Thread: Scope musings

Originally Posted by ZQLewis

I would suggest a 2-10 or 2-12 for General hunting with a 308. Thats like an open sights shot at 50 mtr on a deer size target. Your not shooting rabbits.
Unless you do a lot of hunting you need to keep it simple or you get caught out.

My last hunt was a goat hunt on cut over forestry, I started out prone then moved to seated back against a stump and using my knee for suport on the edge of a Hauler site shooting down hill. We started at 1-200 mtr then and a mob pop up at 10 mtr running across infront of me. Getting the 4-16x scope wound down and I forgot the parallex (focus) meant I could not see or find the goats clearly in the scope so just shot both eyes open.
To be fair I would have been better off with a diffferent rifle, my lever action with a 2-10 scope or 22wmr semi with 1-4 scope.
Point being we went expecting a longer range hunt and ended up shooting most of the 50 goats at less than 50 mtr.
Z

Appreciate this, good points there to consider. Thanks.