Originally Posted by smokepole
No doubt about it. Any tool you can name that's versatile and can be used in a lot of different situations won't be ideal for applications at each end of the spectrum.


Well said.

On an all-purpose big game rifle a 6x will do everything it needs to do “well enough” even if a relatively few things perfectly.

Life is about trade offs.

The fact that this Gen Xer can run counter to Cumminscowboy makes it almost perfect. Icing on the cake...