Don't even look at something through your damn scope until you know exactly what it is.
When shooting colony varmints, nobody is gonna have a spotter set up. Maybe binos. Maybe.
It’s just not practical and 95% of varmint hunters are using their scopes to ID targets and doing it safely without huge losses of human life regardless of what the fire might think.
I don't care if it is practicle or not. A person doesn't necessarily need optics to 100% ID something they're looking at. Prairie dog colonies often fit this scenario. So can other critters. The groundhog story above wasn't one of those sitations, for whatever reason. Bad eyesight, inexperience, unfamiliar terrain, whatever.
Apologies to the OP for getting off topic.
