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Being that I have been putting in for Cali sheep there for 25+ years to no avail, with the other big 3 still to go, I doubt I'll ever even try for the main deer draws.
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Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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I gotta feeling I’m gonna draw a sheep tag this year Ted, and win a moose super tag!! 😂😂
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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Pretty sure I’ll be hunting sheep this year in NM.
And probably a Wyoming deer Super Tag.
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I loved having the Meopta MeoPro 6X42 on my .375 H&H for a summer of hog hunting. Zero issues after putting about 60 rounds under it. Great fun knowing that I can get on target quickly and accurately with this scope. Glass is very good and excellent low light performance with 42mm Objective and 1-inch tube. Meopta also has 7X56 and 8x56 riflescopes in their MeoStar line which are truly amazing in low light situations. I now have the MeoStar R1 1.5-6x42 RD sitting on my .375 H&H and doubt I will ever take it off.
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"Working on a Kaps now. Waiting on a phone call from the dealer. Seems to be a good balance of quality, weight, and reticle. Pretty sure it’s going on my Fieldcraft if he comes through with it."
Pappy, I've been very tempted by the Kaps, heard nothing but good about them. Please give us a full report, if you get it, RJ
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"Working on a Kaps now. Waiting on a phone call from the dealer. Seems to be a good balance of quality, weight, and reticle. Pretty sure it’s going on my Fieldcraft if he comes through with it."
Pappy, I've been very tempted by the Kaps, heard nothing but good about them. Please give us a full report, if you get it, RJ
Don’t expect me to nail it to an anvil for testing the tracking or toss it off an overpass onto an interstate. I might do a simple box test, and definitely will check its low-light chops the usual way, by looking at the trunks of my neighbor’s Leyland Cypress trees at the end of legal light to check if the reticle is visible. Don’t laugh, more than one scope has failed that low-light check. The Kaps comes with either a No.4 or a post with cross-bars. Either is fine with me, as long as the bars come close enough to the center to actually help aim. Again, more than one has flunked that test as well.
What fresh Hell is this?
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Have straight 6's on all my hunting rifles and my calling rifle.
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6x Meopta with the #4 reticle. Bob Had same and got one for Dad- loved it. Also an M8 Leupold, Burris FF2 6x40 - all #4's and a Weaver K6. Since getting the VX3 a few years back I found it was as bright or brighter in low light and am loving having the wider field of view of 3x or so. Thinking no more fixed 6's for me after a decade or two of nothing but.
When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are something to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honors are something to be ashamed of . Confucius
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I've got one, a 6x36 M8. It's on a 300 win mag that I've killed some stuff with. I hunt Wyoming so really don't have any thick stuff. That said though I've shot a few head of game at spitting ranges and never had a problem. Including running ones. My brother shot his first elk with it at probably 20 feet. He just threw the rifle up and shot. Unreal . It has been on that rifle for close to 17 years and I've never adjusted the zero. Lot's of horseback miles and bouncing around a truck cab or on top of a 4wheeler. I have never looked through it at a animal and said dang I wish this had crisper optics .
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Much as I truly like the 6X, the dirty little secret is that lurking inside every 3-9X (etc) there's a 6x... There's a 6x lurking inside of every 6x too. Funny thing is, though, there's no 3 or 9 in there. That's apparently tough to grasp Not difficult to grasp in the least. I don't need 3x, I don't need 9x and I don't need moving parts and a longer scope Apparently that too is tough to grasp
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The rifle the boys use has a Weaver K6 mounted. I like the idea of fixed scopes for kids, much less for them to fiddle with and the sight picture is always the same.
I took possibly my best whitetail with it at the furthest I've shot one.
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For many of the same reasons I see folks espousing the fixed scopes, I have finally shifted every scope I own to FFP.
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Of all my scopes I own the Burris FF!! 6x is my favorite! The other variable scopes I own are all set at 6x and left there.
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Longer scopes seem easier to fit a variety of rifles.
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Much as I truly like the 6X, the dirty little secret is that lurking inside every 3-9X (etc) there's a 6x... This is DLS, and I approve this message.
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Much as I truly like the 6X, the dirty little secret is that lurking inside every 3-9X (etc) there's a 6x... This is DLS, and I approve this message. Of all of 1.5-6, 2-7, 3-9, 4-12, etc I ever had, they all had a 6x, and were usually at least as good at 6x as my fixed 6x’s. For all of the stuff you ‘can’ do with a fixed 6x, there’s something that does most of it better, at least to me. Which is why (and I’ll freely admit), I’ve only owned a few because of that. If I want a fixed power. 2.5, 3x, or 4x get more use for me around my turf.....but mine ain’t the same as the next guy.
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I had a Weaver K6 on my Kimber Montana 7mm08 for the last 10 years or so - simple & lightweight - very happy with it. Sold the Kimber recently and planning on putting the K6 on a LH Tikka T3x in 7mm08 which will be my next purchase.
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I've never missed without a AO, nor left wanting for anything less than 12x......
Are you shooting paper or rimfire silhouettes?
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