My favorite scopes are in the 2.5 to 9 power range. I have many others with higher magnification. I guess it just comes down to whatever trips my trigger on any given day. I too grew up in the era of "well the fixed 4 power or the 3-9 power worked for us for years". However, I just don't seem to remember having the options in the 70s and 80s that we do today. I speculate that if we did, we would have had the same distribution of different magnification ranges and objective sizes among hunters and shooters that we do today.

To answer the question posited by the OP in his op, "no, however, some do".


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