Thread: Who loves magnification?

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

I'm sure scope manufacturers and retailers love higher magnification scopes; more profit for them.

Some of the youngsters I've come across who have a huge, heavy, high magnification Hubble type scope on their lightweight 7mm/08 or .308 ruining the balance and handling of such a rifle. Of course they're going to shoot deer at 600m or more easy as pie because the guy in the shop who sold them the scope told them that's what they have to have to be successful deer hunters.

I once passed a couple of young guys going up the umakari with massive packs chocked to the brim and both carrying big bull barreled lam stocked hubble telescoped cannons. They were about halfway up and one looked like he had allready blown abiut 3 gaskets and the other looked ready to turn around. We passed them, ducked off the track shot, gutted and packed a deer then passed them again on the way down.

Would loved to have seen them once they got to the top, would have been to buggered to hunt I reckon