...but you would probably not be using high magnification at night.
Actually, that's a common misconception. Most of my moonlight shots are at 8-10x and sometimes higher. You need magnification to discern detail at night. For example, a 150 or 175 yard shot on a hog in daylight is a piece of cake with 3x or 4x. But at night, you'd have an extremely difficult time at those lower magnifications and likely couldn't tell for certain if the animal was broadside, quartering, etc. -- or even if it's a hog at all and not a dog or calf.
