How would you upgrade these two rifle

brassens

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Hey guys,

I have an old black Powder CVA Wolf with a cheap 3-9X combo scope on it. The deer hunting season for black powder here is quite long so it's useful to have it. Recently they opened up the season for rifle as well. As I intended to start hunting moose soon as well, I bough a Trophy Hunter 116 combo that has a Bushnell Trophy XLT DOA 600 on it. My original though was to transfer the XLT on the CVA Wolf and upgrade the scope on my 116.

I have two options, I upgrade the scope on my CVA Wolf directly with something in the 150$ range.

I transfer the XLT on the wolf, and I upgrade the scope on the 116 with something in the 250-400$ dollar range.

You guys have any suggestion regarding my two options and which scope it would go with?

I am mostly hunting deer for now. Depending on which stand I use, Its shots between up to150 yards or up to 300 yards.

Cheers
 
Yes.

Don't cheap out on optics when you hunt on the edges of daylight in poor visibility or heavy cover. I changed from 32mm objective hunting scopes to 40mm then 44 mm front lenses because I could not identify the target in my scope that I could clearly see with 10x50 binoculars. One rifle now has a 50mm objective for that exact reason.
 
And a second thought. Don't underestimate your Savage combo rifle. I encouraged a relative to put his .338 WM on the rack and pick up a .300 WM Savage combo. His son in law bought the identical rifle. One hunter dropped a mule deer buck that made the Saskatchewan big game trophy book, and the other's buck was just outside the scoring.
 
I think my combo is quite good for the price. It was 650$ cad, with stainless barrel. I have hunted with it this year, and deer is now in my freezer. I really want to upgrade the one on my CVA and wondered what was the best option for me. I was thinking maybe a 3.5-10 in 44mm or 55mm on the 116.
 
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