Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Why so many scopes that suck?

It is.
I don't understand the fascination with long range deer hunting.
If you have called strutting turkeysyou will understand the excitement of bringing your game in close. With deer, you can rattle them in or hunt the scrapes. Other ways to get close. It is a real thrill. When I was younger we walked up our deer in the chained cedar and shot them in motion.
Todays scopes are too big for that or have reticles which are rather complicated for close in shooting. I guess you can use a red dot but I don't really care for them.
I don't need big objective lenses as our deer are as lazy as me and don't start moving until about 8:00am. Now the big ones do come out right at dusk but it is more to go find their beds and kick them out.
I don't need fast focus or all matter of dots and lines in the view.
I only need a 2x or 3x or the traight 4x such as this Burris Short Mag. A 1.5-4 or 5x variable is fine. The Weaver V-3 is hard to beat.
There is a market for after market dots and cross hairs. Maybe some will fill the void.
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