Thread: Who loves magnification?

Originally Posted by Sarvo

Here a Q for you all
My neighbor who will be 80 this year and has shot a lot of Deer on his daughters Station next to Molesworth over many years and other parts of South Island
He says he always shoots with his scope on full magnification being 9x on most his scopes and maybe a 7x on one
He went form a 3006 to 223 and 243 in later years
Most if not all is open country shooting

What are your thoughts on that ??

he stalks into within 300yards...probably more like 250yards,has a settled animal being private land and picks his shots....being long in tooth he wont be in a hurry and buck fever should be a distant memory...
you can bet he not a twiddler fiddler and probably doesnt own a rangefinder......which is probably answer to origonal question.....if you are into twiddling n fiddling and use a rangefinder and probably have a chronicgraph at home...you might well get some advantage from higher magnification as you will possibly be taking longer than 350-4000yards shots....... if like 80% of folks and you shoot 95% of your animals at sub 350 yards,a lower smaller lighter less fancy scope will do just fine.......if you stalking in the bush and a deer bolts past at 30 yards and you have a top of the line scope Kahles/Zeiss/burris eliminator etc with minimum power of 4 and its like looking through a drain pipe with piss poor field of view,well you are probably not going to get your knife out anytime soon.if that animal pauses at 50 yards for 2 seconds you probably wont find it in scope in time either....seen this first hand with Swedish mate...meanwhile my x39mm with low power scope allowed me to shoot the first on the run,and the second while mate was cursing as he couldnt find it....