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6X fixed. I really prefer fixed power scopes. Dang,,,, what do you do, shoot animals with that or just drop it on 'em? lol
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My hunting rifles wear 6x Leupolds. I prefer it.
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TOugh to beat a Tikka T3x 30-06 with a 6x S&B sitting on it for all around deer and possibly Elk Hunting.
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I started using a 4x and 6x in probably 2004. Haven't killed any big game with a variable since 2003.
I was shooting a 3 gun match saturday and while getting going on a stage the RO asked me to make any necessary adjustments to my optics. Sort of grinned inside. I don't know how to adjust the 3x Leupold.
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I started with a fixed 4 power at age 14. That was a long time ago and I only have one variable but it's always at 6x. My last new scope was a fixed 6x. Where I hunt 6x really works well.
This is a little off the topic but I recently found a nice old Weaver 4x with a crosshair dot. I love that dot, wish I had found one years ago. I am hoping to find another one for an old Rem. 760 but they seem to be popular in the "vintage" scope market.
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Mule Deer, Were you the guy who came up with one of my favorite lines, "How small are your deer anyway?"
I can see them just fine with 4X as far as I care to shoot. Though the last couple hunts I used a 6mm Rem with a 4-12X (set up for varmints obviously) because I really like the rifle. Scope on 4 or 6X.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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MCH,
The "missing 5%" is due to rifles that, for whatever reason, don't have scopes on 'em at the moment. Rodger!
Eat Fish, Wear Grundens, Drink Alaskan.
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nighthawk,
Ha! Can't remember writing that, but my friend D'Arcy Echols, the well-known custom riflemaker, once phoned me and opened the conversation with, "Just how small are the #$%^* elephants we hunt these days?" A customer wanted D'Arcy to build a .458 Lott that grouped both softs and solids into half an inch at 100 yards.
I once did mention that today's deer are now apparently the size of prairie dogs, because so many deer hunters believe they need half-inch rifles.
Apparently that includes me. Last fall I hunted mule deer with two rifles, both chambered for trendy 6.5mm rounds. One was capable shooting 1" 3-shot groups at 300 yards, and the other capable of putting 5 shots into 1/2" at 100 yards. I killed a buck with each rifle, one at 101 yards and the other at 159.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
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nighthawk,
Ha! Can't remember writing that, but my friend D'Arcy Echols, the well-known custom riflemaker, once phoned me and opened the conversation with, "Just how small are the #$%^* elephants we hunt these days?" A customer wanted D'Arcy to build a .458 Lott that grouped both softs and solids into half an inch at 100 yards.
I once did mention that today's deer are now apparently the size of prairie dogs, because so many deer hunters believe they need half-inch rifles.
Apparently that includes me. Last fall I hunted mule deer with two rifles, both chambered for trendy 6.5mm rounds. One was capable shooting 1" 3-shot groups at 300 yards, and the other capable of putting 5 shots into 1/2" at 100 yards. I killed a buck with each rifle, one at 101 yards and the other at 159. Plan for the worst, take the best!
Eat Fish, Wear Grundens, Drink Alaskan.
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Almost every scope on my hunting rifles are 6X. My few variables are usually set on 6X.
I cant think of a time over the last 62 years that I wished I would have had a variable. Of course my Varmint rifles have variables.
Ken Yup.
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I had a 3X Leupold on my ,375 for years and never thought I was under scoped. Upon returning from my first Safari I replaced it with a 3-9X Trijicon. I really liked that illuminated green dot. On my next trip, I used the scope to it's variable power advantage. I really liked it. Carry it around at 3X though.
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Apparently that includes me. Me too, me too. It's just fun. Present favorite deer rifle is a 6mm Rem commercial Mauser set up primarily for varminting. I'll claim ½ but it's probably closer to 1. Truth is I like it because it's easy to carry and easy to shoot. Actually the sporterized Springfield my gunsmith uncle built for my grandfather with a full figured Fajen stock and a 4X Daylite scope (amazingly dim compared to even today' cheap scopes) works just fine in South Dakota. Shot my first deer with it. But today I think it needs wheels.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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