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I signed a peace treaty many years ago in which I agreed to not ride horses any more and they agreed not to try to drown me, trample me, clothesline me, or bite me. It has worked out well. I can not give advice as asked but I can tell you that after 50 plus years hunting elk, quidding dudes for 9 of those years, I would not be caught dead using large turrets or scopes for that matter. Way too much to go wrong for that once per season chance at an elk. I saw many failures of rifle and scopes over the years. Big scope are far easier to get knocked out of alignment and turrets I assume would be the same. My serious hunting rifles are scoped with fixed power Leupold scopes with proper rugged scope mounts. Scope mounts are mostly horrid design and prone to failure these days.