Scope recomendation

I'd base the choice on your experience with the existing magnification range you are using. Was there anything different to be desired?
 
Well I have been using a 3-9x32 I said earlier that it was a 3-10-32 but I had a closer look at it , I do have a 3.5-10-50 VX3 on a different rifle it is good but I would like a little bit more magnification at 100-300 yrds. On a total different rifle I have a 6.5-20-40mm and at 100 yrds it is awsome, but that is on a .223 this is for a 7mm Rem Mag, I am leaning towards the 4.5-14-40mm but have never owned this particular size.


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The 3.5-10X50 seems to be a great power range for our eastern Deer and Moose and the typical ranges with that 7mm. I have the 3.5-10X50 on a Mod 70 7mmRemMag and like it alot. The larger body scopes like these, seem to accent the full size magnum Rifle as well in apperance, IMHO.
Had two different 2X-7Xs on it , not too bad a power range, except limited on the upper end for where the Magnum shines on Deer, but never looked right on that full size Rifle.:canadaFlag:
 
Never been handicapped with a straight 6x, and most of my hunting rifles have that on them, the excellent Leupold 6x42. However, any of the variables in the 2½-8 or 3½-10 would work fine. If you feel you must go up to the 4½-14, it will work as well, but is a bit much for most pure "hunting" rifles. JMHO, Eagleye.
 
I like the 3-9X40. I have tried a couple 2-7 scopes, a Burris and a Leupold. I don't know why, but the 3-9 just feels more like it's filling my field of view.
I believe I have shot 2 deer at 9X and every other one (a couple dozen) at 4X, which is where I park the scope normally.
 
caramel said:
Lost the biggest deer i saw with a 4X12 scope 5 metres and could only see a scope full of gray on the 4 setting i shot and just scrape it somewhere few drop of blood, never found it, since that time in the thick it is 1.5... JP.
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At 5 meters with a Leupold 4.5-14x40 you would have a 1' FOV so the cross hairs shouldn't have been any less than 6" below his back or above his chest which should have resulted in a dead deer.

I am going to call "buckfever" on this one!!! :D

If you are hunting them at that range you should move to a squirt gun and drown them, no wasted meat!!! :eek:
 
Hunting scopes will rarely let you down from lack of magnification. Most horror stories occur when someone had the animal of a lifetime come by at close range and couldn't pick it up in the scope. My vote goes for the Leupold Vari-X III 1.75 x 6.
 
on the other hand , i've had a 4x12( that's the step up from 3x9) for years- made a better deal on it as it's considered an orphan or oddball compared to the 3x9; (everybody and his dog has one of those) the lens quality was better for only about 10 bucks more than the 3x9, even better if you could get something like an employee discount or sale.it's like the 308 winchester cartridges in hunting season- everybody buys the 150 for recoil, and DEER- the 180 just sits there; does the same job but better, but that's people for you
 
Eagleye said:
Never been handicapped with a straight 6x, and most of my hunting rifles have that on them, the excellent Leupold 6x42. However, any of the variables in the 2½-8 or 3½-10 would work fine. If you feel you must go up to the 4½-14, it will work as well, but is a bit much for most pure "hunting" rifles. JMHO, Eagleye.
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Eagle eye are you giving away your age speaking this way about a purest Long Range rifle with fixed 6X?
I had that first on my 7mmMag 30 years ago. A weaver fixed 6 with cross and post!
Those were the days when we made do with 6X on long range choppings, power lines, sitting shots, and a good fixed 4 for everything else. My BLR had a Redfield fixed 4 from 1987 till I sold it in February this year. Seems I'm falling back into the big varible range again, though I still keep a Japanese Banner 4X40 WA on my 7400 '06. one of the nicest scopes I have looked through as in feeling your there and not looking into a tunnel.
 
I use Leupold scopes. I think a 3x9x40 is more than enough for deer hunting, mine are usually set on 3 or 4 for most times. A fixed 4x40 is also very good, in my old eyes!
 
SuperCub said:
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Agreed... It happened to me on my first hunt.

It depends on the type of terrain you are hunting. Dense forest, the lower the better. Leupold 1.5x5. If antelope or prarrie then 3x10 will do you. After that it becomes a personal choice.

More of the guys in my camp are going to fixed power scopes.
 
I use Leupold on all my rifles, tried a couple other brands, not as clear.
For magnification, I prefer 3.5-10x40. I try to keep the reticule size divided by the max. magnification to 4. Not less. It tends to get darker at lower values. The more you magnify, the less light you will get for the same reticule size.
 
Nic3500 said:
I use Leupold on all my rifles, tried a couple other brands, not as clear.
For magnification, I prefer 3.5-10x40. I try to keep the reticule size divided by the max. magnification to 4. Not less. It tends to get darker at lower values. The more you magnify, the less light you will get for the same reticule size.
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Thats all I buy as well. Never had a problem since I bought my first one in 1982,
 
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