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
