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Tomk, I bet that 8x56 S&B is like looking at a full moon at dark. I would call it a very specialized scope but a good one. powdr

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Hi powdr, hope you are doing well.

Hey, this is an "extreme" thread...:)

Actually it has a little more utility than that...for me. Decided to quit flirting with it and wring it out--so hunted with it seven days, all day. I put it on a light rifle, so it looked worse than it was to carry. My pard was amused...:) I wasn't really hampered still-hunting by the 8x, eyeballing does as if they were bucks--it was kinda grim buck-wise in our hunting area of the UP this year...but the yotes were down and hopefully the wolves take a hit, too.

On the 56mm I wouldn't have an issue with 9 or 10x for sitting. The 6 EP works well for me, too, as MD covered. Most of this stuff he's been over...multiple times. And on another covered point, prefer fixed w/wire due to fewer lenses.

The FFP non-illuminated variables that are the cat's ass mid-range up have miniscule looking reticles at the low end. I do better with a bold reticle on the low setting for jumpers and runners.

Thus, happening to have more than one rifle, I use another scoped more appropriately for still-hunting and for tracking if there is snow. But for sitting set-ups, the 8x56 was excellent. fwiw...


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my meostar 3-12x56 RGD sure is bright in low light

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Originally Posted by haverluk
By far the scope I have used for extreme low light has been the Zeiss Victory 1.5-6x42 with an illuminated #60 reticle.

I have hunted boar in Europe at night without the aid of artificial light very successfully with the above glass.

This boar was taken legally in the middle of the night as was the monster in my avatar.
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I have half a dozen scopes like that but not illuminated, and I just put a 2-8x42 Duralyt on a crossbow until next summer when it gets swapped for one of the 1.5-6x42s. It doesn't take much light for them to be fully useful all night long. They are by far my favorite scopes for deer hunting here in Minnesota.

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