Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Vortex discontinued the 2-7x33 Viper. Why??

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.

I'd pay the extra back to the old price for HD glass.

I can see why they discontinued a 2-7. Honestly, I don't know many guys who use them, most use 3-9's or higher. That said, having had a few 2-7's myself I really don't like them either. The only time I could see them being useful is for super close range shots. I never have any desire for anything less than 3x, and 98% of the time I never use less than 4x, but there are a lot of cases on the bench where I can certainly benefit from more than 7x, or even more than 9x. I just really don't see the point to a 2-7, because while it can get the job done, it seems like there is something that can get it done better for just about every situation.