Scope for a 30-06
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I think 50 mm on a 3-9x is useless extra weight.
Even on an overcast day, at last legal time on 9x you can easily make an accurate shot with a 40 mm.
I would choose a 50mm when i get in the 4.5-14x / 4-16x range of scope.
Even then my 4-16x nikon is 42mm and i have yet to experience it being to small in objective size. But i appreciate the few ounces less in weight.
Even on an overcast day, at last legal time on 9x you can easily make an accurate shot with a 40 mm.
I would choose a 50mm when i get in the 4.5-14x / 4-16x range of scope.
Even then my 4-16x nikon is 42mm and i have yet to experience it being to small in objective size. But i appreciate the few ounces less in weight.
I'll keep the pack of gum, at least it might be usefull.
I woukld tewnd to agree actually... As long as we were all shooting leupolds... The extra ten sure hleps the midrange scopes...
Thats some nice open country in your avatar, well suited to a 3x, but not suited for lot of other tighter areas where deer can hang out.
So how about 30 feet..or 10 feet!
The average distance a deer is shot at our camp & quite a few out of your open farm country is about 50 feet...thats average!
3X is way to powerful depending on where you hunt!
The spike horn I shot at 8yds would probley disagree with you
8yds...thats 24 feet...what if it got closer
2nd last buck I shot was 8 feet.
Believe it or not 300yd shots can be easily made with a 1.5X if you have a rest
Actually that's just the back corner of my yard where I hang my deer..... Bush around me is pretty thick in spots too... I get your point though... I use my 3-9 when sitting or slow stalking / glassing.... 3x would be pretty impractical for pushing etc....
The spike horn I shot at 8yds would probley disagree with you
Worked for you this time around...
I to used a 3-9 scope when I first started with a scope....Thats what the guy at the gun shop suggested, so it must be the best, or so I thought...I found it got me into some situations where the deer was very close, or close and on the move, and the 3-9 was indeed too much scope....Then I moved to a red dot...Great up close, but not so much further out...I then went to a low powered vaiable leupold with heavy duplex...Best of both worlds, from 10' to 100yrd running deer , and 400yrd moose...Freezer full..
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3x9x has my vote...my midland 30-06 uses one and with it variable i am confident close 10 yards or distant at 200 yards.
Yep there's 3 or 4 3x9s on top of cabinet at our hunt camp that guys bought for deer hunting on the recommendation of gun shop people
It's like asking for mechanical advice from the counter guy at CTC
You'd see me hunting the dirty thirty with irons if the shots were typically that close...
3-9's served me well although I'm no scope guru. This year's bags were 1 moose offhand at 200 (close to the end of hunting light), one deer resting at 100 (the sun had dropped over the mountain),and one off hand at less than 30 (on a bright, snow covered day). All taken with the 3-9 x 40mm with no drama... One thing I do though is shoot with both eyes open. I can quickly acquire the target, then place the cross-hair in the right spot.
That's very hard to teach yourself to do!
And almost impossible with 3X or higher scopes, although I do know a couple guys that can!
Are you a target shooter?
Those guys have taught themselves to keep one eye on wind socks & one eye on the crosshair/target!
I have tried but usually "fail"
That's very hard to teach yourself to do!
And almost impossible with 3X or higher scopes, although I do know a couple guys that can!
Are you a target shooter?
Those guys have taught themselves to keep one eye on wind socks & one eye on the crosshair/target!
I have tried but usually "fail"
Definitely not a target shooter! Just some guy walking around in the poor weather with a rifle in his hand =]
