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On my last AR build, I put a 2-7x32 scope on it for a general purpose gun. It’s in 5.56. I’m considering using it this winter for coyote hunting. The farm I hunt could present some shots that would be a max of around 300 yards. Would the 2-7x32 be sufficient or should I step up to something with more magnification?

One of my favorite coyote calling scopes is a 2.5-8x36 and is always at 2.5x when I start a stand, and your 7x is plenty for 300yds.
I have made the mistake before of using a 6.5x20 scope and having a coyote show up at 25yds and 6.5x is just too much
Think what you have is just fine

I use a strait 6x and it works great even when 1 comes in close.

Might work for you but not so well for others JMO

I used a 2-7x28 up until about 5 years ago.

It worked fine on a few coyotes up to just short of 400.

A 2-7 would make a decent coyote calling scope. I do quite a bit of calling coyotes and one of my guidelines is a minimum of 40' FOV on the bottom end. I use a number of 1-4 scopes on combination guns and am good to 300 with them if the round is capable. I've killed five since the first of the month, the longest was 200+ yards with a 1.5-4 scope and the rest broke cover under 30 yards and were killed moving with two less than 20 yards.

I built a new lightweight 20 Practical this year and it is wearing a new Leupold Freedom 1.5-4x20mm with the PigPlex reticle and I am really liking it.


My little sako 222 Rem has a Leupold compact 2-7


My 22-204 has had a Sightron II 1.5-6x40 since 2006 and I'd never change it.

My 22-250 has an Athlon 2-12 scope with a BDC reticle that is working well, I keep it on 2x until I need more, I haven't had to take it off 2x yet to kill a coyote

Why not simply take it out someplace and view a coyote-sized target at whatever range at which you expect to shoot? I think I have a paper deer target that’s about half-sized. Something like that should work.

If you just want an excuse to buy something (something I’m VERY familiar with), there are a lot of 2 or 2.5-10s out there.

If ya aint shootin off bipods its perfect.

BTW, it's what mine runs.

Just curious what a bipod has to do with it?

I find a bipod on a coyote calling rifle a pain. Awkward to carry, if the grass is over a few inches high, your stand is in the brush or rocks they make it very difficult to change positions when a coyote comes from an unexpected direction.

A 2-7x scope will work on coyotes. I call them a lot. My rifles that I use for coyote calling all have 4-12x or higher magnification on them. When calling the scope is set at 4-6x but it gets turned up to 12x to take longer shots.

For me, less Xs is better offhand.

Run a bipod on my chuck stuff of higher mag scope.
Coyote rifle I dont.
2-7x on an AR is about perfect for where we hunt.