Age is showing me: It takes more Xs now than it did then.
Through my twenties I killed tons of schitt with a 2.5-7x32 Weaver V7 on a Win 670 30-06. Ground squirrels out to 300 yds.......not a problem. Deer? Elk? I never wished for more glass.
Today at the range, at 300 yds, I found the resolution on a Leupie VX3i 3.5-10x40 lacking. A Vortex Viper at 16X was barely adequate for the task. But some of that should be blamed on the targets chosen. The target was a bit complex. A plain black bull would have served better.
