Gent's,
For those of you that hunt lot's of varmints, what magnification(s) do you find most useful? I mean, for a general purpose walking/truck gun and your average shot might be from say, 150 yards, and a long shot of 300 yards.
I'm thinking of moving UP in magnification, but don't want so much as to be cumbersome or too specialized for all-around use.
(A Luepold 6.5x20 is beckoning to me...)
High magnification = precise shot placement, but harder to hold still.
Low(er) magnification = better field of view, but small critters at longer ranges are harder to pin point.
I've been shooting a 3x9 on my bone stock Rem. M700 in .222 Rem.,
and 4.5x14 on my Ruger #1 in .22-250, and finally 6x18 on my .204... Interestingly, that's the order I got them in.
I don't think you need to go up in magnification, but
RESOLUTION.
You have good scopes with more than adequate magnification. But those scope are not the best available. I personally don't use anything over 16x. But I use German optics like S & B and Zeiss V/MV. I've never had a problem seeing anything through my scope that I have spotted with either a spotting scope or my bins. My spotter is Leica and my Bins are Zeiss FLs. So I'm seeing a lot of stuff others don't.
