Thanks MD, you have a definite point, last evening at dusk i took the 270 out back and had a seat on the firewood trailer, looked at some 150 weight red and black calves at 200 and 245 yards, i could have pulled off the shots in the open field with receiver peep, the calves in the fencerow cedars and shadows would have neen NO shot at all with iron sights.
I turned the little Burris up to 5X, could see plain as day, damn sure something to think about, firearms safety of course first and foremost, but, we are afterall out on any hunt there to "kill"
