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Light weight scope for 6-800 yards
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<blockquote data-quote="Rich Coyle" data-source="post: 1598191" data-attributes="member: 70559"><p>I'm beginning to think the guys who bring up pointing a gun at people are the guilty ones. As far as "glassing" no one here as advocating "glassing" with the scope. A scope is meant for generating money for the manufacturer. What one uses it for is up to them. I use my scope to verify I want to shoot the critter I found with my binocs or happen to see with my un-aided eye. There's no way I would take a fixed power scope on any hunt, much less a high dollar hunt.</p><p></p><p>A friend of mine accompanied his friend on a goat hunt. He brought his 6 1/2-20X scope along. They found a few billies with the 7X binoculars. Once the hunter decided on the one he wanted he switched to his fixed rifle scope and made the shot. "Why'd you shoot that one<strong>!</strong>?" was my friends immediate response to the shot. "It's the one I wanted," he said. The one you wanted walked over to the left while you picked up your rifle. The one you shot came out from behind that rock on the right." If he had enough magnification he would have realized the one he wanted was not the one in his sight picture.</p><p></p><p>I found a nice looking buck with my 8X binoculars on one hunt. I could see the antlers were wider than the ears, but could not tell if it had four points on both sides. I brought up the 5-25X52 and turned up the scope until I could make out it did in fact have four on both sides. After I killed it I checked the magnification setting: 12X. A fixed 6X or a fixed 8X or a fixed 10X would not have worked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rich Coyle, post: 1598191, member: 70559"] I'm beginning to think the guys who bring up pointing a gun at people are the guilty ones. As far as "glassing" no one here as advocating "glassing" with the scope. A scope is meant for generating money for the manufacturer. What one uses it for is up to them. I use my scope to verify I want to shoot the critter I found with my binocs or happen to see with my un-aided eye. There's no way I would take a fixed power scope on any hunt, much less a high dollar hunt. A friend of mine accompanied his friend on a goat hunt. He brought his 6 1/2-20X scope along. They found a few billies with the 7X binoculars. Once the hunter decided on the one he wanted he switched to his fixed rifle scope and made the shot. "Why'd you shoot that one[B]![/B]?" was my friends immediate response to the shot. "It's the one I wanted," he said. The one you wanted walked over to the left while you picked up your rifle. The one you shot came out from behind that rock on the right." If he had enough magnification he would have realized the one he wanted was not the one in his sight picture. I found a nice looking buck with my 8X binoculars on one hunt. I could see the antlers were wider than the ears, but could not tell if it had four points on both sides. I brought up the 5-25X52 and turned up the scope until I could make out it did in fact have four on both sides. After I killed it I checked the magnification setting: 12X. A fixed 6X or a fixed 8X or a fixed 10X would not have worked. [/QUOTE]
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