Some years ago I decided to see for myself if 6x was a "handicap" at close range... did all my hunting for several years with variables set on 6x. Killed a couple bull elk at 50 yards, as well as a variety of other stuff, and concluded 6x is about as "right" for a fixed X, general purpose scope as I can imagine for my kind of hunting.

Personally I like the trim, lighter 6x36 over the 6x42... with dots of course.

Aside, only scope I ever had fail was a 2-7x33 Leupold on top of a 338 WM... reticle broke. Leupold had it turned around fixed NC inside a week for the elk opener. Leupold's Customer Service is the real deal...


“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery