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I have found it pretty easy to wingshoot gamebirds with a low-X variable on the lowest magnification--just as it's easy to wingshoot with a "red dot" or other non-magnifying optical sight. Which is why I had local super-gunsmith John McLaughlin make these claw mounts out of Talley steel bases, and fitted a 1-4x20 Leupold to my Sauer 16x16/6.5x57R. When hunting birds/big game I set it on 1x, and it works fine when wingshooting or close-range big game. But it also works fine when shooting big game at longer ranges when turned up, and there's often time then. Took my pronghorn buck this year at 220 yards with the scope on 4x, which worked fine.