2-7x scopes are a scope for woodland hunters
I'll open my freezer when I get home to tell my whitetail that he had it all wrong. Should have been in dark wooded country, not the open range field where I killed him.
While I'm at it, I'll aplogize to all paper shooters for the 1/2 inch groups I shoot on 7 power with this little scope. I'll pick up some "big scopes" to "shrink groups".
Sheesh
Sheesh indeed.
Why all this time, the benchrest and varmint communities have been spending extra on fancy 20x+ scopes when they could have been using your 2-7x to get the same groups!
FWIW, my last whitetail was taken with a set of Williams iron sights. They weren't the best tool for the job, but they sufficed.
Discounting the need for magnification to kill whitetails with a large vital area at various ranges is one thing, but discounting the value of magnification to allow shooters to shrink groups or hit smaller targets is rather dubious.Not all of us are Jimmy Stewart from Winchester 73, able to shoot postage stamps off of washers with our buckhorn sights.