. The fact is; the leupold 4.5-14 *40 is ACTUALLY 4.9x-14.4x *40, so you may as well realise that on low power it is essentially a 5 x scope and designed more for open country longer range hunting than bush hunting.