I would happy with just my 6x 42 leopould if limited to one big game scope, and I have a large variety of scopes of varying powers to choose from. My only two scopes that have failed were variables and one was a new VX III 1.5 x 5 that is recomended as the dangerous game scope by a lot of people. It fell apart inside after about 40 heavy loads with a 250 grain partition from my ruger m77 338 wm. Based on my 40 plus years of hunting and living in a remote corner of B.C. I leave my variables set at 6x and unless I am settling in for a 300 + yard shot that seems to be the setting that most of my big game is shot at.
