What Magnification are you pulling trigger on!?

-Deer 250 yards, 30-06 Burris 3-9x @ 9 power.
Once got at deer at 50 yards @ 3 power
-Black Bear at 15-20 yards, 30-06, iron sights
-Small game 45-50 yards, 22LR, 3-9 cheap Simmons @ 9 power for the far ones
Small game close up with iron sights, 22LR, estimated 5-10 yards
 
Moose , Remington 760 , Bushnell Trophy 1.5- 4 depending on range , Winchester Silver Tip 180 Gr. , 100 / 200 yards .
Birds Remington 780 , 410 Ga. #4
Paper Ruger 10/22 & Mk. 3 & 4 , Vostok Margolin 22 LR and 22 Short model .
Plus many more from the collection !
 
Canadiankeeper said:
Let me know!

What are you hunting ?
What distance are you shooting your game ?
What riflle/shotgun are you using?
What power magnification are you using, if any? (3x9 but set to 5x) ect.

Coyote
450 yards
22-250 weatherby
5-20 magnification, pulled trigger on 12x.

Squirrel
30 yards
22 LR
3-9 Pulled trigger on 4x.
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- Hunting deer usually
- Distance is from 75 to 200 yds usually
- Usually using a Rem mtn rifle in 30/06 - 165 grain load.
- Scope is a 2.5X8 variable. If under 75 yds will leave it on 2.5X which is what I carry the rifle on. If over 75 or so and I have time which I usually do I'll crank it to max magnification 8X for better resolution for the shot and to observe the animal immediately after the shot for signs of a hit and exact location of downed animal.

I will generally do the same for my other hunting rifles which have 3X9, 3X10, 4.5X14 scopes. This technique seems to work well for me.
 
My main hunting rifle is set up with a 4-20x50 ffp. I practice at the range with it at mostly max power. 6.5 PRC.
While hunting, it is set at whatever I need usually around 8-10. This year for deer I took my buck at about 80m and it was set around 8x.
This rifle I am comfortable to shoot out to 1000m, so have a larger scope set up on it.

The other rifle I used this year has a 2-10x40. Ruger #1, 450 BM.
Took a moose at 243m with it at 8x.
My elk was at 40m first shot, set around 5-6x.

I use a 4-12x40 for my 10/22 for grouse, and usually have it at 8-10x while shooting, but I like to head shot only, so the higher power helps.
 
in my deer stand 308 at 70yds with 8X56
deer/elk/moose/wild boar any distance upto 300 yds, 308 with 3-12X56,normally between 8-10 power
yotes 223 3-12X50 normally 8-10 power
chickens and smaller game, 22lr with 3-9x40 normally around 6 power
 
Gophers.
Anywhere from 3 yards to who knows yards.
Both my .22 MTR and Savage .17HMR have 6-24x scopes.
I don't think I ever crank it past 8x.
 
I sight in all rifles with the scope cranked up to max; I carry them in the field with the scope on minimum power, and find I shoot most critters that way. If I take a longer shot, I'll crank it back up to max. I can't remember the last time I used any of the in-between powers.

I find I'm leaning more and more towards fixed 4x and especially 6x scopes. Lighter, simpler, cleaner-looking. Leupold 6x42's are great, and I am very fond of S&B 6x42 models as well, although they are at the high end of the weight I want in a hunting scope.
 
I have 3.5-10 x40 VX3 scopes on most of my hunting rifles, and carry them in
the field at 5 or 6x. If the shot turns out to be long, one usually has time to turn
up the power if he deems that necessary. My longest kill was taken with a 6x42
fixed power Leupold. Dave.
 
Years back when I hunted in Zimbabwe we waited as a herd of Cape Buffalo approached. I was using a 375 Ruger with a 3-9x scope. Of course, I walked around with the scope on 3x, but as the herd was set to pass us at around 100 yards I decided to crank the magnification up until it looked right. So, looking through the scope, I gave the power ring a twist and zoomed in on the bull. At the shot the bull made a short dash and went down, as I fought the jammed cartridge out of the action (Hornady DGX hung up on the feed ramp and drove the bullet back into the case). When we got up to the bull he was dead. At that point I took a look at the power selector.

I had "cranked it up" to just past 4x.
 
Different rifle ( 280 #1) and scope 6-24X Vortex set up for a 200 yard zero, shot at 11 yards after a quick crank back from 24X
They all work when used effectively
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Shot my deer at around 40 yards with a muzzleloader, and I am pretty sure I had the 3-9 scope to 3x when I pulled the trigger, as that is where I leave it unless otherwise called for. I find I can always make do with less, but its trouble to have too much and waste time finding the deer in your sights.
 
Deciding magnification for someone else is difficult; because I’m absolutely convinced that people see magnification differently. A test I did years back with several very experienced friends involved taking a bare low powered variable and cranking it back and forth until the subject was satisfied that what he saw through the scope matched what he saw un-aided, with the other eye for 2 eyed shooters. Inevitably the magnifaction ended up around 3 power. Seems odd but we don’t see with our eyes exactly; those just gather light. We see with our optic nerves and our brains. Our brains stubbornly insist on trying to make sense of things, and since a 2 eyed shooter is getting conflicting information from each eye it makes up its own mind about what the picture in your head is going to look like. For me, low power scopes like 1.5X make things look farther away than they really are, perhaps because I spend a lot of time stRing through high powered oltics. My 3 could well be someones elses 1X; therefore his 4 is probably my 7. The brain is pretty adaptable; if you wore a fixture that turned the world upside down all the time, it will flip it rightside up after about 3 days because you know it isn’t true. Take it off and your naked vision will show you an upside down world, but that will correct back in about the same 3 days.
 
Deciding magnification for someone else is difficult; because I’m absolutely convinced that people see magnification differently. A test I did years back with several very experienced friends involved taking a bare low powered variable and cranking it back and forth until the subject was satisfied that what he saw through the scope matched what he saw un-aided, with the other eye for 2 eyed shooters. Inevitably the magnifaction ended up around 3 power. Seems odd but we don’t see with our eyes exactly; those just gather light. We see with our optic nerves and our brains. Our brains stubbornly insist on trying to make sense of things, and since a 2 eyed shooter is getting conflicting information from each eye it makes up its own mind about what the picture in your head is going to look like. For me, low power scopes like 1.5X make things look farther away than they really are, perhaps because I spend a lot of time stRing through high powered oltics. My 3 could well be someones elses 1X; therefore his 4 is probably my 7. The brain is pretty adaptable; if you wore a fixture that turned the world upside down all the time, it will flip it rightside up after about 3 days because you know it isn’t true. Take it off and your naked vision will show you an upside down world, but that will correct back in about the same 3 days
 
My main scopes are 2x 6.5-20x50 Conquest, 3-20x50 Schmidt PMII US, 2x 4-16x50 Schmidt PMII, 5-25x56 PMII, 3-27 PMII, 3-12x50 Schmidt Zenith.
Mostly use the 3-20 and 4-16 for deer from 10m - 600m mostly on max mag and conquest for fox out to 500m always on 20 mag.
All scopes turned to lowest magnification when walking about.
One good advantage of high magnification and paralax is that if on target one can run the paralax from target range down to lowest setting to see if anything is in the way of the bullet like branch, electric wire or grass.

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