Beware of mounting the astronomy telescopes on your elk rifle.
A young man in my group had the misfortune of having his scope cranked up to max zoom. His wasn't even that powerful - 3-10 or something. When an elk trotted close by in a very small clearing he could find only hair or branches in his sights. I was grateful he had restraint enough not to shoot and unknown patch of hair.
Young man needs a little more education. Sounds like he got some that day...
Happened to a fella hunting with me this past yr for elk. He was a first time elk hunter and he had if I remember right 4.5x-14x40 scope on his rifle. We started into the timber and I said crank your scope down to 6x. Anyhow several hours later I'm whispering elk get ready to shoot his reply I can't see it he tried and tried so I ended up shooting it! I later asked did you turn your scope down like I said too? He goes no I didn't lol..
That happened to one of my partners last year. I stepped around a tree and there was a nice mulie buck under yds from me. I already had my deer to I grabbed him to show it to him. He kept dinking around until the deer ran. It didn't go far before it stopped in some quakies to look at us. He took forever to shoot. He later said he couldn't find it in the scope. Yup, he had it cranked up to 9.
